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CommentThe perfect Christmas gifts for NHS managers
Stuck for original gift ideas? Running out of time due to last-minute reporting commitments? There’s something for everyone in this list of festive shopping recommendations, compiled by Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Integration in 2025
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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HSJ InteractiveDigital transformation will be key to ‘last chance’ NHS reforms
Two conflicting views wove through the HSJ and IBM event on how information technology might help deliver the forthcoming 10-year NHS plan.
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CommentIntermediate care is failing most patients
Intermediate care holds promise for reducing hospital reliance, but challenges in design, delivery, and investment demand urgent attention to ensure effective care for ageing populations, writes Richard Humphries
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NewsNew leaders bring ‘energy, focus and grit’ to troubled trusts, says NHSE
Changing chairs, CEOs and finance chiefs has helped turn around several poorly performing trusts and systems, NHS England has said, but it plans to do more to “strengthen” leadership at troubled organisations.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsExclusive: Government steps back from pledge to hit A&E target
The government has refused to reaffirm its pledge to return the NHS to hitting the four-hour A&E standard by the end of this parliament after a spokesman admitted to HSJ “we cannot do everything at once”.
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NewsStarmer rejects the need for trade-offs to hit elective care target
Making the recovery of elective care a priority does not give the NHS “permission” to allow “everything else [to] suffer”, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned.
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LeaderThe return of austerity to the NHS means making tough choices
The implications of last month’s budget are now being fully understood throughout the NHS – and the conclusion of leaders at all levels is that austerity will return to the service for 2025-26.
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CommentThe NHS is drowning in recommendations
Overloaded with duplicative recommendations, the healthcare system must prioritise impactful actions, improve collaboration, and ensure meaningful implementation to enhance patient safety and restore public trust, writes Rosie Benneyworth.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Losing the plot?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West and correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsChair to leave regulator after ‘intensely challenging’ term
The chair of the Care Quality Commission is to leave the organisation next spring, having admitted the past three years have “at times been intensely challenging”.
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NewsNHSE board members face regulation under government proposals
A major consultation on introducing professional regulation of NHS managers and leaders proposes applying the measures to NHS England board members.
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HSJ LocalStreeting’s ‘targets and terror won’t work’, trust chair warns
Wes Streeting is “sounding like a merchant of doom” and is wrong to call the NHS “broken”, a trust chair has said in a strongly worded commentary to his board.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Game changers
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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NewsManagers face legal penalties for failing to deal with safety concerns
NHS managers would be made “legally accountable for responding to concerns about patient safety” under new government proposals.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt on why sacking managers is a bad idea
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt.
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CommentStop blaming agencies and doctors for NHS staffing problems
Before even completing the much-anticipated “change” consultation on NHS staffing, Wes Streeting’s plan to ban agency workers from certain roles has raised concerns about bias and missed chances for meaningful reform, writes Kate Shoesmith.
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CommentNHS reluctance to work with pharma must be addressed
Effective collaboration between the NHS and life sciences requires trust, accessibility, leadership, and deeper sector integration, writes Anna Charles
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NewsOperational management is ‘biggest thing missing from NHS’, says ICB chair
Operational management is the “biggest thing missing” from the NHS, an influential integrated care board chair has said.