James Illman

A hospital chief executive has apologised after being filmed telling staff his trust had already decided to outsource its facilities management services despite the organisation's official position being that a decision had yet to be made.

A hospital trust has shut more than 10 per cent of its beds and cut staffing to try to meet a savings target which is one of the highest nationally.

Wes Streeting has vowed to end the NHS's national "command and control" culture and slash targets for local NHS organisations in the next planning guidance, which he said would be "short".

Making the recovery of elective care a priority does not give the NHS "permission" to allow "everything else [to] suffer", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned.

The government has refused to reaffirm its pledge to return the NHS to hitting the four-hour A&E standard by the end of this parliament after a spokesman admitted to HSJ "we cannot do everything at once".

Norfolk's three acute hospital trusts have announced plans for a new group model led by a single chair and chief executive from April, in a move that would mean axing trust-level CEO and chair positions.

A recently departed trust chair has claimed his resignation was "improperly solicited" by the local integrated care board chair, who he has accused of "shameful" behaviour.

A trust ended a long-standing multi-million deal with an insourcing firm owned by some of its medical consultants after a "supportive intervention" by NHS England, HSJ has learned.

The NHS will carry out a similar level of elective activity next year as it has this year, despite government ambitions to significantly reduce waiting times, under plans agreed with ministers.