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Zoe Tidman

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Senior correspondent at Health Service Journal, with special focus on NHS infrastructure and net zero efforts | Press Awards #30under30 Let me know what's going on at zoe.tidman@hsj.co.uk 📧

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Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Full picture of the widespread data breaches being commited by NHS staff - excl investigation from HSJ @zoetidman.bsky.social with Sky News www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex...
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Exclusive: Hundreds sacked for snooping on patient records
More than 200 NHS staff have been sacked and around 2,000 others sanctioned for inappropriately viewing patient records over the past five years, HSJ can reveal.
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Henry Anderson @henryanderson1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Dozens of NHS staff accessed the medical records of Southport attack victims without permission. The trust was not planning to inform patients until contacted by HSJ exclusive from @zoetidman.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/liverpool-un...
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Exclusive: Southport attack victim accuses trust of ‘cover up’ over care records breach
Hospital staff inappropriately accessed the medical records of victims of the 2024 mass stabbing at a dance class in Southport, HSJ can reveal.
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Nearly 50 staff at Liverpool hospital trust disciplined for accessing the records of the victims of the Southport Attack. One victim accuses the trust of a ‘cover up’ over the breach. Exclusive by @zoetidman.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/liverpool-un...
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Exclusive: Southport attack victim accuses trust of ‘cover up’ over care records breach
Hospital staff inappropriately accessed the medical records of victims of the 2024 mass stabbing at a dance class in Southport, HSJ can reveal.
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Dave West @ HSJ @davewwest.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
CEO forced out by chair wins £1.4m settlement from @zoetidman.bsky.social www.hsj.co.uk/countess-of-...
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Exclusive: CEO forced out by chair wins £1.4m settlement
A trust has agreed a £1.4m settlement with its former chief executive, who was forced out of her role in a coordinated campaign by its then chair and other directors, HSJ has learned.
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Phoebe Davis @phoebeivy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
NEW: At least five of England’s top-rated maternity units have been forced to turn pregnant women away because of “significant and unanticipated increases in demand", despite birth rates falling across the country. @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Top hospitals turn away pregnant women too scared to use ...
Low care ratings at maternity wards across the country have put immense strain on a small number of units
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Exclusive: Major new biosecurity lab gets go-ahead from government after years of uncertainty The new centre in Essex - now expected to cost over £3bn - to support research against future pandemics www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
And the 10-year health plan is out💥 I'll be digging into what this means for NHS infrastructure, & expect lots of other analysis from colleagues at @hsj.co.uk www.gov.uk/government/p...
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10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
Sets out the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Costs of ongoing inquiry into patient deaths risks financial resilience of trust at centre, chief exec tells @hsj.co.uk Essex Partnership gets no extra ££ for Lampard Inquiry - which cost it millions last year: www.hsj.co.uk/essex-partne...
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Cost of inquiry ‘threatens trust’s financial resilience’, says CEO
An ongoing patient safety inquiry could threaten the financial resilience of a trust if a lack of funding continues, a chief executive has warned.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
💥NHS England confirms new rules to boost to capital spend - but only top performers will benefit Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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Ministers sign off capital boost for ‘high-performing’ systems
Top-performing systems will be able to spend up to £25m above their usual capital allocations under an upcoming NHS England rewards scheme, HSJ can reveal.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NHS England tracks how many times care is disrupted each year due to repair backlogs, but not the details New investigation by @hsj.co.uk into over 500 incidents finds unsuitable temperatures is most common issue Findings - and attempt at explaining why - here: www.hsj.co.uk/expert-brief...
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Carbon Copy: Boiling, freezing, failing
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I've been looking into the IVF postcode lottery and how local NHS organisations are funded And found a trend emerged: www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...
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‘Overfunded’ ICBs offer better IVF access
Three of the most "overfunded" integrated care boards are offering greater access to IVF than most of their peers, HSJ can reveal.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Over 700 job cuts planned at major NHS trust this year Second year in a row that hundreds of posts will go at Mid & South Essex FT as it faces financial challenges www.hsj.co.uk/mid-and-sout...
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Second tranche of major job cuts revealed by trust
A large acute trust plans to cut more than 700 additional jobs and admits it will miss key performance targets this year due to its "unsustainable" deficit.
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Mimi Launder @mimilaunder.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Anger rising - particularly from maternity services - around cut to ringfences across maternity, children and prevention. Donna Ockenden said it was "unbelievable" she had to find out from our article that money to improve maternity services was among the slashed pots.
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@HSJnews @hsj.co.uk · 24/04/2025
Long waits for autism diagnosis and treatment – implicated in the suicide of a 17-year-old – will continue unless addressing them is given greater priority by government, an integrated care board has said. www.hsj.co.uk/hertfordshir...
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ICB points to lack of government support after teenager’s suicide
Long waits for autism diagnosis and treatment - implicated in the suicide of a 17-year-old - will continue unless addressing them is given greater priority by government, an integrated care board has ...
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
More than £5m has been spent on an inquiry into mental health deaths in Essex so far, @hsj.co.uk can reveal Families have been waiting for answers since one was first launched in 2021, with hearings still ongoing New story: www.hsj.co.uk/mental-healt...
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hearings for the Lampard Inquiry into at least 2,000 mental health deaths in Essex restart next week Final sessions will be late next year - nearly six years after Essex MH inquiry was launched lampardinquiry.org.uk/upcoming-hea...
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Upcoming hearings - The Lampard Inquiry - investigating mental health deaths in Essex
Warning – Potentially distressing content. Please be aware that the hearings may contain descriptions of death and suicide, from the start and throughout, which some viewers may find distressing. Due ...
