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A new target for improving patients’ experience of making GP appointments is among three top NHS priorities identified by the prime minister for this year, HSJ has learned.
Posted: May 6, 2026, 12:01 pm
NHS England is restricting access to open source code after researchers found that the Mythos AI model could expose “pretty severe” vulnerabilities in commonly used software.
Posted: May 6, 2026, 7:54 am
The top two trust chief executives in the 12th edition of HSJ’s annual ranking of the most respected provider CEOs have taken very different routes to the summit.
Posted: May 6, 2026, 5:55 am
An upstart NHS tech supplier is planning a major expansion after being bought out by a European company.
Posted: May 5, 2026, 9:01 pm
Trusts’ complaints teams are facing a wave of AI-generated complaints letters which can run to dozens of pages, deploying inaccurate legal arguments and containing hallucinated information, HSJ has learned.
Posted: May 5, 2026, 11:40 am
Community diagnostic centres could become a financial “burden” on providers without extra funding and changes to how tests are paid for, the programme’s architect has warned in an internal review obtained by HSJ.
Posted: May 5, 2026, 11:38 am
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has appointed a GP, and former NHS England national clinical director, as its new chief medical officer.
Posted: May 4, 2026, 2:21 pm
GP practices should take “collective action” in protest against their contract by cutting back on sharing patient data, the British Medical Association’s GP committee has said.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 4:23 pm
The care of a five-year-old boy who died at a specialist hospital “did not meet the standards expected”, an external review has said.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 2:13 pm
The rollout of IT systems has created a “degree of turmoil” until recently, the chief executive of NHS England has admitted.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 12:30 pm
A chief executive who lost accountable officer status when her trust adopted a group model last month is set to leave to run another acute provider.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 10:34 am
Many medical consultants report a “mixed” experience with the advice and guidance model, saying it is “under-resourced and adding to existing backlogs”, according to research by an integrated care board.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 5:56 am
More than 700 staff have left NHS England this year through voluntary exit and redundancy schemes and another 2,300 are due to depart by next April, national leaders have said.
Posted: May 1, 2026, 5:11 am
A former chair of NHS Improvement has been appointed to lead the new national “college” for senior managers and clinical leaders, HSJ has learned.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 11:35 am
An integrated care board cluster is planning to use AI to job-match staff as part of its plans to achieve 50 per cent cuts to running costs.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 11:35 am
A mental health trust discharged a patient without reviewing his risk level, a month before he went on to stab a man.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 4:50 am
NHS England has formally intervened over governance failures at a trust whose chair resigned after “exceeding her authority” by suspending its chief executive.
Posted: April 29, 2026, 3:01 pm
The Department of Health and Social Care is paying a management consultancy £1.8m to help it “create and drive the right target culture” – and to advise on “pay strategy” – as it absorbs NHS England.
Posted: April 29, 2026, 12:10 pm
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned a “technical adviser” to develop the public-private partnership model for neighbourhood health centres.
Posted: April 29, 2026, 4:13 am
“Systemic governance failures” lay behind a hospital trust wasting £15m restoring an incinerator which rapidly went out of use, a review has found.
Posted: April 29, 2026, 4:09 am
A trust plans to restart a £10m contract award to run two urgent care centres after making a string of “highly material” errors in the procurement process.
Posted: April 28, 2026, 12:01 pm
NHS England is considering allowing midwives to “withdraw” services from women deemed to be giving birth at home against professional advice, HSJ has learned.
Posted: April 28, 2026, 4:57 am
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