On this episode of HSJ Health Check, we unpick the pay deals — including a significant proposal on NHS managers’ salaries — as well as how they will be paid for and whether they will settle the NHS’s period of industrial strife. 

We also explore Rachel Reeves’ moves to review “new hospitals programme”; declare a £1.5bn NHS overspend; and her calls for tech-driven productivity reforms in the NHS.

Finance correspondent Henry Anderson talks through his latest findings on the huge spread of local system deficits, which have the biggest problems, and what NHS England is doing about it.

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