All Wes Streeting articles – Page 2
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NewsExclusive: Mackey’s trust gets league table upgrade after last-minute data correction
The trust led by NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey was promoted from the third to the second “segment” of the new provider league table following a last-minute correction to one of the data points which underpin the rankings, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsUnions withdraw from pay review process
Most of the Agenda for Change trade unions have withdrawn from this year’s pay review process and instead urged the government to hold direct pay talks.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: ICB chiefs jump ship
Two more integrated care board chief executives have resigned this week, the latest in a string of departures as their role undergoes major change.
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NewsStreeting accused of ‘betrayal’ by maternity campaigners
A campaign group representing families involved in maternity failures says its members feel “completely betrayed” by the health and social care secretary, and are calling for greater scrutiny of national NHS decisions.
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CommentHow politicians took back control of the NHS, Part 2
In its first year in charge of the NHS after more than a decade on the sidelines, Labour triggered a revolution in how the service is run. Dave West asked insiders what drove the new government’s thinking, and what will come next. Part two of two. Read part one here.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: 141 Ten-Year Plan ‘test beds’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Caitlin Tilley.
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LeaderWhy Claire Murdoch quit
It is to the former national director for mental health Claire Murdoch’s credit that she stuck with her role for more than a year under the current government.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE director resigns, claiming politicians wanted ‘change at the top’
Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s national mental health director for the last nine years, has today resigned “with immediate effect”.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How to win the (NHS) league
The HSJ Health Check podcast returns this week, just as NHS England unveils new performance rankings for every trust in England.
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NewsTrusts’ ‘league table’ rankings revealed
NHS England has revealed its new “league table” rankings for every NHS trust, with hospitals in London scoring best and East of England the worst.
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CommentHow politicians took back control of the NHS, Part 1
In its first year in charge of the NHS after more than a decade on the sidelines, Labour triggered a revolution in how the service is run. Dave West asked insiders what drove the new government’s thinking, and what comes next. Part one of two.
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NewsExclusive: Spending freeze imposed after NHSE identifies £300m budget hole
The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinisters pressed for promised ‘independent workforce plan’
Government must deliver on its manifesto commitment to “regular, independent workforce planning” for health and social care, royal colleges and others warned Wes Streeting today.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Restructure hits deadlock in many ICBs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsStop letting down resident doctors, NHSE tells trusts
Trusts are to have new responsibilities for improving resident doctors’ working lives under a plan unveiled by NHS England today.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Details of maternity investigation revealed and ‘corridor care’ scrutinised
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentFlawed league tables risk confusion and harm
A flawed approach to the government’s new league tables for trusts risks rewarding the wrong things, say the chief executives of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation
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HSJ LocalInquiry delay ‘making CEOs look silly’
The lack of information given to trusts likely to be involved in a national maternity investigation due to complete this year is making leaders “look silly” in front of staff, a major trust chief executive has said.
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CommentAn NHS-only neighbourhood health service would be ruinously expensive
Community-led eye care is primed to be a much-needed win for the 10-Year Health Plan – so long as we are sensible about what we mean by “community”, writes Adam Sampson, CEO of the Association of Optometrists
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Nurses get tough
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.