HSJ Health Check
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HSJ Health Check: Weekly analysis of the biggest issues in health policy and leadership, from HSJ's expert journalists. The go to place for an independent, informed and immediate take on health and care news.
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What’s in store for the NHS in 2026?
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The making of a Health Bill - How to abolish NHS England
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The big waiting list clean-up
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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The recipe for a new NHS CEO
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Money troubles
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Wes almost says sorry
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Critical incident
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Planning guidance explained - with NHS Providers’ CEO
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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How the Leeds Way went wrong
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Can patients save the NHS?
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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The NHS's ugly baby
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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The making of a Health Bill - What Ian Dodge learned about legislation
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Why the NHS is going private for cancer checks
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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ICB chiefs jump ship
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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How to win the (NHS) league
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Deficits are cancelled
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Mackey vs the BMA
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Spending too much on safety
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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A profound disappointment
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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NHS England's hardline on AI
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Who’s really in charge of neighbourhood health?
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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How the government should deal with another doctors' strike
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The making of a Health Bill - Your dream legislation
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Why some NHS staff are facing a pay cut
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May 30, 2025 |
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The state of maternity services
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May 23, 2025 |
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Why AI isn't taking off in the NHS
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May 16, 2025 |
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ICBs get their marching orders
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May 09, 2025 |
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The making of a Health Bill - part 1
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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What to do about the NHS’s capital drought
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The future of ICBs and NHSE
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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The never-ending care scandal
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The week that changed everything
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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The ups and downs of the NHS staff survey
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The big patient choice row
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The decline and fall of NHS England
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The year of the pig
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Tough talk on deficits
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Unpacking the planning guidance
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Penny Dash and David Nicholson on the 10-year plan
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Delay and disappointment for the ‘new hospitals’
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The fall of an NHS giant
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The plan for electives
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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What’s coming in 2025 for the NHS
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Break-even or pay-freeze
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Targets and terror and tech
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Directors on the stand at Thirlwall Inquiry
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Named and shamed
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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What health leaders want from the 10-year plan
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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What the 'left shift' means for hospitals
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Winter 'panic buying'
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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The magic administrator
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Ticking Timebomb
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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The future of the CQC
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The “broken” blowback
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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HSJ Podcast: Streeting 'reads the Riot Act'
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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HSJ Podcast: Inquiries - who are they for?
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Getting what you pay for
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Chairs in the hot seat
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Carrying the can for corridor care
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Rachel Reeves' blueprint for the NHS
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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It’s crunch time for general practice
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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48,000 hours stuck in an ambulance
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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When HSJ met Wes
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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What’s missing from the manifestos
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Taking A&E back to the 90s
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Live from Confed
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Held to ransom
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Return of the control totals
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May 31, 2024 |
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What the July election means for the NHS
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May 24, 2024 |
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Manchester’s financial meltdown
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May 17, 2024 |
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CQC inspections become the inspected
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May 10, 2024 |
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What ICB leaders really think
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May 03, 2024 |
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Are you going to lose your job?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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What the coroners say
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Why this winter was (a bit) better in the NHS
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The latest safety crisis for maternity care
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The planning guidance is finally here
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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The £4bn hole in the NHS’s building plans
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Scandal at ‘the safest trust in England’
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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How to be a top NHS employer
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The systems most reliant on the private sector
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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A high stakes game of chicken
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The victims of the DHSC's silent restructure
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The targets holding up the planning guidance
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Two top CEOs argue ‘hospital groups are here to stay’
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The reality behind NHSE's flagship outpatient programme
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Dentistry’s missing millions
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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The specialised commissioning lottery
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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HSJ’s predictions for 2024
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The target no one wants to talk about
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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A conversation with the Nuffield Trust's new CEO
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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How the Fuller abuse inquiry will change the NHS
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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How NHSE's new data platform will work
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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How one trust changed England's A&E model
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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What an election year will mean for the NHS
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The rise and rise of the hospital group
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Barclay’s war on the ‘woke’ NHS
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Mackey’s next move
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Labour’s plan to ‘underpromise and overdeliver’ on the NHS
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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How much have strikes cost the NHS?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Another maternity red flag
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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I’m afraid there is no (winter) money
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Getting real about manager regulation
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The RAAC scandal and what it means for the NHS
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The fallout from Lucy Letby and what it means for the NHS
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Patient experience in the post-covid era
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Why GP reform is finally coming
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Leadership standards revealed
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Under the skin of the strikes
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Who’s to blame for the latest A&E crisis?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Missing Sunak’s pledge
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The workforce plan – worth the wait?
