All Health Service Journal articles in January 2025 – Page 2
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NewsCourt clears way for ICB to award £40m UCC contract
An integrated care board has been allowed to award a £40m urgent care centre contract to a new provider following a High Court judgment which marks the latest chapter in the commissioner’s ongoing legal row with its incumbent supplier.
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News‘Inadequate’ trust told to ensure it listens to staff
An ambulance trust has been told it needs to go further in its drive to improve, including that it listens to staff feedback.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Delivering the 10-year plan
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsElective funding ring-fence to be axed
The ring-fence around elective funding will be axed in 2025-26, officials have revealed.
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CommentThe government needs to explain to the public how care is going to change
The government’s forthcoming 10-Year Health Plan aims to address pressing challenges in health and care, focusing on recovery and reform. Key to its success will be empowering integrated care systems to lead change, aligning policy across sectors, and engaging the public in designing services, writes Annie Bliss
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NewsFormer Whitehall mandarin to chair hospital group
A hospital group has appointed a former senior Whitehall figure as its new chair.
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NewsTrust blames £1.8bn tender for going six months without board meeting
A community trust is set to go six months without a public board meeting – giving winter pressures and a large community services tender as its reasons.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Capital in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ InteractiveIs 2025 the year of the digital front door?
Digital technology has a big part to play in helping the NHS deliver the ambitions of the forthcoming 10-year plan and address immediate operational pressures, such as the need to reduce waiting times to access elective care. The 3 December HSJ summit, in association with IBM, looked at how this ...
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Penny Dash and David Nicholson on the 10-year plan
HSJ Health Check is joined by two of the most influential and experienced NHS leaders to talk about lessons for the government’s 10-year plan from their systems, and from the past.
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NewsNHSE awards £37.5m contract for digital services
NHS England has awarded a £37.5m contract to a tech consultancy firm to help develop the NHS.uk website for the next three years.
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NewsWe’re not complacent over finances, NHSE insists
NHS England has accused an influential Parliamentary committee of “factual inaccuracies” after MPs criticised national NHS officials for “complacency” over financial planning.
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NewsTen-year plan must be clear on implementation, not just vision, say Dash and Nicholson
The 10-year health plan must “be very clear on how [it] will be implemented” rather than just setting out a “vision”, two influential health leaders have told the HSJ podcast.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Ten years of unnecessary chemo?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingCarbon Copy: Old hospitals for longer
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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NewsDoctors protest trusts’ move to stop paying for breaks
Doctors have called for the immediate reversal of two trusts’ moves to stop paid breaks for locums who are not holding on-call bleeps.
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NewsCQC examining service which ‘gave 14 people unnecessary cancer treatment’
Fourteen patients have raised concerns they may have received unnecessary chemotherapy with “debilitating side effects” at the same hospital, some for a decade or more, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrust U-turns on axing service over funding cut
A hospital trust has agreed to keep running its sexual health service, despite a funding cut of nearly £500,000.
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News‘Care gaps, poor communication and a 26-day stay in A&E’ lay behind death
A coroner has ordered an integrated care board to fill gaps in its services and address mental health bed shortages following the death of a 29-year-old with autism and ADHD who spent 26 days in A&E.
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News18 ICBs warned over deaths following care failures
Disjointed, delayed, and substandard care for people with both mental illness and additional needs are highlighted throughout reports sent to integrated care boards on the deaths of 24 people, HSJ has found.