Daily Insight
Daily Insight is HSJ's digest of each day's most important stories and why they matter. It is sent in the morning, Tuesday to Friday.
Weekly Catch-up summarises the week's biggest health stories. If you have been out of the office or otherwise just too busy to keep up, HSJ's Friday afternoon catch-up will ensure you are still in the know.
On Monday morning, Daily Insight subscribers will also receive Steve Black's weekly column, The Mythbuster.
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Daily Insight: Rearranging Titanic’s deck chairs
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
The mythbuster: It might be Christmas, but let’s not rely on miracles
Too many NHS strategies skip crucial operational detail, relying on miracle thinking instead of confronting today’s problems and sequencing real, workable steps to achieve their goals, writes Steve Black
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Light touches, tech tragedies and departing chiefs
Your essential update on health for the week
Daily Insight: NICE knowing you
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
Daily Insight: Claws retracted
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
Daily Insight: ‘Light touch’ review deals heavy blow
The must-read stories and debates in health policy and leadership.
Daily Insight: Back to the noughties
The mythbuster: Why NHS improvement programmes don’t work
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Strike warnings, Trump cards and finance forecasts
Daily Insight: A ‘cruel and calculated’ campaign
Daily Insight: Six months in, who’s slipping?
Daily Insight: Pharma’s Trump card
Daily Insight: Will they follow the script?
The mythbuster: It’s the management, stupid
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Brief encounters, EPR dangers and funding downers
Daily Insight: Exit costs shifted forward
Daily Insight: ‘Flat funding’ in disguise
Daily Insight: The quiet revival of private finance
Daily Insight: After Mackey, who leads next?
The mythbuster: What Wales can teach us about value
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Cash warnings, premature exits and bailout deadlines
Daily Insight: Sickest patients still waiting
Daily Insight: NHSE sets bailout exit
Daily Insight: Now you see him
Daily Insight: Only enough cash for one day
The mythbuster: Much better, but still room for improvement
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Big asks, long goodbyes and very short journeys
Daily Insight: Strike help comes with conditions
Daily Insight: Personal tragedy meets financial reality
Daily Insight: Sadly, you can’t just scrap the BCF
Daily Insight: Keeping the CQC show on the road
The mythbuster: Shallow and naive thinking will not fix NHS productivity
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Public apologies, critical incidents and unsafe buildings
Daily Insight: Rider on the storm
Daily Insight: EPR hitches worsen critical incident
Daily Insight: Tip of the iceberg
Daily Insight: Personal abuse of CEOs set to ratchet up
The mythbuster: This year’s planning guidance is better but still deeply flawed
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Safety failures, welfare pledges and pivotal moments
Daily Insight: Shared leadership spreads
Daily Insight: The high cost of clean air
Daily Insight: The space hospitals can’t cut any more
Daily Insight: A deficit of safety
The mythbuster: A classic tale of NHS process failure
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: EPR scramble, training inequity and subco switch
Daily Insight: ‘Unselfish’ CQC boss quits
Daily Insight: Improved productivity picture fading fast
Daily Insight: Subco marches on
Daily Insight: Clash of the EPR players
The mythbuster: It does not matter that Streeting’s new adviser has no health experience
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: ECIST ceases to exist, clicks beat calls and uplift is a downer
Daily Insight: Patients in the driving seat
Daily Insight: Delayed discharge price tag revealed
Daily Insight: Pay uplift leaves some grounded
Daily Insight: ECIST ceases to exist
The mythbuster: Just say ‘no’ to demands for higher drug prices
Daily Insight: Scorched earth policy could devour all
Daily Insight: She’s coming for your ugly baby
Daily Insight: Time to leave the neighbourhood
Daily Insight: Has Labour got a soft centre?


