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Big beasts of policy name their best and worst
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Palantir’s latest NHS deal explained
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Live from Confed
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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21 days stuck in A&E
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The elective activity the NHS wants to cut - but can't
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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The fate of ‘40 new hospitals’
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May 26, 2023 |
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The missing £1bn in capital funding
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May 19, 2023 |
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CDCs, the election cycle and fixing primary care
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May 12, 2023 |
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Revealed - Why Jim Mackey is back
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May 05, 2023 |
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‘Cash is King’ again as deficits bite
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The NHS’ latest PFI problem
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The latest casualties of the NHS data bidding war
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Does the Hewitt review matter?
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Bad Blood: The NHS agency engulfed in a racism scandal
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The NHS pay deal and who's left out
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Why Hunt’s spending £1bn a year to fix NHS pensions
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Everything you need to know about the NHS staff survey
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Should foundation trusts be scrapped?
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Julian Hartley on collaboration, workforce and why he became NHS Providers CEO
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Tech budget raids and wasted millions
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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What next for urgent care?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Single rooms reduces length of stay
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The staff the NHS forgot
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Inside NHS England's £500m data gamble
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The New Year war on the waiting list
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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What 2023 has in store for the NHS
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Ambulance strikes - all you need to know
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Organograms assemble
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Two Streps back
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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NHS England’s failure to kill the four-hour target
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Why the Hewitt review matters
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Barclay, strikes, and eye-catching appointments
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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What to expect from the spending review
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Crunch time for 40 ‘new hospitals’
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Back to the 1950s
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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What Chancellor Hunt means for the NHS
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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The ICSs already in the red
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Little NHS cheer at the Tory conference
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Why NHS pain will follow Truss’ economic chaos
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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‘Worst’ NHS trust faces writing on the wall
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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The NHS’ £18bn rainy day fund
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Who is Therese Coffey?
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The DHSC’s opening move in the NHS efficiency war
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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The NHS’ most dangerous buildings
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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ICSs - 1 Trusts - nil
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Tory tinkering while the NHS is on fire
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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The A&E target conundrum continues
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Crumbling services, but who's in charge?
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The pay award quirk that could be the final straw
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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The NHS’ worst night ever
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Barclay’s in-tray cancer crisis
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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The hardest job in the NHS
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Race, inequalities and NHS ConfedExpo
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Dispatches from Liverpool
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Trusts hit hardest by covid part 2: We’re still trying to manage by organisation
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Trusts hit hardest by covid part 1: We need time
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Ali Parsa is back in the news
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Boris Johnson’s ‘new hospitals’ in jeopardy
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May 20, 2022 |
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NHS England's unhappiest people
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May 13, 2022 |
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Secret merger mania
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May 06, 2022 |
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ICSs are under threat from a devolution frenzy
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Is infection control relaxation worth the risk?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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The ICS rebellion and exec diversity declines
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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A painful recovery
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Inside the Shropshire maternity scandal
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Rishi's big asks of the NHS
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Why the two-year waiters target could be already doomed
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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The multimillion pound cost of Russia's invasion to the NHS
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The return of payment by results
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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How to fix an NHS trust
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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An uncomfortable message for NHS CEOs
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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The NHS has captured this government
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Two trusts, NHS England and the whistleblowers
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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An NHS England exodus
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Red Meat for the NHS
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Will trusts really sack 60,000 unvaccinated staff?
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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What the 2022-23 NHS planning guidance really means
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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HSJ's predictions for 2022
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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How the NHS is preparing for Omicron
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Winter of the 'cancer catastrophe'?
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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The last thing the NHS needed
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Boris Johnson’s secret integration intervention
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Pritchard and Javid’s key messages to trusts ahead of ‘toughest winter’
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Why NHS bosses are braced for more slaps and fewer claps
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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The Health Bill and the race to 1 April for ICSs
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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The ambulance crisis and NHS England’s King Canute moment
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Why the Saj wants 'reform' - but the NHS is angry about it
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Inequality kills: Why £2.3bn is not enough to rescue mental health
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Chained naked outside the Department of Health
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Another winter nightmare?
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Why NHS services are collapsing
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Why £15.6bn extra spells cuts for the NHS
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Is it ‘unfair’ to blame GPs for remote consultations risk?
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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The ‘new hospital’ playbook lie
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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The rocky road ahead for integrated care systems
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Are covid visiting restrictions damaging patient safety?
