Enough to employ *80 million* nurses! www.hsj.co.uk/mental-healt...

Latest development in the Humber Health Partnership saga: Governors at one of the trusts voted to block the appointment of the current interim as permanent CEO. They claimed the move - backed by NHS England - would "bypass due process"

Green party leader Zack Polanski calls on Wes Streeting to scrap the NHS's contract with Palantir www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

A damning internal review has criticised leadership at two NHS trusts in Hull and North Lincs. It said: - There was “inadequate rigour in the management of never events" - patient safety risks “normalised over time" - Culture described as “them and us” - Board is "fragmented"

A senior MP has called an investigation into a £300k exit payment to an ex-integrated care board CEO. Clive Betts and Lord Blunkett have also raised concerns over South Yorkshire ICB's restructuring exercise. w/ Annabelle Collins

NHS England executive Glen Burley said today that plans for 1k extra medical training places would "not be moving forward" This would be a significant development as training posts are meant to be filled from August - not mentioned by Wes Streeting in his statement earlier...

War of words as NHS boss accuses BMA of timing strikes to cause "maximum harm" Glen Burley also said he was "really shocked" the govt offer had not been put to resident doctors for a vote, and said a planned expansion of 1,000 training posts would now not go ahead.

Bosses at NHS South Yorkshire have reopened a consultation on restructuring following concerns raised by unions They say “other ICBs are in a similar space" - are more set to follow?

"What performance improvements? Where the heck are they? Can you see them?" www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca...

Key NHS supplier down to two weeks' stock following Iran-linked cyber attack from @jackserle.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Fascinated to see who the "NHS officials" Farage has promised for his shadow cabinet turn out to be

In more positive news, it looks like York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals has started to turn a corner (despite financial and other challenges) - one of the most improved trusts on % of staff recommending it as a place to work

Just 24% of staff at Humber and North Yorkshire ICB would recommend their organisation as a place to work - one of the lowest in the country. Last year was a tough one, with major leadership turnover on top of the cuts other organisations are going through

Interesting comment on story by @jamesillman.bsky.social that highlights the human cost of a push for productivity that is focused on sweating existing assets (as opposed to investing in processes and removing bottlenecks).

"Doctor, I have trouble sleeping." "Go and see the great singer Morrissey, you'll be asleep in no time." "But Doctor..."

Number 10 / Treasury / DHSC clearly staking everything on delivering fairly small improvements in elective waiting list (which actually doesn't even cover all physical health care) Risk is other services continue to decline or don't improve www.hsj.co.uk/mental-healt...

Undoubtedly positive news, but at this rate it will take *25 years* for the elective waiting list to be eliminated Huge numbers of people waiting for care is now normalised and not going to go away anytime soon

It's small change in the NHS, but Wes Streeting claimed the Further Faster 20 programme (to boost elective work in economically deprived areas) brought success "without spending more in those trusts". Yet NHS England's evaluation of the scheme says it cost £1.2m 🤔

News from NHS in Hull and Northern Lincs: - Group model between two trusts became "de-facto merger" and brought problems, says interim CEO - New chair appointed - Two more non-execs leave trusts www.hsj.co.uk/hull-univers...

Powerful article and comments sharing experiences of anti-semitism in the NHS www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/hi...

Baroness Casey (leading review of social care) says system needs reforms "equivalent to Beveridge" in 1948. With health (particularly electives) the big priority and budgets tight, is govt really going to go for radical reform a few years out from general election? www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...

After four months travelling around Asia, I'm back in Merrie England and back to work. Thanks to @zoetidman.bsky.social for holding the finance fort on HSJ news. Pls get in touch with tips / coffee requests / ideas for what I should be looking into!

One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services. What's not to like? This is not as easy as some think. A short thread: 1/

Speaking to HSJ, the NHS's finance boss has set out first steps to a "much fairer" financial system: - Deficit support to be phased out in three years for most providers - Funding to move back to "fair shares" in same timeline - Allocations issued on a three-year basis www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Great to host this week's HSJ podcast speaking to @hsjeditor.bsky.social about Labour's "chaotic" first year for health policy and their big bet that patient power will (somehow) save the NHS: open.spotify.com/episode/3NDb...

