Henry Anderson

HSJ reporter writing about NHS finance + NHS in Yorks & Lincs: get in touch at [email protected]

DMs open for tip-offs & hellos.

Previous work below:

[Emily Townsend @emilyltownsend]

EXCL: Several senior internal figures have raised fundamental safety concerns to @HSJnews over CQC move to inspect some GP practices without clinical input

They claim it is "prioritising numbers over patient safety" in rush to meet 9k inspections by Sept

https://t.co/g0btc2rBxd

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Some NHS trusts have now all but exhausted the cash they built up during the covid pandemic - meaning they may struggle to pay suppliers on time.

There's only so many years you can keep running at this rate...

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

NEW: The NHS has been accused of using suppliers as a "free overdraft"

One industry body said its members were owed £40m in late payments but had received no response from NHS England.

One trust paid just one in ten invoices on time.

https://t.co/yWe0D6M2Q5

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

The committee system in Holyrood is already one that needs a major shake up but today’s publication of the proposed convenorships make it a complete and utter farce - the parliament is being brought into disrepute

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Seems like NHS England is still trying to get the planned deficit down in negotiations with individual providers.

I wrote about this year's strangely muted planning round

https://t.co/XNt6x75Sii

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Victory laps at NHS England board meeting over 2025-26. Achievements include:
- No claim on Treasury reserve funding
- Balanced NHS budget overall
- 8 in 10 organisations delivered their financial plan

But, two months into the year, no detail on what the plans are for 2026-27

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

NEW: A trust group is still paying the salary of its former boss.

Jonathan Lofthouse left Humber Health Partnership, amid claims of board disagreements, for an NHS England job.

It has emerged he is still being paid by HHP - which has refused to comment

https://t.co/qI6hRZDid1

[Dean M Thomson @DeanMThomson]

1/ A thread on Johnson Carmichael LLP — and four questions they need to answer.
Peter Murrell has pleaded guilty. The fraud is established. But one question hasn't been answered:
What were the SNP's auditors actually looking at?
https://t.co/MZyBbOaifP

[Emily Townsend @emilyltownsend]

NEW: 33k patients’ data stolen from trust in major hack

— Bedfordshire Hospitals’ patients’ data accessed
— Confidential information was stolen and shared on the dark web, trust reveals
— Data included names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and postcodes

https://t.co/FQAc59Tyds

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

100%: "Foote ‘understood, as few historians do, that the word “history” contains the word “story”.’ "

Academic historians wouldn't take this as a compliment, but Foote's gripping civil war trilogy reads like a novel

[Nick Lloyd @nick_lloy]

New Substack is out!

https://t.co/kOuDUiDGlv

[Sean Russell @SAntoniRussell]

Concussions are a complicated issue in cycling. The protocols are there and they are good, but logistically they are hard to always adhere to.

There is also the culture of riders "bravely" struggling on to compete with.

I wrote about it for @TimesSport
https://t.co/cLDVMbOZwK

[Calum Macdonald @CalumAM]

NEW: Ian Blackford, former SNP Westminster leader, tells @TimesRadio Breakfast that he believes Nicola Sturgeon when she says she spent no time in her kitchen, so didn’t see Murrell’s purchases, Mr Blackford says because:

“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

U turn incoming

[YouGov @YouGov]

Although 59% of Premier League fans believe that VAR has worked badly in the league so far, just 18% take Andy Burnham's stance that the Prem should "get rid" of it altogether

Stop using VAR entirely: 18%
Keep using VAR but change way it is used: 68%
Keep using VAR without changes: 12%

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

Too many NHS staff still find having a quick peak at the medial records of patients caught up in national events a bit of harmless fun. It's isn't and the @CareQualityComm @ICOnews and @jamesmurray_ldn need to do more to prevent it https://t.co/ojhkdGXWRs

[Kathryn Lavery (She/Her)💙 @KathLavery]

And we mean it

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

An opportunity for a new pay restoration campaign?

[Health Service Journal @HSJnews]

Real-terms CEO pay fell 13% in five years https://t.co/dz9ZIzHlfM

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

- Spent nearly five grand on three coffee machines over four years

- Spends 80 quid on 2 kilos of instant coffee

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Entertaining mix of entirely mundane (super glue, £2.50), and completely mad (salt and paper grinders, £2,618)

https://t.co/qgzG8kWA7M

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

https://t.co/8508sfmddz

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS trust says interview panels will have to be ethnically diverse - or they will not go ahead