All Wes Streeting articles – Page 4
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NewsExclusive: Trusts will decide what work gets done on strike days, not BMA
Trusts, with the support of NHS England, will determine what care is delivered during the impending five-day resident doctors strike – not the British Medical Association, Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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NewsForty-two areas to pioneer neighbourhood health
The government and NHS England will select 42 places to lead the rollout of neighbourhood health and shape how it will be operationalised.
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CommentManagers want to be as accountable as doctors
As the NHS prepares for sweeping reform, regulation and development of its managers must be central to lasting, effective change
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CommentThe NHS must work with charities if it wants to succeed
A decade of preventable deaths shows why only bold, cross-sector collaboration can build a healthier, fairer England, explains Laurie Lee
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: NHS plan sets out bold new patient safety agenda
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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News‘Irrelevant’ training will stop next year, vows 10-Year Plan
The government’s 10-Year Health Plan has vowed to stop “repetitive” and “irrelevant” training that takes up NHS staff time.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: It’s not the tech plan, but there’s a lot of tech in it
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Not in the Plan
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentAs a hospital group chair, it’s obvious we should invest in the social determinants of health
Targeting poverty and debt through advice services could transform NHS outcomes and cut health costs, writes Matthew Swindells
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NewsExclusive: NICE to remove approval from scores of drugs for first time
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will withdraw its backing for a large number of drugs and other interventions which now offer poor value for money in an unprecedented move set to be revealed in tomorrow’s 10-Year Health Plan, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Performance-related pay proposed in 10-Year Plan
Government will create a new “opt-in” alternative NHS staff employment contract, to offer pay-for-performance bonuses and “ultra flexible” working, according to drafts of the 10-Year Health Plan.
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News‘Robustly manage’ staff who ‘lack compassion and openness’, NHSE tells trusts
Trust chief executives have been told to “robustly manage” staff who repeatedly “demonstrate a lack of compassion or openness” over failings in maternity care.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The ‘drug dealer model’
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentThe patient voice is being silenced
Patients are being shut out of the NHS conversation, as lived experience and recovery support are increasingly ignored
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LeaderWe have seen the government’s 10-Year Health Plan: it is a mess
The latest draft of the government’s 10-Year Health Plan is based on weak assertions about funding, and fails to address the practicality of reform, says HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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NewsDHSC staffing spend up under Labour
Spending on staff at the Department of Health and Social Care and seven other central agencies has increased by more than 10 per cent since Labour came to power, analysis shows.
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NewsUp to ten trusts face ‘national maternity investigation’
Wes Streeting today announced a “national investigation” into maternity care at up to 10 trusts which will report by Christmas.
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NewsManager pay rise must wait for new performance scores
Trusts and integrated care boards must withhold this year’s pay rise for senior managers until their performance segment under NHS England’s new assessment framework is published.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: For safer maternity care, we need action, not words
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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LeaderThe NHS reformers must now prove their case
To visit the 2025 NHS ConfedExpo was like attending the kind of music festival which seeks to celebrate a previous decade – in this case, the first of this century