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Cap on elective care funding to be scrapped
NHS England is scrapping plans to cap how much trusts can earn from elective work in 2025-26.
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Mackey: I will stick up for the NHS
The new chief of NHS England has said he will fight the service’s corner if he has policy disagreements with ministers, but that his organisation was a “complication” the government could no longer “justify” preserving.
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ICS accused of ‘systemic culture of revising plans’
The integrated care system with the biggest overspend in 2024-25 has been told it has a “systemic culture of revising plans”, in NHS England’s latest attempt at intervention.
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Revealed: ICBs spending the most and least on staffing
New figures shared with HSJ reveal how much each integrated care board spends on its staffing, with a two-fold variation per head of population.
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Five systems forecast £300m overspend next year
Five systems are still forecasting they cannot meet their financial target in 2025-26, but the national gap in plans has fallen from £4.4bn to £300m in the last few weeks.
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Exclusive: Government admits cutting mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental health services is being cut for the first time in several years, the government will admit to Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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ICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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Trust appoints neighbour’s chair after 16-month search
A trust with long-standing leadership and performance problems has appointed a neighbouring provider’s chair, after 16 months of temporary arrangements.
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The NHS must manage its finances ethically
Iain Murray stresses the crucial role of NHS CFOs in navigating service sustainability, advocating for long-term planning, and ensuring ethical financial management
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‘Reform standstill’ threatened over ICB cuts
Service reform and “strategic commissioning” may be “brought to a standstill” by steep cuts to integrated care boards, leaders have warned.
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ICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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NHSE director leaves to run FT’s subco
A senior procurement director at NHS England is leaving this summer to run the wholly-owned subsidiary of a large London acute trust.
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Trust ‘slow and bureaucratic’ in tackling deficit
A trust under NHS England’s highest level of scrutiny has been “slow and bureaucratic” in response to its poor financial position, and hampered by “diametrically opposed views” among staff, a report has found.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Less money for London
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NHS stroke care can be a postcode lottery
Innovative transformation of stroke services has the potential to save lives, prevent disability, and reduce spending, writes Deb Lowe
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
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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CEO of ‘outstanding’ trust to retire early
The chief executive of an “outstanding” trust is to take early retirement, the provider has announced.
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NHSE slows progress on national procurement strategy
NHS England is scaling back its ambitions for NHS procurement less than 18 months after it published a major new strategy intended to give the NHS a “a globally renowned” healthcare procurement operation.
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ICBs ordered to cut costs by 50%
Integrated care boards have been told to cut their running costs in half by October.
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New NHSE incentive scheme ‘doesn’t make sense’, experts warn
Details of how a new £150m NHS England urgent and emergency care performance incentives fund will be allocated have been revealed – but experts have warned favouring acute trusts in this manner “doesn’t make sense”.