Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS

CT scanner

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.

Samantha Allen

Three local NHS CEOs join NHS England as directors

2024-09-17T14:40:00+01:00

Two integrated care board chief executives and a trust CEO have been appointed as part-time national directors at NHS England.

Emergency workforce

Nineteen hospitals targeted for ‘urgent support’ before winter

2024-09-02T04:00:00+01:00

NHS England has revealed the hospitals it is targeting for “urgent support” to avoid deterioration in emergency care performance ahead of winter.

Zoe Tidman 2023

The Integrator: Capping acute funding uplifts for the wider good

2024-08-22T12:00:00+01:00

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning

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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.

Matthew Winn (3)

Trusts announce unprecedented merger plans

2024-07-24T14:17:00+01:00

Two East of England trusts have today approved the first step of merger plans in what is understood would be the first tie-up between two standalone community service providers.

Mobile phone

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. 

Baroness Sally Morgan

Former Blair aide to chair teaching trust

2024-07-11T05:30:00+01:00

Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Labour peer and former top Number 10 adviser Baroness Sally Morgan as its next chair.

money coins finance

Exclusive: NHSE begins to claw back funding from ICSs to pay off historic debts

2024-06-20T11:14:00+01:00

Three-quarters of integrated care systems face funding cuts of up to £20m as a result of NHS England’s insistence they start paying back overspends from previous years, HSJ  analysis has discovered.

John Webster CP

Deputy CEO leaves trust amid criticism from tribunal judge

2024-06-18T05:33:00+01:00

A trust deputy CEO has left his role just weeks after a judge criticised his conduct and the credibility of his evidence in an employment tribunal ruling.

Ellen Wilkinson

Trust scraps suicides review

2024-05-13T17:53:00+01:00

A trust has announced it is scrapping a major suicides review, prompting concerns about the “devastating” impact the surprise move could have on some grieving families.

Ellen Wilkinson

Medic to review dozens of suicides linked to trust

2024-04-03T14:45:00+01:00

A trust has appointed a chair to lead an independent review into dozens of suicides that were sparked by allegations of record tampering.

Anna Hills 300 dpi

CEO leaves trust criticised over suicide review

2024-02-02T14:24:00+00:00

The chief executive of a trust recently pressured into commissioning an external review of dozens of suicides is leaving after under two years in post.

Nurse patient wheelchair (1)

Reversal of ‘huge achievement’ as agency spending breaches £3bn

2023-12-14T06:57:00+00:00

NHS trust spending on agency staff surged to £3.5bn last year, according to recently published figures.

Des McVey

CQC sorry for failing to act on ‘note tampering’ concerns

2023-12-11T06:16:00+00:00

The Care Quality Commission has apologised after admitting it failed to act on whistleblowing concerns “in a timely manner”.

Cambridge

Trust reveals major data breaches involving over 22,000 patients’ data

2023-12-07T12:45:00+00:00

A major teaching trust mistakenly released private information belonging to more than 22,000 patients in two major data breaches.

Child

Two-year waits for community mental health services revealed for the first time

2023-11-20T05:24:00+00:00

Official data published for the first time has revealed more than 24,000 children and young people are waiting almost two years to be seen by community mental health services.

David Gilbert

ImPatient: Escorted to the car park

2023-11-13T14:18:00+00:00

Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...

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Whistleblower raises alarm over ‘inadequate’ investigation into 60 suicides

2023-10-24T03:51:00+01:00

A trust pressured into commissioning an external review of dozens of suicides faces fresh criticism and questions about the probe’s credibility after it emerged the investigation will not investigate each case but instead look to ‘identify themes’.

Money, finance and accounts

Exclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap

2023-10-04T03:50:00+01:00

Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.