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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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Oct 11, 2024 • 35min
The Ticking Timebomb
This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to talk about England's crumbling hospitals plus whether or not the money will be there for the elective catch-up

Oct 4, 2024 • 32min
The future of the CQC
This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to talk about what happens next for the Care Quality Commission, plus one of the biggest issues faced by the services

Sep 27, 2024 • 36min
The “broken” blowback
This week the team discuss what the Labour party conference means for the NHS, plus the latest on AI and cybersecurity following the summer’s major ransomware attack

Sep 20, 2024 • 34min
HSJ Podcast: Streeting 'reads the Riot Act'
This week guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the big Streeting meeting plus a new player in primary care.

Sep 13, 2024 • 46min
HSJ Podcast: Inquiries - who are they for?
Guest host Ben Clover is joined by Emily Townsend and Zoe Tidman to look at the first weeks of the Thirlwall inquiry into the management response neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester, the Lampard inquiry into the deaths of mental health patients in Essex and the module of the covid inquiry covering the NHS response to the pandemic.
The team discuss what we’re likely to learn and what impact they will have on how services, boards and the wider NHS manage themselves.

Sep 6, 2024 • 26min
Getting what you pay for
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcat guest host Ben Clover is joined by reporters Henry Anderson and Mimi Launder.
Henry takes us through the latest in what the new government does and does not expect this winter as the service is told there’s nt going to be any extra resources this year. Mimi analyses the next steps in the government’s dispute with GPs and what might happen now the British Medical Association has promised to ramp-up its collective action.

Aug 23, 2024 • 27min
Chairs in the hot seat
This week guest host Ben Clover is joined by Nick Kituno and Emily Townsend. They discuss one of HSJ's most-commented stories of recent months: Chairs - what they do, what they should do and whether they get paid enough. The team also analyse the recent CQC inpatient survey, which has some counter-intuitive results

Aug 9, 2024 • 29min
Carrying the can for corridor care
This week's HSJ podcast looks at the latest development in Shropshire's troubled health system and hospitals, and NHS England's move to ramp up the rollout of the federated data platform.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/shrewsbury-and-telford-hospital-nhs-trust/ceo-who-led-trust-through-scandals-announces-departure/7037595.article
https://www.hsj.co.uk/technology-and-innovation/nhse-u-turn-mandates-trust-use-of-the-fdp/7037578.article

Aug 2, 2024 • 37min
Rachel Reeves' blueprint for the NHS
This week's HSJ Health Check podcast discusses the Chancellor's big interventions in the NHS pay, funding and reform - and fresh HSJ analysis showing the spread of huge deficits around England. With Nick Kituno, Henry Anderson and Dave West.
Read - Revealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/revealed-icss-planning-the-largest-deficits/7037571.article

Jul 26, 2024 • 29min
It’s crunch time for general practice
On this episode we unpick the fast moving situation surrounding the GP ballot for “collective action” and the crucial pay negotiations between the BMA and the new government.
We also discuss a recent mortality review done by long-troubled Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust and why campaigners are still calling for a statutory public inquiry into avoidable deaths at the trust over the last decade.