Good afternoon, and welcome to this fortnight’s edition of the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, this time from me, Jeremy.

Directors sitting on multiple hospital trust boards without a clear purpose has “shrunk the pool” and is creating “too much of a closed mentality”, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs.

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Every year, patients in England die from structural heart diseases when earlier intervention could have saved them.

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The government is missing two of its five clinical trials targets, despite declaring last month it had "hit" its headline goal on trial set-up.

Closing two of three consultant-led maternity units run by a hospital group is the best option for safety and staffing, a review by senior local clinical leaders has concluded.

Twenty-one patients died after delayed responses from an ambulance service during June’s heatwave amid a huge spike in serious calls, board papers show.

A Labour councillor who led a local authority for 30 years has been lined up as the first joint integrated care board chair and deputy mayor for health, HSJ has learned.

Three in 20 ambulances reaching patients with a life-threatening emergency have no paramedic as part of their crew in large parts of the country, an HSJ analysis of the latest data has discovered.

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