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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Opening up primary care medicine
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News9,000 roles will go in delayed NHS England restructure
How did they get bloated to this sizeHow did they get bloated to this sizeAround 9,000 roles will be removed during the restructuring of NHS England’s workforce, but some staff members will not know their fate until March 2024, the organisation has admitted.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The forbidden provisions
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRevealed: The integrated care partnerships with no public meetings or minutes
Six integrated care systems have not held any public meetings of their ‘partnership’ boards – and nine have not published any ICP meetings or papers – nearly a year after they were set up.
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NewsICBs which breach delegation terms face NHSE intervention
Integrated care boards must meet immediately with NHSE if they think they are breaching delegation terms for primary pharmacy, optometry and dentistry commissioning.
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NewsICBs lack the data to effectively manage pharmacy, eye and dentistry services
Integrated care boards lack the information to oversee the quality of the primary pharmacy, ophthalmology and dentistry services they took responsibility for at the start of the month, NHSE England has been warned.
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NewsNHSE treats me like ‘a band 7’ says ICB chief
An outspoken integrated care board leader has criticised NHS England’s micromanagement, adding that it was ‘not in the make-up’ of some healthcare chiefs to collaborate.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Bewilderment over new elective targets
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsNine regions to take over £13bn specialised services spend
Nine regional committees will commission specialised services worth £13bn from April, NHS England has decided.
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NewsTen senior health and council leaders drafted in to boost Hewitt ICS review
Leaders from trusts, integrated care systems and local authorities are to take charge of five workstreams within Patricia Hewitt’s review of ICS autonomy and accountability.
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CommentAction needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.
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NewsExclusive: Some ICSs need ‘an awful lot of central control’, says Hewitt
Some integrated care systems still require ‘an awful lot of control’ from the centre, Patricia Hewitt has told HSJ, tempering any expectations that her government-commissioned review will bring about a wholesale roll-back of national performance management.
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NewsCQC could be given ‘enhanced’ role following Hewitt review
The government’s rapid review of integrated care systems will look to “enhance” the role of the Care Quality Commission in regulating them, and will issue its first recommendations in 10 days.
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CommentThe pointless leader
Beverly ‘Bev’ Heaver is NHS Blithering’s head transformationalist and director of the New Perspectives Unit. Here she sets out her vision of perpetual change. As channeled by Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalGive us more power to deal with trust performance, says ICS chief
The leader of a prominent health system says integrated care boards should be given more responsibility to manage the performance of trusts in their area.
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HSJ LocalStaffing bill to be cut by a fifth at ICS
A financially troubled integrated care board has told staff it has to cut the pay bill by 20 per cent, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Commissioning yourself
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsBoard to get anti-racism training as CQC orders cultural improvements
Regulators have told the agency that supplies blood to the NHS to develop a more inclusive culture, after hearing multiple reports of ethnic minority staff being ‘disrespected’ and discriminated against.
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NewsRevealed: Racism a ‘very serious problem’ at NHS agency
The troubled agency that supplies blood to the NHS has a ’very serious problem’ with racism, a staff survey has revealed.
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