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Revealed: Trusts that have not set maximum ambulance handover times
Seven trusts among the poorest performers for ambulance handovers have yet to to implement the flagship NHS England policy designed to tackle the problem.
Hospital group appoints first CEO
The newly-formed Norfolk and Waveney Hospitals Group has appointed its first chief executive.
Trust orders review into breast cancer services
A North East trust has begun a full review of its breast cancer services after finding unexplained variation in its surgical practices.
Revealed: Best and worst trusts to work at, according to bank staff
NHS bank staff are almost always more likely to recommend their employer as a good place to work than permanent staff.
ICBs told to get tighter grip on GP referrals
Integrated care boards have been told to significantly strengthen the drive to ensure that potential GP referrals are first scrutinised by hospital consultants.
Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
Trusts must cover their own redundancy costs caused by delays to projects in the New Hospital Programme, despite hopes they would be covered centrally, HSJ has learned.
Details of new cap on ICB staff spend revealed
Each of England’s seven regions must ensure pay spend across their integrated care boards is reduced to an average of £18.76 per head of weighted population, HSJ has learned.
Trust’s A&E service jumps from inadequate to good after site move
An emergency department previously criticised by inspectors has been upgraded from “inadequate” to “good” by the Care Quality Commission following its move to a new site.
NHSE director sent into consultant-revolt trust
An NHS England director has been appointed chair of a specialist trust where consultants forced out his predecessor.
Mental health A&E programme ‘not far away’
A wave of “mental health A&Es” could be built alongside or close to existing emergency departments, HSJ has learnt.
Retired CEO to chair specialist trust
A long-serving trust chief executive who retired at the end of last year has become the chair of one of the UK’s best known specialist trusts.
Crucial emergency care system to be scrapped by NHSE within months
An IT system that prevents 999 call-handling services from being overwhelmed is set to be withdrawn by NHS England in an effort to save money.
Streeting accused of prematurely hailing success of elective scheme
Ministers have jumped the gun by claiming a flagship elective programme has been “busting through the backlog at twice the speed”, an independent analysis has concluded.
Key recovery target hit
Ambulance services hit a crucial “interim” target for responding to the bulk of emergency calls last month, and showed marked improvements for the most serious category of incidents.
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in February 2025, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
ICBs to impose ‘minimum waiting times’ for services
NHS England has proposed introducing “minimum waiting times” for certain elective specialties as system leaders grapple with how to balance clinical needs and a real terms funding cut for local services.
Revealed: ICBs divided on ‘neighbourhood teams’
HSJ analysis reveals a major split across England on the right size and shape for neighbourhood teams, which are a key part of government’s reform ambitions.
Target date for NHSE abolition revealed
National leaders are targeting October 2026 for the abolition of NHS England and consolidation of its functions into the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ understands.
NHSE chiefs think A&E recovery plan ‘lacks ambition’
NHS England’s new leadership has criticised near-completed drafts of the long-awaited national recovery plan for urgent and emergency care, with senior figures concerned it “lacks ambition”, HSJ has learned.
ICB told to re-run tender after rule breaches
An integrated care board has been told to re-run part of a contract award after breaching procurement rules while choosing a new provider to manage earwax removal services.
ICB seeks first GP and dentist integration
Revealed: The systems set to gain and lose hundreds of millions
Trust must pay £256k to director accused of ‘playing race card’
NHSE urged not to scrap training scheme
High-profile trust to merge with neighbour
Social care must stay ‘distinct’ from NHS, says Streeting
Exclusive: Former hospital chief set to run DHSC
Chris Hopson to leave NHSE
‘Hasty’ hospital closure plan criticised by ICB-commissioned report
Streeting greenlights eight reconfigurations
Push for national deal on doctors’ overtime pay
ICB cuts could fund ‘neighbourhood development’
£6bn underlying deficit ‘could derail 10-Year Plan’
Streeting adviser to join NHSE as strategy chief
Group trust names two acting CEOs
Supplier suing trust after rival’s ‘lucrative proposal’
Hospitals to cut 800 jobs
£150m ‘wasted’ planning for ‘paused’ new hospitals
Union standoff with Mackey over subcos expansion
Last-minute ICS bailouts ‘fuel distrust with NHSE’
Trust CEO off work after clash with chair
Trust told it could not exclude race row firm from tender
Provider’s board clearout sparks ‘real shock’
Don’t call NHSE ‘the biggest quango in the world’, says new chair
Cap on elective care funding to be scrapped
Revealed: The ICB staff targeted for redundancy
CQC tells trust to move care of sick babies
Departing NHSE boss ‘calls out’ A&E variation
‘Big consolidation’ of ICBs coming, says new NHSE chief exec
Mackey: I will stick up for the NHS
Elon Musk offers Streeting help on NHS cuts
NHSE reveals new digital chief to ‘maintain stability’
NHS ‘should give councils more grief’ on health
ICS accused of ‘systemic culture of revising plans’
Cancer patients missed chance for treatment due to 100-day waits, trust admits
Revealed: ICBs spending the most and least on staffing
Five systems forecast £300m overspend next year
Zero tolerance ‘won’t fix sexual harassment of staff’
Trusts with persistently high baby deaths revealed
NHSE vows to end ‘bombardment’ of trusts