Dave West

The government is looking for an NHS England chair who has "deep experience" of working in the UK's "health and care system" and is committed to ensuring government ministers can get the information they need from the organisation.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.

Health minister Gillian Merron has declared many patients have a poor experience of NHS care as a result of a "culture that has ignored the voice of staff [and] of patients and families for too long".

The health and social care secretary has asked his department's civil servants to submit innovative policy ideas, saying he will read them all and they will not be filtered by line managers.

Government must "move quickly" to address a lack of diversity in responses to its 10-year plan consultation, one of the strategy advisers has warned.

Two-year waits for children needing help from community services quietly quadrupled last year, while such delays for hospital treatment have been virtually eliminated, due to government targets.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.

NHS England has hired a former adviser to Jeremy Hunt and Sir Sajid Javid as its strategy director.

An ambulance trust chair is leaving after just 10 months to take up an as-yet-unspecified executive role elsewhere in the NHS.

Nearly half of all integrated care boards are due to cut their spending on voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ analysis suggests.