Daily Insight: Pensions, pay and pain

The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.

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Grow your NHS workforce with degree apprenticeships from the University of Greenwich

The healthcare sector is under increasing pressure to fill workforce gaps, upskill existing staff, and retain talent, and your organisation is probably no different.

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HSJ Podcast: The state of maternity services

This week, the team look at two long-running and contentious issues in the NHS.

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Senior managers face real terms pay cut as govt rejects pay recommendation

The government has awarded above-inflation pay rises for most NHS staff for 2025-26, but senior managers will see their earnings fall in real terms.

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Trusts spending too much ‘pursuing executive talent’

Government pay advisers have raised concerns about trusts spending an estimated £7m a year on recruitment firms "to pursue the same talent" for executive posts.

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NHS funding may be ‘maxed out’ but change is still possible

With NHS funding stretched to its limit, real transformation demands more than just balancing the books - it calls for honest, evidence-based decisions about what to start, stop and sustain, writes Andi Orlowski

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CQC hires trust director as chief inspector of hospitals

A trust medical director has been appointed as the chief inspector of hospitals at the Care Quality Commission.

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‘No staffing growth’ policy implicated in patient’s death

Repeated refusals by NHS England to fund extra staff was a key factor in a patient's death, a coroner has said.

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Daily Insight: Subsidiary stresses

The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.

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Balancing security and research access to North West London’s health data

iCARE and WSIC find new ways to enable both public trust and technological advances in healthcare

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Five trusts accelerate move to shared leadership

A city's five trusts have decided to "accelerate" plans to form a major £2bn hospital group, moving to a shared CEO and chair by next spring.

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Trust predicts ‘standstill’ in very long waits

A trust has called in a private provider to help address very long diagnostic waits, but admits they remain at a "standstill" without "further investment".

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NHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals

NHS England has told integrated care boards they need to slow down elective referrals dramatically - nearly eliminating year-on-year growth - with high-profile waiting list targets under threat.

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Government must develop an NHS digitisation plan and stick to it

A bold digital future for health and care is possible - but only with clear vision, sustained investment, and the humility to learn lessons from past failures, writes Tom Hardie

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Staff locked in hospital during ‘unprecedented’ power cut

Staff were effectively "locked in" a hospital at night during a power cut that led to a major incident being declared last year, HSJ can reveal.

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Trust’s contract management ‘poor or non-existent’

A teaching trust's contract management was "poor or non-existent", thanks to a fractured relationship with its own subsidiary, a review has found.

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Daily Insight: Clusters’ last stand

The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.

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Carbon Copy: Boiling, freezing, failing

The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman

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NHS facing another national maternity services review

Another major inquiry into patient safety within NHS maternity departments is being considered, HSJ has learned, this time by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.

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Troubled trust to appoint shared CEO with community provider

A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chief executive with its neighbouring community provider as it explores a new group model.

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Trust adopts neighbour’s EPR

One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health's system

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Ministers sign off capital boost for ‘high-performing’ systems

Top-performing systems will be able to spend up to £25m above their usual capital allocations under an upcoming NHS England rewards scheme, HSJ can reveal.

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Daily Insight: Staying power pays off

The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.

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HSJ Podcast: Why AI isn’t taking off in the NHS

In many areas the NHS is still in the foothills when it comes to using artificial intelligence, with most of the innovation found in diagnostics and speech dictation.

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Pay for ICB managers set higher than trusts

Integrated care board CEOs and directors should often be paid more than trust peers, under new guidance published today.

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Wait list grows for first time in seven months

Seasonal growth has overwhelmed recent sluggish improvements, writes Rob Findlay

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New NHSE strategy chief confirmed

NHS England has confirmed the appointment of a new strategy director.

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Trust in row with BMA over senior doctor

A hospital trust is involved in a row with the British Medical Association amid concerns over a 'bullying culture', it has emerged.

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Reform’s council victories will strain relationship with the NHS

Reform UK has taken control of a swathe of councils. David Walker explores what this might mean for the NHS

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The mythbuster: More face to face GP appointments won’t make patients happier

Steve Black questions key claims in a new report on general practice

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