Matt Discombe

Long ambulance handover delays have surged in the Midlands, the North West, and the North East and Yorkshire as the winter emergency care crisis deepens, HSJ analysis reveals.

Long ambulance handover delays hit record levels in the past week as the winter crisis in the NHS reached its height.

A trust has been waiting more than a year for a Care Quality Commission report into its emergency department where inspectors found fire safety risks.

Patients who spent more than 12 hours in A&E were twice as likely to die within 30 days as those treated, transferred or discharged within two hours, a landmark study shared with HSJ reveals.

A new plan authored by six leading expert groups and shared exclusively with HSJ has concluded the NHS "got the winter it prepared for" and warned poor standards of urgent and emergency care has been "normalised and accepted".

The NHS should create a "single 24/7 service" for urgent and emergency care to address what is currently a "fragmented and disjointed" system, six expert groups have said.

A raft of reforms NHS England and government are proposing to address the crisis in urgent and emergency care can be revealed, after a draft of the recovery plan was obtained by HSJ.

The NHS plans to trial radical changes to how urgent and emergency care is paid for in 2025-26, as part of a new improvement plan for the sector, HSJ can exclusively reveal.

An integrated care board has blamed an audiology services provider for causing "significant increases" in waiting times - sparking a complaint of "bullying" by the company, which also accuses the ICB of not providing enough funding.

A single electronic patient record is to be shared by three trusts across a system in a deal announced this week.