Emergency prescribing and ‘shared care’ withdrawn by GPs
Emergency prescribing and monitoring of patients with severe mental health conditions are among services being cancelled by GP practices as part of “collective action”.
ICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
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.
Two ICBs to share the same chair
Two very different integrated care boards are to share the same chair.
Trust in financial dispute with two ICBs
An ambulance trust has warned it may miss financial targets because it has failed to finalise some commissioning contracts halfway through the year.
Trust in row with BMA over ‘regional rate card’
A large hospital trust’s attempt to reduce its medical rates for extra shifts to bring them in line with other trusts in the region has sparked a row with the British Medical Association
Three ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits
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.
The Integrator: The influence of ‘place’ is being chipped away
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
NHS set to breach planned annual deficit in five months
Local NHS bodies have burned through almost all of their annual deficit target in just the first four months of the year, analysis of the latest finance reports by HSJ shows.
NHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis
Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.
Streeting urged to stop ICB plans to ‘erode’ local authority influence
A county council is to ask the health and social care secretary to intervene over the proposed overhaul of its local integrated care board’s operating model.
Turbulent ICB appoints first permanent CEO in two years
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board has appointed its first substantive CEO in two years.
Revealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS
A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.
‘We’re not doing our job properly’, ICB tells councillors
An integrated care board has apologised to a large county council for a lack of engagement over plans to axe its “place” directors and centralise their teams, but argued it was trying to improve its central functions.
Eleven ICSs warned of ‘significant concern’ about overspending
Around three quarters of England’s 42 integrated care systems have been unable to set balanced budgets for 2024-25, NHS England has revealed.
ICB faces row with council over axing ‘place’ directors
An integrated care board faces a row with a large county council over plans to axe its “place” directors and centralise their teams, HSJ has learned.
‘Significant disruption’ as struggling ICB extends restructure
A struggling integrated care board is reporting more “freedom to speak up” reports and “significant disruption” to staff, as it goes through a major restructure, it has warned.
Threefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
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.
Major ICB plans to cut one in six posts
An integrated care board has proposed cutting more than 80 of its full-time equivalent posts, in a bid to reduce its operating costs by 40 per cent.
CEO interview: Meghana Pandit, chief executive, Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust
This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
NHSE ‘treads tightrope’ with new cash bailout for deficit ICSs
NHS England is set to give around £650m to some health systems to offset financial deficits and ease cash pressures, HSJ has learned.