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NewsBaby safety concern trust gets national help
A maternity service which has had elevated neonatal mortality for several years has joined an NHS England programme for extra “support”, it has confirmed to HSJ.
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NewsNHSE region signs AI scribe deal covering 15 trusts
The NHS has launched its largest-ever regional deployment of ambient voice technology, covering 70,000 clinicians across 15 trusts and 1,239 GP practices.
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NewsRevealed: Biggest climbers and fallers on diagnostic waits
Eleven trusts recorded swings of more than 20 percentage points on the headline waiting target for diagnostic tests over the past year.
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NewsDispute flares up over health centre development
An integrated care board is in dispute with one of its primary care networks over a bid to convert a former police station into a health centre.
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NewsTrust takes £2m hit on flawed land sale
A trust was forced to pay £2m to exit a land sale – after realising that it might need the space and would have lost money on the deal.
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NewsRevealed: Promised ‘neighbourhood health centres’ already met requirements
Nearly all the first wave of “neighbourhood health centres” – currently being developed for launch by next year – were already doing the job required of the model, government documents reveal.
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NewsHeatwave shuts theatres and scanners
Theatres were shut and equipment broke down as the heatwave caused widespread disruption across the NHS’s ageing estate.
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NewsBiggest climbers and fallers in trust league table
Sharply divergent performance in the last quarter of 2025-26 saw dramatic movement within NHS England’s league table for acute trusts, with six providers moving up or down rankings by 30 places or more.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts sharing £86m prize for March A&E sprint
NHS England has revealed the trusts which will share an £86m prize pot for delivering improvements to A&E waiting times in March.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals with the most ‘red line’ 24-hour waits
At least one in 10 A&E patients wait more than 24 hours at many hospitals, despite NHS England telling trusts to adopt a “zero tolerance” approach to such long waits, new figures have revealed.
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NewsHospital accused of delaying ambulances to eliminate corridor care
A hospital trust has been accused of delaying the offloading of ambulance patients so it can maintain zero “corridor care”.
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News21 trusts ‘delivered year’s elective recovery in single month’
Twenty-one trusts delivered their entire 2025-26 elective improvement in March alone, analysis shows, prompting concerns about the “fragility and sustainability” of the NHS’s waiting list recovery.
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NewsSix ICBs chosen to lead specialised commissioning
Just one of the seven NHS England regions has yet to decide which organisation will host the patch’s joint commissioning of specialised and some other services.
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NewsIncrease in corridor care ‘haemorrhaging morale’, trust told
Governors at one of the largest trusts in the country have warned that moving patients from beds to chairs to free up space is a risk to staff and public morale.
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NewsTrusts expect to miss emergency care target
Four of England’s 10 ambulance trusts are expecting to miss the headline response time target for 2026-27, according to their plans for the year.
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NewsNew health minister appointed
Britain’s first female Sikh MP has been appointed as a health minister.
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NewsThree times more GPs leaving some ICBs
Some systems saw fully qualified GPs leave their roles at three times the rate of other patches last year, according to new figures.
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NewsMackey’s heir named number one trust CEO
The top two trust chief executives in the 12th edition of HSJ’s annual ranking of the most respected provider CEOs have taken very different routes to the summit.
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NewsHospital launches review of stillbirths
A trust whose maternity care is under scrutiny is launching a review of all stillbirths last year, it has confirmed to HSJ.
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NewsGP upgrades ‘stuck in layers of approval’
A string of bureaucratic barriers are still holding up development of buildings for primary and community care, multiple NHS and industry organisations have warned.