Emily Townsend

The CEO of NHS England has ordered trust boards to enforce joint accountability for maternity between medical directors and chief nursing officers, following criticisms of "siloed" leadership in major reviews.

The government has revealed its preferred candidate to be the next chair of the Care Quality Commission, as a cross-bench peer who has overseen major national healthcare reviews.

A medical adviser to the national maternity and neonatal taskforce has been asked to leave by ministers after they recognised "the depth of family concern" about his appointment.

A trust has been slow to provide records to an inquiry examining more than 2,000 deaths, because it underestimated the resources needed, its former CEO has admitted.

Hospitals are persisting with using variable methods and tools to measure the growth of unborn babies, which experts say is leading to avoidable deaths, HSJ can reveal.

The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission is set to become responsible for deciding whether to remove "safe space" protection from whistleblowers' information, which a former MP has called an "inherent conflict".

Maternity services, despite numerous scathing reviews, are still sidelined by trust boards and often poorly understood by medical directors, who view them as being outside the mainstream and delivered by "slightly odd folk", a leading expert has told HSJ.

Maternity services, despite numerous scathing reviews, are still sidelined by trust boards and often poorly understood by medical directors, who view them as being outside the mainstream and delivered by "slightly odd folk", a leading expert has told HSJ.

A senior NHS manager told an inquiry into more than 2,000 deaths he was asked to remove thousands of outstanding safety incident reports while his trust was in the middle of the probe.

NHS England has appointed a charity CEO to the new role of national director of patient experience.