All Podcast articles – Page 7
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s latest PFI problem
A legal battle has erupted between a hospital trust and bank-backed PFI company over fire safety and payment refusals. We discuss why the case has potentially wider implications for other NHS trusts.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The latest casualties of the NHS data bidding war
A consortium of British companies has been knocked out of the hotly contested competition to win a £480m contract to provide the NHS with a new data platform.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Does the Hewitt review matter?
Patricia Hewitt’s much-anticipated review of ICS autonomy was published this week. We discuss its recommendations, the politics behind it, and what meaningful, lasting impact it could have.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast | Bad Blood: The NHS agency engulfed in a racism scandal
NHS Blood and Transplant has been embroiled in allegations of racism that stretch back several years.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS pay deal and who’s left out
This week we discuss a quirk of last week’s pay deal between health unions and the government, which could see staff at the top of Agenda for Change paid more than senior managers.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why Hunt’s spending £1bn a year to fix NHS pensions
This week we analyse the Spring Budget and what it means for the NHS, in particular the pensions tax overhaul.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey
With this year’s NHS staff survey results just landed, we take a look at those invaluable annual insights into how the workforce is feeling.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Is it time to scrap foundation trusts?
Could foundation trusts be hindering the success of integrated care systems – and is it time to do away with them? One foundation trust chair thinks so and we discuss the merits of the idea on the show this week.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Julian Hartley on collaboration, reform and why he became NHS Providers’ CEO
Fresh from starting work as NHS Providers’ new chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley joins HSJ Health Check to talk about collaboration, strikes, reform and more.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Tech budget raids and wasted millions
Many NHS technology programmes are facing an uncertain future following revelations NHS England’s tech budget is being drastically cut.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What next for urgent care?
With A&E performance seemingly improving from its December lows, we discuss the new target health systems will be working towards as well as examining what changes the new executive director of urgent and emergency care has planned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: A game changer for length of stay?
The debate over single patient rooms has raged for many years, but emerging news from Liverpool’s new hospital suggests it could be a game-changer for cutting patients’ length of stay. We discuss the impact of the much-maligned city trust’s new hospital on patient flow.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The staff the NHS forgot
An HSJ Investigation has revealed trusts are denying staff employed by their wholly owned subsidiary companies the pay and conditions offered to other staff. We discuss why this forgotten group of the workforce are missing out.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Inside NHS England's £500m data gamble
Bids are open for NHS England’s new £480m national data platform – will it make the NHS better connected and more efficient, or is it a national vanity project? We also discuss who the successful bidders might be.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The New Year war on the waiting list
NHS trusts have been given 20 days by NHS England to book in all patients who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks for their elective appointment.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What does 2023 have in store for the NHS?
The HSJ team make their predictions for what the new year could bring for the health service, including a return of deficits, tough times for the hospital building programme and a big year for mental health reform.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Ambulance strikes - all you need to know
On this episode, our team brings you the very latest news and analysis of the strike action hitting the NHS this week.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Organograms assemble
This week, we bring you the latest on the hospital building programme, including confirmation that all new buildings must have single patient rooms. We discuss the staffing and safety challenges this will bring for trusts.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Two Streps back
‘Rubbish’ communications have been blamed by senior NHS leaders for causing a flood of people going to A&E with Group Strep A concerns, with calls to NHS 111 hitting record levels so far this winter.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: NHS England’s failure to kill the four-hour target
NHS England’s protracted bid to scrap the four-hour A&E target has finally been shelved by ministers, as we exclusively revealed last week.