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An integrated care board breached procurement rules while awarding a £20m general practice contract to a national corporate provider.
Posted: August 12, 2026, 12:01 pm
Just six out of 25 integrated care board and cluster footprints match a current or proposed strategic authority boundary, HSJ analysis shows.
Posted: August 12, 2026, 12:00 pm
An error in a trust’s performance data means all providers’ current positions in mental health and community trust league tables are incorrect.
Posted: August 12, 2026, 4:26 am
Wes Streeting and the government’s maternity adviser are urging a safety body to consider investigating the NHS’s handling of a “severe yet poorly recognised” condition which can cause “life-changing harm”.
Posted: August 12, 2026, 4:23 am
The price of gloves is expected to rise by 75 per cent from next week due to the Iran war, NHS Supply Chain has warned trusts.
Posted: August 11, 2026, 11:24 am
Block contracts should be replaced by payment by results to tackle “fundamentally wrong” year-long waits for children’s services, a trust chief has told HSJ.
Posted: August 11, 2026, 3:30 am
A rural maternity unit is closing this week, despite local opposition, blaming a lack of doctors.
Posted: August 10, 2026, 3:19 pm
Patient safety and public health have been upgraded to a ministerial responsibility, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
Posted: August 10, 2026, 2:08 pm
Police are sending people in mental health crisis to prison when they should be in a secure hospital, with “devastating consequences”, inspectors have warned.
Posted: August 10, 2026, 3:35 am
Candidates for a readvertised post in the Department of Health and Social Care’s executive team, with pay up to £342,000, have been advised to expect a mock public accounts committee grilling.
Posted: August 7, 2026, 5:17 am
An ambulance trust is to strengthen safeguarding for students after sacking two senior staff for sexual misconduct and identifying “inherent power imbalances” that put learners at risk.
Posted: August 7, 2026, 4:00 am
AI tools that are already being rolled out across the NHS face an investigation by the national safety body.
Posted: August 6, 2026, 12:26 pm
The government has named the 159 provisional sites for new mental health emergency departments and community centres, which will share £343m of capital.
Posted: August 6, 2026, 5:00 am
NHS England regions have begun introducing their own regional performance management regimes for providers, on top of the NHS Oversight Framework.
Posted: August 6, 2026, 4:59 am
A new set of targets has been agreed between NHS England and mental health chief executives in a bid to boost the sector’s reputation within government.
Posted: August 5, 2026, 11:54 am
Private providers are set to take over the running of some adult social care services currently carried out by an NHS trust in the South West.
Posted: August 5, 2026, 4:11 am
One of England’s most challenged trusts faces resident doctors being removed from two specialties due to racism from staff and patients, board papers have revealed.
Posted: August 5, 2026, 4:01 am
Sharing executives across struggling providers can lead to leadership teams becoming “stretched and therefore less effective”, NHS England has acknowledged.
Posted: August 4, 2026, 11:57 am
A lack of clarity around lead provider and commissioner roles at a mental health trust collaborative is creating “potential conflicts of interest”, a review has found.
Posted: August 4, 2026, 3:57 am
Clinicians and managers knew of problems with an ear, nose, and throat waiting list five years before a backlog of nearly 9,000 patients came to light, an NHS England review has found.
Posted: August 3, 2026, 11:54 am
A former trust CEO “misled” one of his board executives who was sacked after a “deeply flawed” investigation, an employment tribunal has found.
Posted: August 3, 2026, 3:44 am
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