All Podcast articles – Page 3
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Tough talk on deficits
This week we take a closer look at Wes Streeting’s tough talk on NHS deficits – the health and social care secretary has told the NHS there can be no overspending without consequences.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Unpacking the planning guidance
NHS England published the 2025-26 planning guidance last week, so HSJ Health Check breaks down what it means for the service.
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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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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Delay and disappointment for the ‘new hospitals’
This week government finally revealed its new - and mostly delayed - target dates for the building of the promised “new hospitals”.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The fall of an NHS giant
On this episode, we unpick the ongoing tensions between leaders and senior doctors at one of the biggest trusts in England.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The plan for electives
The HSJ Health Check team looks at the new elective recovery plan launched this month.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What’s coming in 2025 for the NHS
The HSJ Health Check team reveals our predictions for the big issues – and unexpected developments – in 2025, on this week’s Christmas podcast.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Break even or pay freeze
This week’s podcast looks at pay and who is going to get what next year, and on what conditions.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Targets and terror and tech
This week’s podcast looks at whose job it is to oversee England’s over-mighty provider sector, plus the new world coming into view on technology.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Directors on the stand over Letby’s murders
This week, the podcast looks at accountability in the NHS and the Thirlwall Inquiry.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Named and shamed
This week, the podcast looks at the fallout from a lively NHS Providers conference.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What we want from the 10-year plan
A leading trust CEO, ICS leader and policy guru join the HSJ podcast to tell us what’s needed from the government’s 10-year health plan.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the ‘left shift’ means for hospitals
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover is joined by the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers to talk money, quality and the CQC
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ticking timebomb
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss whether the NHS can cut into the elective waiting list this winter. Plus the latest on the state of the service’s estate.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ‘NHS is broken’ blowback
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the Labour Party conference plus some alarming developments in IT.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Streeting ‘reads the Riot Act’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the big Streeting meeting plus a new player in primary care.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Inquiries – who are they for?
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss three major NHS inquiries that started hearing evidence this week.