Two hospital trusts brought in a HR firm to investigate the behaviour of their chair and CEO: www.hsj.co.uk/hull-univers...

NHS boss says the main way to improve health service cybersecurity is fixing the basics like "multi-factor authentication, out-of-support kit [and] weak passwords”. ...Not entirely reassuring from @BenClover www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Departing senior official at massively-delayed new hospitals programme insists it will be “one of country’s most successful transformation” projects from @zoetidman.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/people-moves...

"Below expectations": The NHS has deferred radical changes to its financial systems needed to implement the 10-Year Health Plan www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Trump and pharma are lobbying gov hard to water-down the NHS’s ability to contain spending on new branded drugs. Today’s long read from me and the LSE’s Huseyin Naci sets out why the gov should hold firm to protect the health of the NHS and UK public nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/th... >>

Nearly 50 NHS trusts that perform well on patient care have been downgraded because they are in deficit. But analysis of NHS England's own figures shows two-thirds of those are under-funded - raising questions about the fairness of the new league tables

ICE by day, hanging out with local skatepark dudes by night

NHS England has been pushing trusts to treat more patients from the same (or less) resources. But even trusts with productivity improvements are overspending their budgets - suggesting this alone isn't the answer to the service's financial woes. www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Labour MP Paulette Hamilton criticises the health and visa care introduced by previous govt. Says workers on this visa had more problems at work due to lack of support. Adds UK "cannot be bringing in people when there are so many people here who are unemployed". #Lab25

Tim Meek, of Assoc of Anaesthetists, says paper records were faster than current NHS tech. Says it used to take three mins to go through a set of paper notes. "It now might take 10 minutes to scroll through maybe four or five different apps on a slow laptop" #hcf25 #Lab25

The govt says NHS league tables went through a "rigorous" fact-checking process. Yet a version marked "final" contained errors that were only spotted at the last-minute. As a result 14 trusts - including Jim Mackey's former trust - changed segment. www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

Good question from Blake Stephenson and one that had been annoying me Looks like ICBs will be reorganised *again* when (or if) the government goes ahead with creating mayoral strategic authorities across the entire country

The health sec says league tables help patients choose where to get treatment. But some of the best for patient care have been marked down due to deficits. Does the government really want patients to be diverted away from these hospitals? www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Hopefully an initial serialisation of @davewwest.bsky.social's 20-volume magnum opus: The decline and fall of NHS England www.hsj.co.uk/comment/how-...

Exclusive: This summer's round of resident doctor strike action cost the NHS £300m, internal docs show. Health service has effectively been told to find the money from existing budgets and is introducing spending freeze w @kituno.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex...

Good to be quoted in this piece. Reform's "DOGE" has been a complete bust, high on rhetoric and low on meaningful change Reform's councillors have worked out that their councils' finances are not going to be fixed by cancelling a few "DEI" programmes www.ft.com/content/fd85...

Earlier this year NHS England celebrated staff turnover falling to record low as evidence of improved retention efforts. But NHS insiders say the reason fewer staff are leaving is that there are no jobs to go to.

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...

In March NHS England's new boss ordered boards to cut staff costs in half by December. But now integrated care boards are delaying redundancy processes because the Treasury has refused to fund lay-offs. www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ic...

Yet another retrospective triumph for Cameron and Osborne.

More than £100m has been raided from NHS budgets earmarked for primary care, community services and prevention www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

Streeting adviser Tom Kibasi, who helped draft the NHS 10-Year plan, is being seconded to Number 10 www.hsj.co.uk/people-moves...

Fascinating piece on how Denmark and Ireland approached their reforms to shift care into the community. Denmark invested heavily in "super hospitals" ahead of transition, has capped increases in hospital budgets and provided extra funding for community. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...

An NHS acute trust boss has moved to a GP-led community provider seen as a frontrunner to deliver the government's vision of teams of neighbourhood health care professionals www.hsj.co.uk/people-moves...