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A trust has claimed it was left unprepared for an unannounced Care Quality Commission inspection because of the demands of an inquiry into historic care failures.
Posted: June 8, 2026, 7:00 am
The government’s decision to give integrated care boards partial responsibility for delivering a new £1.8bn special needs programme is creating “real tension” with their plans to cut staffing and focus on commissioning, system leaders have warned.
Posted: June 8, 2026, 6:19 am
Cancer waiting time pressures have led an acute trust to withdraw an offer to treat children with complex needs in its theatres.
Posted: June 5, 2026, 11:36 am
NHS England has finally revealed its planned local deficit figure for 2026/27, but admitted that ongoing negotiations mean it still has to find an additional £300m.
Posted: June 5, 2026, 11:26 am
Overdue payments by trusts running to tens of millions of pounds have sparked a fresh row with suppliers, who have warned the situation is “not sustainable”.
Posted: June 5, 2026, 5:04 am
Trust chairs and chief executives must take mandatory antisemitism and anti-racism training within six months, as part of efforts to tackle “routine ostracism” of Jewish people in the NHS.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 2:32 pm
Sir Jim Mackey has warned NHS leaders that cyber security is a “dramatically” bigger threat than it was just a few weeks ago, due to rapidly changing tech.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 1:28 pm
The Care Quality Commission has been accused of undertaking “ridiculous” inspections without clinical input which have put patients at risk, HSJ can reveal.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 12:08 pm
There is only one senior mental health lead across the seven new regional commissioning hubs taking on specialised services from NHS England, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has told a public inquiry.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 11:08 am
The national patient data watchdog has said it will investigate how Palantir staff came to have access to identifiable patient data in the federated data platform, despite previous assurances that this would not be the case.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 9:15 am
A maternity service has been given a “good” rating by the Care Quality Commission, despite midwives reporting being asked to work back-to-back shifts with no sleep breaks.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 5:48 am
NHS England is developing plans to procure external expertise to help it cut the cost of the £7.5bn all-age continuing care services on a “no saving, no payment” basis.
Posted: June 4, 2026, 5:36 am
An interim chair has been appointed to the Care Quality Commission, which has bemoaned a “regrettable” delay in recruiting a permanent successor.
Posted: June 3, 2026, 4:36 pm
An acute trust has made its interim chief executive permanent, in the latest of a string of senior appointments in the North East.
Posted: June 3, 2026, 12:06 pm
Six trusts have been released from an NHS England’s regime for the most challenged providers, HSJ has learned.
Posted: June 3, 2026, 12:04 pm
A trust group whose CEO left after board relationships broke down is still paying the salary of its former boss, who is now in an NHS England regional role.
Posted: June 3, 2026, 12:03 pm
A doctor who has previously run as a Labour parliamentary candidate has been appointed chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust.
Posted: June 2, 2026, 1:18 pm
A decision to provide substandard dialysis treatment due to “exceptional” capacity pressure was not responsible for high mortality discovered among the service’s patients, a trust has claimed.
Posted: June 2, 2026, 11:38 am
Several trusts in the South West are being asked to restrict all non-essential spending due to their “challenging financial position”.
Posted: June 2, 2026, 11:37 am
The Care Quality Commission has written off millions of pounds from the value of the failed IT system that was central to recent problems with its inspection regime.
Posted: June 2, 2026, 5:58 am
More than 1,300 patients were referred for urgent bowel cancer investigations they may not have needed after a calibration error at a shared NHS pathology service.
Posted: June 2, 2026, 5:47 am
A mental health trust has appointed an interim chief with a reputation for taking on challenged organisations while it begins a search for its next permanent leader.
Posted: June 1, 2026, 11:59 am
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