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Why ambulance and A&E waits have hit record highs
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Salaries, systems and shielding
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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How the government is trying to build back cheaper
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Why the NHS needs fewer chairs and chiefs than ever
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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A nasty surprise for trusts and preparing for after 19 July
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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The Health Bill has landed
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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The unknown unknowns of Sajid Javid
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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A deep-dive into Hancock's data dream
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Picking the next NHS England chief executive: a conversation with Jeremy Hunt
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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How an Afghan refugee became an NHS telemedicine pioneer
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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How NHS England (quietly) axed the A&E target
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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What affect will Cumming’s fire and brimstone revelations have on Hancock?
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May 28, 2021 |
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How patients’ warnings about “inadequate” hospital went unheeded
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May 21, 2021 |
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What's changed in the government's NHS legislation plans
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May 14, 2021 |
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Who will be the next chief executive of NHS England?
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May 07, 2021 |
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The covid crisis in India - and what it means for NHS staff
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Greensill, Topwood and the NHS
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Why the eating disorder care crisis is risking lives
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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A tale of three regions – what happened next?
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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What the PM’s new health team means for the NHS
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Why this year’s NHS marching orders are so different
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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How three top trust chiefs fell out of favour
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Stressed out, but feeling positive - what covid did to NHS staff
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Realpolitik and the NHS's next big plan
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Punishing staff for gaming the vaccine system
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Palantir speaks out – the ‘secretive’ firm at the heart of the covid response
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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So long NHSX
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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What the new white paper means for the NHS
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Scandal in the Midlands
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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When ‘just in time’ does not work
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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How the NHS was left high and dry in covid’s third wave
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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The covid tidal wave heads North once more
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Preventing the NHS from being overwhelmed
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Escaping the gloom – what 2021 holds for the NHS
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The NHS's post coital vaccine glow begins to fade
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Delivering the vaccine - the NHS's greatest challenge
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Big decisions under cover of covid
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Long-covid care cannot be delayed any longer
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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The job the NHS must not screw up
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Is primary care ready for the second wave?
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Hospitals are still neglecting mental health
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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The North reaches boiling point
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Why the NHS was not prepared for covid wave two
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Has covid changed the NHS forever?
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Simon Says
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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What a second wave means for workforce
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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A good old-fashioned NHS finance row
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Is the government sacrificing cancer recovery in favour of Operation Moonshot?
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The vast 'known unknowns' facing the NHS this autumn
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Has covid changed hospital inspections forever?
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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The fate of Public Health England
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Why the mistake in the People Plan matters
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Prepare for a winter of discontent
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Hancock’s full hour
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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The unfolding scandal at East Kent
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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A tale of three regions
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Why the Cumberlege review is being buried
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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How covid turned NHS finances on their head
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Running the health service in a time of covid
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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HSJ Health Check special: Out of Adversity... Rapid change, NHS & Industry working together
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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ICS' role in the recovery
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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What will the next six months bring for the NHS?
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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The vanishing BAME review
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Under the radar: What are we missing while coronavirus dominates?
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May 28, 2020 |
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Is ‘move fast and break things’ working for NHS X?
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May 21, 2020 |
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How the NHS performed during the peak
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May 14, 2020 |
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Testing, tracing and mortality
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May 07, 2020 |
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A covid-linked syndrome may be emerging in children
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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After the peak - recovery, restoration, reform
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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HSJ Health Check special: The NHS’s legal risk over covid-19
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Empty beds, death numbers, and non-covid care
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Braced for coronavirus peak pressure
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Coronavirus crisis grips the NHS
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Covid-19 hits London
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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The great coronavirus reconfiguration
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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What next for the A&E four-hour target?
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Are the government’s priorities in order?
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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The ups and downs from the new NHS staff survey
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Has NHS England got too much power?
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Six home truths from an outgoing national director
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Care quality at a crossroads
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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What’s in the new NHS planning guidance?
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Digital twins: Babylon does integration and an ICS leadership exclusive
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Off target: The four-hour standard and how long waits do harm
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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A&E, sexual assault on mental health wards and the future of primary care.
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Why the 2020s are (a bit) better than the 2010s
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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What 2020 has in store: Tech, mental health and workforce
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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What a Conservative majority means for the NHS
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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When noro and flu visit early
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Have the politicians forgotten mental health?
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Election manifesto special
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Pensions crisis latest
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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‘Sane’ Labour’s plans for the NHS
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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The Pauline Philip letter – trusts told to do whatever it takes
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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What the election means for the NHS
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Brexit and the NHS's new billions
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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HSJ Health Check: Episode One
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Oct 18, 2019 |