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CommentReeves needs to give the NHS time to make the most of its funding
There is a clear opportunity presented for the new government to publish the 2025-26 government spending plans alongside the Budget on 30 October and address the lack of long-term financial planning in the NHS, writes Charlotte Wickens
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CommentLabour’s inheritance on RTT waiting times
At the end of the last government, waiting times were bad but no longer getting worse.
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CommentWait list and wait times worsened again in May
A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data for the outgoing Conservative government
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CommentPrepare to clear your desks
Before he takes up an important political assignment, Julian Patterson offers a shamelessly unbalanced view of the outcome of the general election and what it will mean for HSJ readers
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CommentWait list and longest waits all worsen in last figures before election
The waiting list has grown since Rishi Sunak pledged it would fall, but his promise people would get care quicker has come true
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NewsConservatives promise to consult on disbarring managers
The Conservative Party has said it will consult on a disbarring scheme for NHS managers if it wins the general election.
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NewsGovernment must ‘direct officials’ to prioritise prevention, says ex-minister
Ministers must be “a lot stronger in directing officials” to prioritise prevention in health spending, a former Conservative health minister has said.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Return of the control totals
NHS England has announced incentives and penalties in a bid to improve the health system’s financial plans, so this week we discuss what the new regime involves and if it will make any difference to the national £3bn deficit.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the July election means for the NHS
Rishi Sunak took Westminster by surprise with a July election – this week’s podcast reveals what the campaign and timing mean for the health service; and how a new government might shape up.
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NewsBuilding a hospital ‘not difficult’, says re-elected mayor
A mayor is planning to launch a consultation to build a new hospital the government says he has no powers to build – claiming the project “doesn’t seem difficult”.
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NewsAtkins appointed health and care secretary
Victoria Atkins has been named as health and social care secretary, replacing Steve Barclay.
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CommentMental health is now barely acknowledged by this government
Mental health is barely being acknowledged by the government and must now be put firmly back on at the top of the healthcare policy agenda, writes Sean Duggan
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News‘Get stuck into ICSs’, Hewitt tells local leaders
NHS leaders ‘who might be hesitating about whether or not to really commit’ to their local integrated care system should ‘put aside all of those doubts [and] get stuck in’, Patricia Hewitt has claimed.
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CommentExclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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NewsMP says NHS ‘shambles’ is fault of ‘utterly useless senior managers’
A Conservative MP has blamed “far too many overpaid and utterly useless senior managers” for what he described as the “shambles of the NHS”.
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NewsExclusive: New hospitals could be required to have single patient rooms only
New hospitals may be required to have single patient rooms only, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTwo more ministers join DHSC
A former senior policy adviser and a paediatrician have been appointed as junior ministers at the Department for Health and Social Care.
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Daily InsightThe Primer: Sorting it out
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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NewsTruss plans ‘fewer layers of NHS management’
Tory party leadership frontrunner and potential prime minister Liz Truss has said she would ‘sort out’ pensions tax problems for doctors, and promised to empower clinicians by making the NHS less centralised.
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LeaderSteve Barclay is NHS leadership’s worst ‘nightmare’
Never has a politician arrived in the post of health secretary trailing a worse reputation among NHS leaders than Steve Barclay, writes Alastair McLellan.