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Alert over steep rise in handover delays

2024-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

An ambulance trust is warning that delays handing patients over to hospitals have “significantly deteriorated” in the past two months, with one waiting nearly 20 hours.

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Winter pressures funding leads to ‘panic buying,’ says CEO

2024-10-22T06:00:00+01:00

Last-minute national funding to ease winter pressures often leads to “panic buying” and is “not always well spent”, a trust 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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Experienced leader chosen to replace 40-year CEO

2024-10-07T09:00:00+01:00

A trust chief executive with more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare has been chosen to replace one of the longest-serving leaders the NHS has seen.

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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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NHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis

2024-09-23T04:10:00+01:00

Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.

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Former NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB

2024-09-09T05:00:00+01:00

A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.

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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.

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ICB sanctioned for failing to stop trusts’ over-recruitment

2024-08-12T11:40:00+01:00

NHS England has issued enforcement notices to an integrated care board and four of its trusts, warning that the additional staff they have recruited are “not financially affordable”.

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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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Trust refuses to share full data with ICBs, citing ‘counter terrorism’ concerns

2024-08-05T11:16:00+01:00

An ambulance trust with some of England’s worst handover delays has refused to share some patient data with local partners on the grounds the information relates to “counter terrorism and other sensitive” details.

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Revealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits

2024-08-01T05:12:00+01:00

The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.

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NHSE quizzing trust’s staff over serious culture and safety concerns

2024-07-31T11:00:00+01:00

NHS England and commissioners are visiting a mental health trust’s services to ask its staff about concerns over safety, communication, and culture, HSJ has learned.

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Consultants sent in to tackle overspending at nine ICSs

2024-07-16T05:18:00+01:00

NHS England has ordered nine integrated care systems to bring in management consultants to find ways to immediately bring down spending because of concerns over their finances, HSJ can reveal.

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ICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding

2024-07-12T11:00:00+01:00

An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.

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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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Leak reveals systems planning to cut permanent staff

2024-06-04T04:34:00+01:00

NHS organisations across two integrated care systems are planning a cut to their total substantive workforce this year, as part of plans to save money.

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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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ICSs where staffing has grown by a quarter revealed

2024-05-16T11:16:00+01:00

The NHS increased its substantive workforce by around 18 per cent over the past four years, which was almost double the rate of increase over the previous period.