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NewsExclusive: Minister proposed £10 monthly ‘insurance style’ fee for NHS dentistry
A health minister has suggested citizens could pay a monthly fee — similar to an insurance scheme — to be entitled to free NHS dentistry, at recent meetings about how to solve the crisis in the service, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: ICB small print reveals raft of new treatment restrictions
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalHewitt’s ICS using health inequality cash to ‘offset deficit’
An integrated care system whose chair said addressing health inequalities must be prioritised has admitted using dedicated funds to offset its financial deficit.
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News‘Keep the faith in ICBs’, urges national leader
Policymakers must “keep the faith” in integrated care boards, and should not seek to “carve up” their role by removing responsibility for overseeing provider trusts, a national leader has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust holds CEO post to consider ‘integration’ with neighbour
A trust has decided not to advertise its vacant chief executive post after system leaders commissioned a review into “integration opportunities” with a neighbouring provider.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A closer look at the FDP in action
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Running rings around the ICB
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalTrust appeals to NHSE chiefs over EPR funding fears
An acute trust’s digital chief has raised concerns the £3.4bn tech funding announced in this year’s Budget may not be available for a new system-wide electronic patient record.
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NewsNHSE declares rationalisation is over after cutting 7,000 posts
NHS England has completed its restructure, reducing its workforce by 30 per cent, in what it says is “one of the largest public sector transformations in the UK”.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The ‘race to the bottom’ in ICS finances
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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News£500m cut to local integration funds revealed
Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021–22.
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NewsNHS overly protective of its workforce, says social services leader
The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has accused the NHS of wanting to “protect its workforce” at the cost of developing a more effective health and care system.
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CommentICBs have had little impact on the ingrained variation in NHS care
Variation between the best and worst performers in the NHS’s drive to increase elective activity is getting worse in many areas reports the Medical Technology Group.
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NewsRadical rule changes would boost NHS recovery, say chiefs
The vast majority of ICB chiefs believe “drastically reducing data sharing restrictions” would help them achieve their aims, according to HSJ’s survey.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs plan pay bill squeeze and provider consolidation
Strict pay bill controls and more provider consolidation are key to recovery plans in most integrated care systems, according to an HSJ survey of NHS leaders.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The five lessons from the second year of ICSs
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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HSJ LocalCEO threatened with sack after ICS’s financial meltdown
A local system chief executive who warned integrated care boards lacked the power to hold trusts to account has effectively been threatened with being sacked because of poor performance by providers.
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NewsICBs to get new ‘capability’ ratings
Integrated care boards would be rated on their capability — as “excelling”, “achieving”, “progressing” or making “insufficient progress” — under draft NHS England proposals for a new assessment process.
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CommentThe police's rushed withdrawal from mental healthcare is creating serious risks
Challenges in implementing the Right Care Right Person policy reveal concerns over resource allocation, local coordination, and potential risks to vulnerable individuals, writes Sean Duggan
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CommentTrust collaboratives and groups must not be ‘mergers by another name’
Matthew Swindells explains how shared governance, common goals and local autonomy can drive improved healthcare outcomes in a complex environment