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Mimi Launder @mimilaunder.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
ICB spend will be reduced to an average of around £19 per population head, with some flexibility between ICBs. The target - which must be hit at a regional level - represents first firm details on how 50% overall cut to ICBs will be implemented. www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Project teams for the most delayed 40 'new hospitals' are now being stood down @hsj.co.uk understands NHS trusts must front redundancy costs themselves - which could run into millions nationally Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
Trusts must cover their own redundancy costs caused by delays to projects in the New Hospital Programme, despite hopes they would be covered centrally, HSJ has learned.
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Jack Serle @jackserle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Assura has sold itself to a private consortium including US corporate giant KKR for £1.6bn. Assura owns hundreds of GP surgeries and health centres, according to the FT. www.ft.com/content/3993...
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NHS landlord agrees £1.6bn takeover by KKR consortium
London-listed group Assura rejects rival offer that would have kept it in the public markets
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@HSJnews @hsj.co.uk · 08/04/2025
A panel set up by an integrated care board to review its plans for closing a hospital has called the proposals “hasty” and “utterly inadequate”. www.hsj.co.uk/mid-and-sout...
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‘Hasty’ hospital closure plan criticised by ICB-commissioned report
A panel set up by an integrated care board to review its plans for closing a hospital has called the proposals "hasty" and "utterly inadequate".
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Millions of ££ have been spent on 'new hospitals' now placed in long grass The outcome? Around £150m may need to be written off, acc early figures seen by @hsj.co.uk New story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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£150m ‘wasted’ planning for ‘paused’ new hospitals
More than £150m spent planning "new hospital" projects which are now in the long grass may need to be written off, according to estimates seen by HSJ.
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@HSJnews @hsj.co.uk · 31/03/2025
Lung cancer patients at a major trust were on waiting lists for so long that their disease progressed to a stage where it was no longer treatable. www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...
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Cancer patients missed chance for treatment due to 100-day waits, trust admits
Lung cancer patients at a major trust were on a waiting list for so long that their disease progressed to a stage where it was no longer treatable.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 31/03/2025
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Scores of English councils could go bankrupt when hidden Send debt reappears
Deficits of £5.2bn have been put aside for seven years in accounting fix that ends on 31 March 2026
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
When will promised 'new hospitals' be built? I've seen letters to trusts (via FOI) that give slightly different dates than announced for wave two schemes Looks like Watford & Leicester are front of queue
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Henry Anderson @henryanderson1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Excl: Row as NHS commissioners refuse to pay for weightloss drugs that a company is "intensively" marketing to patients. (£) High cost and large numbers of eligible patients mean issue is a "ticking timebomb" for NHS, says one boss www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Deteriorating hospital estate is causing 'moral injury' to staff whose ability to provide care is impacted, boss of delayed Essex rebuild says Interesting to see NHS leaders speaking up about this New interview: www.hsj.co.uk/the-princess...
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CEO: Staff suffering ‘moral injury’ from poor estates
Staff are suffering "moral injury" as deteriorating estates disrupt their ability to provide care, a chief executive whose hospital rebuild has been delayed has warned.
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Sidmouth, in east Devon, has 1,100 residents over the age of 80 compared with just 842 under 30s – yet somehow, it works An absolute delight of a read from @yennahsmart.bsky.social, one of the rising stars on the Times data team www.thetimes.com/article/9c8a...
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Welcome to Sidmouth, where over-90s are having the time of their lives
The Devon town has only 842 residents under 30 — and 1,100 over 80 — and yet somehow it works, thanks to a strong sense of community and plenty of willing volunteers
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Ellie Pearson-Martin @elliemartin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Important findings about medicine shortages from new @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social research covered by the Guardian today 👇
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
☀️Solar panels at NHS hospitals have been backed by £100m for next year Should make a decent dent in greening NHS estate and cutting bills - but still lots of trusts without ££ for now www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Great British Energy to cut bills for hospitals and schools
Great British Energy's first project will put rooftop solar panels on 200 schools and 200 hospitals - cutting energy bills.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New & exclusive: Head of '40 new hospitals' programme moves to new role at NHS England Natalie Forrest had been in charge at DHSC for last four years: www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/ne...
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New hospitals chief moves to NHSE
The head of the New Hospital Programme is set to move to a new role within the programme from next month, HSJ can reveal.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A new dawn for private finance to build in the NHS? @hsj.co.uk understands a key London deal is moving along, with next step all-important Treasury approval in London corro Ben Clover's latest newsletter: hsj.co.uk/expert-brief...
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London Eye: Less money for London
Essential insight into England's biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 19/03/2025
One person dies from listeria infection potentially linked to desserts supplied to NHS
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One person dies from listeria infection potentially linked to desserts supplied to NHS
One person has died from a listeria infection potentially linked to desserts supplied to NHS hospitals and care homes, according to UK health officials.
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Mid and South Essex FT has received two of the worst scores in the 2024 staff survey for an English NHS trust First is the percentage of staff who often think about leaving (42%) Second is the proportion of staff who would recommend as a place to work (35%) Dark blue is trust score:
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Henry Anderson @henryanderson1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
£7bn NHS deficit "scared the living daylights" out of government, NHS England CEO Jim Mackey is understood to have told colleagues. Sir Jim has told trusts to outsource cleaning staff and cut back-office costs. Difficult to see how that will fill the gap www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
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Mimi Launder @mimilaunder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Massive couple of days in the NHS. NHSE to be abolished. Wes Streeting says in email to staff that the merger is a reflection of a "fragmented system holding us back". Just yesterday ICBs were told to cut their running costs in half by December. t.co/ZlhLi04fKw
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Zoe Tidman @zoetidman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🚨 NHS England is to be abolished, gov announces Breaking story in full in @hsj.co.uk www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
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NHSE to be formally abolished
Government will legislate to abolish NHS England and make it "fully integrated" into the Department of Health and Social Care.
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