Alison Moore

A decision to provide substandard dialysis treatment due to "exceptional" capacity pressure was not responsible for high mortality discovered among the service's patients, a trust has claimed.

A doctor who has previously run as a Labour parliamentary candidate has been appointed chief executive of Dartford and Gravesham Trust.

The US tech giant Palantir should not have such a significant role in the NHS and wider UK public sector and represents a “clear mismatch with UK values,” an influential committee of MPs has concluded.In a damning report published on 3 June the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said the increasing presence of the controversial firm in UK public services amounted to an “unacceptable point of weakness” for the government.1The report highlights particular issues with Palantir's Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract, awarded by NHS England in November 2023 and valued at up to £330m over seven years. It urges ministers to exercise the February 2027 “break clause” in the contract for the platform, which connects disparate sources of patient data across the NHS.The same day England's national data guardian, Nicola Byrne, issued a statement calling for “clarity” over concerns that Palantir has been allowed “unlimited access” to patient data as part of its FDP work, as first reported by the Financial Times .2In their report the MPs argued that Palantir is “far from the only company capable of providing the data analysis 'middleware' required by public bodies.” The government should either develop an in-house replacement …

A Care Quality Commission report into an ambulance trust is still yet to be published more than 18 months after the inspectors visited, in what is thought to be the longest delay of its kind.

An integrated care board owes a council "north of £40m" for the costs of accommodating patients after discharge, a councillor has claimed.

Two new theatres were forced to shut for nearly six months after opening "without the necessary due diligence", according to a review seen by HSJ.

Trusts must check records stretching back to 2016 to ensure that any failings which have taken place in their mortuaries has been reported to the regulator.

Members of staff from yet another NHS trust have been sacked for inappropriately viewing patient medical records, HSJ can reveal.

Theatres have shut and equipment has broken down as the heatwave causes widespread disruption across the NHS's ageing estate.

An NHS manager died after an urgent referral was "recategorised" and a triage time of six weeks was arranged instead.