Healthcare Leader

Healthcare Leader is dedicated to aiding decision-makers within the NHS as they work on transforming health and social care in their communities. Given the current difficulties facing the healthcare sector, Healthcare Leader provides a space for local NHS and government leaders to exchange creative solutions to the financial and care-related issues they encounter. By integrating The Commissioning Review, a top publication for clinical commissioning groups, Healthcare Leader will expand its audience to include others in the health sector, such as local government officials, Vanguard projects, and those involved in Sustainability and Transformation (STP) initiatives.

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Two London ICBs explore merger

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

North Central London ICB and North West London ICB are exploring merging as a way to reduce costs. In a bulletin from the North Central London chief executive, Frances O’Callaghan, it was revealed that NHS England national and regional leaders had ‘indicated their support’ for this ‘direction of travel’ after reviewing the ICBs’ cost savings plans that were submitted at the end of May.
How to make the most of existing estates

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The NHS is facing a tough future financially and has been for a long time; ICBs – having been asked recently to deliver a 50% cut in running costs – will be looking very carefully at how they continue to provide excellent patient care and reduce their outgoings. The three shifts the government wants to achieve for the NHS will need the NHS estate to be adaptable to change to support new models of care such as neighbourhood hubs.
Guide to optimising NHS estates launched by NHSPS

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

A new guide has launched to help NHS leaders optimise the use of their estates and ‘support the ambitions’ of the upcoming 10-year plan. The guide, published by NHS Property Services (NHSPS), looks at how to assess demand and property supply, understanding space utilisation and weighing options for transformation, savings and reinvestment. It follows a survey from NHSPS that found that nearly nine in 10 leaders have low to medium awareness of how their estate is currently being used.
Modular building framework updated by NHS SBS

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has published an updated version of its modular building framework, to ‘meet the urgent needs’ of the NHS and other public services. The framework agreement, active from 12 June 2025 to 11 June 2029, will enable NHS organisations who wish to purchase, hire or lease a modular building access to various solutions from pre-vetted vendors.
Patients to access clinical trials through NHS App

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

Patients will be able to access clinical trials through the NHS App under changes set to be unveiled in the 10-year plan, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said. The initiative will allow millions of patients to search for and sign up for trials via the NIHR Be Part of Research service on the NHS App, with the ambition to eventually automatically match patients with studies based on their health data and interests.
GPs should be able to run local hospitals, health secretary says

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

GPs ‘should be able to run local hospitals’ as part of the reforms to the NHS, the health secretary has said. During a speech at NHS Confederation Expo conference on Thursday, Wes Streeting said the NHS ‘should not be bound by traditional expectations of how services should be arranged’.
Cervical screening interval changed for low risk women

1 week ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The cervical cancer screening intervals are to change from three to five years for women with a negative HPV test aged 25 to 49 years. From July, the changes will also mean that individuals whose sample indicates the presence of HPV or who have a recent history of HPV will continue to be invited to more frequent screenings. England had already moved to longer screening intervals for women aged 50 to 64 years.
Do not worry about who controls neighbourhoods, says NHS CEO

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The health service needs to not worry about who controls neighbourhoods going forward, the chief executive of NHS England, Sir James Mackey has said. Speaking at NHS Confed Expo today (11 June), Sir Jim said leaders had just seen the latest version of the 10-year plan this morning, which he said was ‘really impressive’, with neighbourhood care as a ‘big standout’ part of it.
Chancellor pledges £29bn funding boost for NHS

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

The chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a £29bn real terms funding boost for the NHS over the next three years, in her spending review today. This equates to a 3% increase in annual day-to-day spending from 2023/24 to 2028/29, making the spending £226bn by the end of the period.
Women undertreated for heart valve disease, study finds

2 weeks ago | healthcareleadernews.com | Beth Gault

Women and those from deprived communities who have heart valve disease are less likely to be referred to specialist care, research has shown. Alongside those from ethnic minority groups, women are also less likely to have intervention for aortic stenosis, the study of more than 154,000 patient records concluded.