BREAKING: Another resignation! This time the NHS's national mental health director who has left "with immediate effect" claiming politcians wanted her out because she resisted their plans to cut funding www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex...

About to head off on holiday by train (like me)? Well then, my son has some useful advice you....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIH25F7tbx0&feature=youtu.be

My favourite ever HSJ 1st sentence. "A trust has seconded the chief operating officer from a neighbouring provider as its interim CEO after the incumbent was temporarily transferred to run a 3rd provider following the move of its CEO to a 4th trust, also as an interim." www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/in...

BREAKING: I have obtained a full draft copy of the Government's 10 Year Health Plan which is due to be published next week. Read my analysis here: www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

How strong is the resident (junior) doctor's demand for a plus 5 per cent pay rise? Some very useful context here www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

23 years to the day since I became @HSJEditor for the first time. Still the most fascinating job in the specialist media.

BREAKING: Elon Musk offers Streeting help on NHS cuts www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

The Governmnent reforms of the NHS are meant to be a response to the 'Lansley' re-organisation of 2010-12, but they seem to be repeating all the same mistakes of that process (for v similar reasons) www.hsj.co.uk/comment/stre...

About to appear on Times Radio to discuss the abolition of NHS England www.thetimes.com/radio/live

Many commentators banged out their 'what NHS England's abolition means' pieces within hours - I waited until I had talked to most of the senior figures involved - & then wrote this...https://www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulation/what-the-abolition-of-nhse-means-for-the-services-leaders/7038864.article

The end of NHS England hsj.co.uk/comment/nhs-... written three weeks before Amanda Prichard's departure, but holding up pretty well.

Fundamental problem in patient safety, @england.nhs.uk, is that we often don’t know where the biggest risks lie until too late. Writes @jeremyhuntmp.bsky.social @hsjeditor.bsky.social Fundamental problem = inadequate action in terms of Infection Prevention and Control. www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

This year's NHS financial planning round is going to be a bloody affair. Listen to @BenClover and I discuss it on our weekly podcast www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-health-c...

LOTS of big NHS stories breaking today - so don't touch that dial!

BREAKING and Exclusive: NHS England chair named www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...

NHS still not prepared for ‘mass casualty incidents’ liked the Manchester Arena attack hsj.co.uk/quality-and-... Great reporting by @AliJaneMoore

BREAKING The former CEO of Countess of Chester Hospital was wrongly forced out of her job in 2022-23, because she raised whistleblowing complaints about bullying behaviour by its chair - who is still in post - an employment tribunal ruled yesterday.

Of all the many media orgs that follow up @HSJnews stories, there's only one who consistently fails to credit us - and that's @BBCNews www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/e... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why are NHS discharge letters so maddening?! My 85 year old mum comes home after hospitalisation due to a seizure. Letter says referral to specialist and community services. But no idea of timing, and no way of asking questions of either referring clinician or those receiving it

Some light at the end of the tunnel? Latest report from UK Health Security Agency states: "Flu activity showed a mixed picture with some indicators suggesting that activity may have reached a peak, though activity remains at high levels."

Actually quite a lot of interesting stuff in the government's elective care plan! (V little of it mentioned by PM). Watch this space.

Asked about child protection, the PM says 'last thing we need is another report, we just need to get on with what's already been recommended many times.' Pity that wasn't his answer on social care.

Asked for proof of his commitment to NHS reform, Stamer cites giving resident (junior) doctors a 22.3% pay rise (!?)

Media lot more interested in the PM's views on Musk (than NHS reform). The danger of extensive briefing over the weekend.

Starmer (again) dodges answer on whether Labour is committed to hitting four hour A&E target. Privately they admit they are not (wisely so).

Starmer relentlessly beating the drum on reform - but VERY few of ideas in today's NHS Elective Plan are new

Struggling to think anything that Kier Starmer is saying on NHS reform that hasn't been said in the last three years by Conservative PMs/Health Secretaries. That's largely a good thing I think - and the key, of course, is delivery.