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On the podcast this week, we try to get to the bottom of this week's political furore in the North West, the confusion that ensued and the impact the continued rise in covid admissions could have on normal NHS work. We also discover quite how long...

A major acute trust has confirmed the health service inspectorate has begun a criminal investigation into three incidents at its hospitals.

The North West region is now seeing around 50 new cases of coronavirus per day that are likely to have been caught in hospital by patients being treated for other conditions.

Dr Henrietta Hughes on making the fear of retribution a thing of the past and speaking up business as usual in the NHS

A trust is carrying out an internal investigation after two junior doctors developed covid following an offsite event attended by 22 juniors where social distancing rules were allegedly ignored.

The NHS has 'significantly less' beds now than last winter and parts of the system 'don't have enough', a NHS England and Improvement director has admitted.

It is time to press reset and put in place more streamlined and consistent diagnostic services across the country, writes Fiona Carragher

The staff-side committee of a major hospital trust has stopped working with its leadership, with its chair alleging an 'endemic' culture of 'racism, discrimination and bullying'.

The Care Quality Commission has called for 'ministerial ownership' to end the 'inhumane' care of patients with learning difficulties and autism in hospital - after finding some cases where people had been held in long-term segregation for more than...

Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.

Dr Robert Rintoul shares his insights on screening, diagnostics, retaining workforce and harnessing treatment opportunities for lung cancer services amid covid-19.

The chair of troubled East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is to step down next spring.

Social care reform pushed further down the road, minimal increases to public health at a time of significant population health need and training and education budgets pretty flat - such a settlement will disappoint a great many, writes Richard...

The idea of health and care providers working together has taken on new significance in the fast-evolving system landscape. Providers collaborate in multiple forms and functions, around multiple clinical and non-clinical services, and across...