All Health Service Journal articles in January 2025 – Page 6
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NewsElective recovery fund capped for rest of year
The amount of extra waiting list funding trusts can earn is to be capped in the remaining months of the financial year, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersErgéa UK facilitates a new diagnostic unit opening in spring 2025
As part of a managed equipment service contract and in collaboration with North Cumbria Integrated Care Trust, Ergéa has supported the development of a state-of-the-art endoscopy unit at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
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NewsExclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.
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NewsReforms to fix Band 8 pay gap at risk, ministers warned
Unions are warning the government it risks derailing “comprehensive” reforms to fix the Agenda for Change pay band structure, including the lack of an incentive to promotion to Band 8a.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Turbulence at the top
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: PFI is overdue a comeback
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsManagers should ‘embrace’ regulation, says Letby trust CEO
NHS managers should “welcome and embrace” the introduction of professional regulation in the wake of the Lucy Letby scandal, according to the current CEO of the trust where her murders took place.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital asks patients in corridors to ‘lobby MPs’ for funding
A hospital’s leadership have put up posters in its corridors asking patients to lobby local MPs – who include Wes Streeting – for funding to expand its under-pressure A&E.
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NewsHackers ‘compromised details’ of hundreds of staff
Hackers are claiming to have stolen – and are offering for sale – personal details of around 200 foreign nationals working in the UK healthcare sector from the Home Office.
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CommentHolding the NHS and its leaders to account needs a rethink
Trust chair Matthew Swindells argues NHS managers must be held accountable for efficiency and quality, but transparency, fair funding allocations, and a balanced performance regime are also key to driving improvements
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NewsRevealed: War of words among leaders at £1.6bn trust
Medical managers at University Hospitals Birmingham have accused some colleagues of misrepresenting doctors’ views and creating “negativity” which is “detrimental to the reputation of our organisation”, HSJ has learned.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: An appointment to watch
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsTrust chair leaves after less than a year in post
An ambulance trust chair is leaving after just 10 months to take up an as-yet-unspecified executive role elsewhere in the NHS.
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NewsNHSE appoints ex-Tory adviser as strategy director
NHS England has hired a former adviser to Jeremy Hunt and Sir Sajid Javid as its strategy director.
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NewsTrust hires ICB leader as new CEO
A new chief executive has been appointed to a struggling mental health trust, a year after the Care Quality Commission raised major concerns about its leadership.
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News20% of corporate jobs to go in cost-cutting restructure
An ambulance trust is reducing the number of posts in its corporate directorates by 20 per cent.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: My top five healthcare books
Steve Black lists the essential books that challenge healthcare practices, and which focus on improving knowledge, decision-making, resource allocation, and evidence-based practices to drive better outcomes.
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Daily InsightHSJ Weekly Catch-up: Elective plans, handover woes and legal dust-ups
Your essential update on health for the week.
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HSJ LocalICB pays consultants £230,000 to help it escape deficit
An integrated care board has hired external consultants in a bid to improve its finances, and support one of its trusts to exit the highest rung of national oversight.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Winter returns with a vengeance
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe