Missing Sunak’s pledge

HSJ Health Check

This week bureau chief Ben Clover is joined by colleagues to discuss some of the biggest stories ahead of the junior doctors’ strike.

Matt Discombe reveals the results of an inquiry into an ambulance trust found to’ve withheld key details of patient deaths from a coroner. The report is damning but some stakeholders have said it is more notable for what it doesn’t cover.

Recorded on Wednesday before the longest junior doctors’ strike yet, James Illman and Henry Anderson explain how NHS England’s finance director may have let the cat out of the bag about something ministers deny – that the huge round of cancellations caused by industrial action mean the service might miss the PM’s pledge to have waiting lists falling.