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DHSC

Top NHS trusts given new powers to improve care

By Liz Wells 13 November 2025

High-performing NHS trusts are to be given more independence to deliver faster, better and more personalised care.

CYBER SECURITY

Tough new laws to strengthen defences against cyber attacks on NHS

By Liz Wells 12 November 2025

Proposed new laws will strengthen cyber defences for essential public services, including the NHS.

MENTAL HEALTH

Care workers charged following mental health unit investigation

By Lee Peart 10 November 2025

Two care workers have been charged following an investigation into The Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

REGULATION

Trust 'bringing in new ways of working' following inadequate rating

By Lee Peart 06 November 2025

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has said it is ‘bringing in new ways of working’ after its leadership was rated inadequate by the CQC.

MATERNITY

Call for unannounced CQC investigations following maternity care allegations

By Lee Peart 06 November 2025

The Government has been called on to allow unannounced CQC investigations after a New Statesman and Channel 4 News investigation into maternity services at Oxford University NHS Hospitals Foundatio...

REGULATION

Requires improvement rating a 'catalyst for change', says trust

By Lee Peart 03 November 2025

St George’s University Hospital Trust has said a requires improvement CQC rating had been a ‘catalyst for change’ after the regulator found evidence of a ‘blame culture’.

GMC

GMC reviews key workplace and patient safety guidance

By Liz Wells 31 October 2025

The GMC has launched a review of key guidance to doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs)

REGULATION

Mental health trust criticised following death of arrested man

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

A coroner has criticised Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) for not running a Saturday service for arrested people after a man took his own life.

REGULATION

Trust pleads guilty over death of teenage girl

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHST) has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment to a 16-year-old girl with severe mental health difficulties who took her ow...

REGULATION

Mental health charity rated inadequate by CQC

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

Mental health charity St Andrews Healthcare Northampton has been downgraded from requires improvement to inadequate by the CQC following inspection of six services.

REGULATION

Regulator makes record illicit weight loss medicine seizure

By Lee Peart 27 October 2025

Officers from the Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have made a record seizure at an illicit weight loss medicine production facility.