I am the editor of HSJ, the No1 source of news on the NHS, and have reported on UK health policy for over 20 years. Subscribe for our unmatched coverage.
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What is the biggest problem created by the government's new health bill abolishing @NHSEngland ? No need to wait to find out hsj.co.uk/comment/stuck-in-t…
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V few in the NHS will mourn Streeting's departure for the reasons I explain here: hsj.co.uk/comment/the-street… but @rcolvile is right that the service is as close to rudderless as I can remember in my 24 years as @HSJEditor
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Me for @thetimes - link here thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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Three things ye must know about the single patient record: First, it is 'a record', Second, it is for 'patients', and, Thirdly there is only one. Apart from that we know almost nothing. (apologies to Blackadder)
With the Single Patient Record, NHS staff will be able to view your health and care history securely, wherever you're treated.
Here’s @PreetKGillMP with the key things you need to know.
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Poor old @SteveBarclay His battle against the NHS EDI blob reversed at a stroke ;-)
CEOs given six months to take antisemitism training ift.tt/r9sRiVW
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Too many NHS staff still find having a quick peak at the medial records of patients caught up in national events a bit of harmless fun. It's isn't and the @CareQualityComm @ICOnews and @jamesmurray_ldn need to do more to prevent it hsj.co.uk/comment/when-is-a-…
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May 27
Markerfield by-election bang smack in the middle
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Resident doctors will strike from June 15-19 as part of their long-running dispute with the Government over pay, the BMA has announced. How will new health secretary @jamesmurray_ldn respond?
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May 27
When he was PM, Blair was advised by people wth world class brains like Simon Stevens among others. Like many ex-ministers he is finding that expertise is much harder to access when you have to pay for it (or accept it from those with vested interests).
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Lots of praise for this and rightly so, but this really feels like one of the weaker and under cooked parts
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May 27
Here's a little bit of NHS history. The first new Foundation Trust in TEN years has just been created hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulat…
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'I was a gladiator every day as health secretary' @wesstreeting tells @bbcnickrobinson bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002ws…
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V interesting. @AngelaRayner turned down the chance to replace Wes Streeting as health secretary thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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May 15
Why is it that @BBCNews - of all media outlets - is so reluctant to credit stories to the journalists who originally broke them. Happens again and again. Witness this grudging 'sort of acknowlegment' of @zoetidman 's shocking southport exclusive bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmp…
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Alastair McLellan retweeted
May 15
🚨Nearly 50 staff checked medical records of Southport attack victims without good reason
🚨Patients not told until @HSJnews discovered breach
🚨 Teacher Leanne Lucas says she is 'absolutely devastated' and calls decision not to inform her for nearly 2 yrs 'a new low'
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Shocking and astonishing exlcusive from @zoetidman reveals that survivors of the Southport mass stabbing attack had their care records inappropriately accessed by NHS staff hsj.co.uk/liverpool-universi… 1/2
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...and just as shocking is the fact that the trust didn't tell the affected patients until HSJ discovered the breach 2/2
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Alastair McLellan retweeted
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📊 NHS England has today published end of year figures for cancer and diagnostic performance, which show two key targets set out in the operational planning guidance for 2025/26 have been missed 🧵
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Alastair McLellan retweeted
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The Streeting legacy - Health Bill bang on 200 pages just dropped on Parliament
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May 14
This is the real reason behind the good NHS figures published today. They are largely down to removing people from waiting lists who shouldn't have been on them. NOT - especially - because more people were seen/treated.
Elective target hit after spike in ‘unreported removals’ ift.tt/nGT2YUA
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So farewell @wesstreeting - the 21st century's 6th best health secretary (there have been 13 - not including Coffey).
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Streeting's resignation letter
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