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CommentNHS staff are refusing vaccinations as a form of quiet protest
Considering the low flu vaccine uptake among staff, the NHS’s 2025-26 urgent and emergency care plan feels out of touch with workforce realities, writes Dr Jahangir Alom
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NewsProvider sells NHS services after financial collapse
A private provider has collapsed and sold businesses running at least eight urgent care centres to another firm.
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News£370m capital announced to support urgent care recovery
The NHS will be given £370m of capital funding to help it improve “suboptimal” urgent and emergency care services by this winter, the government has announced.
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News‘Blame shunting’ by providers leads to poor emergency care, says NHSE
The ‘inability or unwillingness’ of some NHS and social care providers to work together has contributed to an ’unimaginable’ deterioration in emergency care performance, according to NHS England
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NewsRevealed: The trusts and systems sharing £150m emergency care fund
NHS England has revealed which organisations have won a share of a £150m capital fund to reward emergency care performance improvements – with significant amounts going to acute and children’s trusts.
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HSJ Local‘Lack of trust’ in provider’s leadership uncovered by NHSE
An NHS England review into one of the busiest A&Es in the country has raised concerns about the behaviour of senior doctors and a “general lack of trust” in its leadership.
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NewsNHSE axes £69m fund designed to improve patient flow
NHS England has axed a £69m tech programme aimed at improving A&E waiting times to plough the money into electronic patient record systems instead, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCEO accuses trusts of defying NHSE target
Acute trusts in the West Midlands have been criticised by an ambulance service CEO for not implementing an NHS England instruction to keep handover times under 45 minutes.
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HSJ LocalTrust’s surge space death sparks CQC concerns
Vulnerable patients at a struggling A&E died or needed intensive care after their needs “were not met” while being cared for in surge spaces and waiting areas, inspectors have warned after an unannounced inspection.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Are ‘unambitious’ targets here to stay?
Addressing urgent and emergency care recovery, including reducing A&E wait times and corridor care, remain top operational priorities for the NHS. This week’s Recovery Watch newsletter, by senior correspondent Matt Discombe, reports on progress towards these goals.
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NewsParamedics told to listen to podcasts while queuing for A&E handovers
Paramedics have complained of a “disrespectful” instruction to listen to podcasts while queuing to hand over patients to A&E, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSeven trusts still to set maximum ambulance handover times
Seven trusts among the poorest performers for ambulance handovers have yet to to implement the flagship NHS England policy designed to tackle the problem.
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NewsCrucial emergency care system to be scrapped by NHSE within months
An IT system that prevents 999 call-handling services from being overwhelmed is set to be withdrawn by NHS England in an effort to save money.
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NewsKey recovery target hit
Ambulance services hit a crucial “interim” target for responding to the bulk of emergency calls last month, and showed marked improvements for the most serious category of incidents.
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NewsNHSE chiefs think A&E recovery plan ‘lacks ambition’
NHS England’s new leadership has criticised near-completed drafts of the long-awaited national recovery plan for urgent and emergency care, with senior figures concerned it “lacks ambition”, HSJ has learned.
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CommentAI triage is not science fiction
Charlotte Refsum advocates for the use of AI-powered navigation tools to free up millions of appointments, reduce wait times, and revolutionise the NHS
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NewsDeparting NHSE boss ‘calls out’ A&E variation
NHS England’s outgoing chief operating officer has claimed there is too much unwarranted variation in the service’s emergency care performance.
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NewsMackey: I will stick up for the NHS
The new chief of NHS England has said he will fight the service’s corner if he has policy disagreements with ministers, but that his organisation was a “complication” the government could no longer “justify” preserving.
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Insight BriefingsRecovery Watch: In search of the urgent care plan
Addressing urgent and emergency care recovery, including reducing A&E wait times and corridor care, remain top operational priorities for the NHS. This week’s Recovery Watch newsletter, by senior correspondent Matt Discombe, reports on progress towards these goals.
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HSJ PartnersBeating burnout and backlogs in radiology – ensuring a sustainable teleradiology solution
Radiology services are facing unprecedented strain due to a widening gap: while patient care demands are skyrocketing, evidenced by more than 4.2 billion annual imaging procedures worldwide1, a severe global shortage leaves two-thirds of the world’s population with limited or no radiologist access2.