Birmingham and Solihull ICS

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Major trust in row with BMA over ‘unacceptable’ locum pay axe

2024-11-01T16:50:00+00:00

University Hospitals Birmingham has become locked in a row with the British Medical Association over its plans to stop paying premium rates for bank staff.

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ICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months

2024-10-25T06:37:00+01:00

One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.

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‘Dangerous’ people should not be admitted to specialist beds, warns CEO

2024-10-14T11:40:00+01:00

Police should work with mental health services to ensure people who pose a danger to society — and show no signs of being mentally unwell — are not inappropriately admitted to rarely available specialist beds, a chief executive has said.

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Three ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits

2024-10-08T04:57:00+01:00

Just three integrated care systems were responsible for nearly one in four 13-week waits for key diagnostic tests in recent months, HSJ analysis of official data has found.

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ICB claws back £25m from struggling neighbours

2024-09-26T11:45:00+01:00

An integrated care board has secured £25m from neighbouring systems to cover the cost of providing emergency care for their residents.

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Integrated care trust to be axed within weeks

2024-09-04T11:29:00+01:00

A first-of-its-kind integrated care trust – set up as part of NHS England’s “new care model” reforms – is set to be legally dissolved within weeks, with its current chief executive moving to an interim role at a nearby provider.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust

Trust to review year-long waiters after woman’s death

2024-08-21T04:20:00+01:00

A mental health trust will review patients not seen by its services for more than a year after a woman died having waited 13 months for a follow-up appointment.

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Revealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS

2024-08-09T04:33:00+01:00

A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.

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Threefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed

2024-07-12T05:35:00+01:00

Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures. 

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Transfusion never events just ‘tip of iceberg’ at troubled trust

2024-07-10T05:35:00+01:00

Fourteen never events recorded at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust’s transfusion service were the “tip of an iceberg”, an external review has concluded.

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New CQC inspections postponed until after election

2024-05-28T10:00:00+01:00

The Care Quality Commission is postponing its long-awaited inspections of integrated care systems even further as it plans to seek approval from a new government, it has announced.

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‘Culture of bullying and undermining’ uncovered in trust’s maternity service

2024-05-24T11:30:00+01:00

Trainee midwives at a struggling trust have raised serious concerns about bullying and feeling afraid to speak up, an NHS England report has revealed.

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New hospital set to open with £40m running cost gap

2024-05-23T04:00:00+01:00

A new hospital which has taken over a decade to deliver will open without all the funding needed to run it, the trust’s chief executive has warned.

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Recovery Watch: The ICBs on the slide against the main elective target

2024-05-08T13:51:00+01:00

Recovering services from the covid crisis is a 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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Trust’s ‘leadership behaviour’ attacked by six ICBs

2024-05-03T04:57:00+01:00

Six integrated care board chiefs in the Midlands have written to an ambulance trust over a “pattern of behaviour” they claim its leadership team has displayed since its Care Quality Commission rating was downgraded.

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Patient experience is often ‘horrendously poor’ admits trust CEO

2024-03-26T05:50:00+00:00

A trust chief executive has warned of the “dire” economic challenge facing his system, saying children and young people are already facing “horrendously poor” experiences due to dependency on out of area beds.

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CEO interview: Richard Kirby, CEO of Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation Trust

2024-03-19T12:32:00+00:00

This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.

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Trust’s leadership downgraded to ‘inadequate’

2024-03-08T03:54:00+00:00

A teaching trust’s leadership has been rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission, as inspectors warned of a “genuine fear” of speaking up and staff feeling unsafe from bullying, sexual harassment, misogyny, and racism.

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Revealed: The investment funds diverted to shore up NHSE accounts

2024-01-30T14:45:00+00:00

HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.

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National director leaves for exec role at teaching trust

2024-01-23T12:23:00+00:00

NHS England’s director of urgent and emergency care is joining a major teaching trust as its chief operating officer.