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NewsExclusive: Trust admits to harming 200 patients
Almost 200 patients suffered harm after a major teaching trust failed to manage its neurological waiting lists effectively, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsGovernor claims he was intimidated ‘for reposting HSJ articles’
A governor has accused the leadership of a major hospital trust of seeking to “intimidate” him by launching a probe into his social media posts.
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NewsTrusts cancel joint staff service with neighbours
Three trusts have cancelled a joint occupational health service after a row over standards.
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NewsFresh delay as ICB staff await compulsory redundancy
Around 50 staff facing compulsory redundancy in an integrated care board cluster have complained of a two-month delay as they wait for NHS England to sign off their departures.
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NewsMentally ill men forced into prison to get a bed
Police are sending people in mental health crisis to prison when they should be in a secure hospital, with “devastating consequences”, inspectors have warned.
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NewsLead provider role creating ‘potential conflicts of interest’, review finds
A lack of clarity around lead provider and commissioner roles at a mental health trust collaborative is creating “potential conflicts of interest”, a review has found.
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NewsICBs told to redraw boundaries again
Integrated care board boundaries will be redrawn again after Andy Burnham pledged they would match new local government footprints by 2029.
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NewsWelsh government denies English hospital’s £20m demand
A Welsh health board is refusing to pay £21m as demanded by an English hospital trust in a cross-border funding dispute.
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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.