Mid and South Essex ICS

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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.

Simon Worthington

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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ICS with health inequalities ‘at heart of strategy’ raids budget three years running

2024-09-19T11:50:00+01:00

An integrated care system which has reducing health inequalities “at the heart” of its strategy has raided the budget for this three years in a row.

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Revealed: ICBs which cut staff by a fifth in 12 months

2024-09-16T12:03:00+01:00

Several integrated care boards have cut their staffing by up to a fifth in a single year – after being asked to reduce management costs – but significant variation exists, HSJ  analysis shows.

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‘Conflict of interest’ concerns over consultants hired to fix NHS finances

2024-08-30T04:57:00+01:00

Concerns have been raised that consultants advising systems on savings plans could be “marking their own homework”, with many of the firms having already done similar exercises for the same organisations.

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Unused space costs NHS £90m a year, new figures reveal

2024-08-27T11:29:00+01:00

NHS organisations spent nearly £90m on empty space in buildings leased from two national property companies last year, HSJ can reveal.

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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 appoints senior ICB figure as new CEO

2024-08-06T12:02:00+01:00

East of England Ambulance Service Trust has appointed a new chief executive.

Money, finance and accounts

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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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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Long waiters increase raises fresh questions over key NHSE target

2024-07-11T11:00:00+01:00

The number of 65-week elective waits has increased for consecutive months with the figure rising by more than ten per cent to around 56,000 in May, NHS England’s latest statistics show.

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Trust faces regulatory action at second maternity department

2024-06-20T11:15:00+01:00

One of the country’s largest acute trusts has been told to improve services at a second maternity department, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

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The Integrator: The ‘race to the bottom’ in ICS finances

2024-05-16T10:11:00+01:00

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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Trust ordered to cut 600 posts

2024-04-22T09:41:00+01:00

A major acute trust has been ordered to cut 600 whole-time equivalent posts, its chief executive has said.

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Redundancy scheme to cut corporate staff by 14%

2024-04-16T16:17:00+01:00

Multiple hospitals are launching redundancy schemes or plans to freeze recruitment for corporate and non-clinical staff, in a bid to meet their financial expectations in 2024–25.

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Revealed: The ICSs ‘diverting’ the most GP referrals through controversial model

2024-04-09T04:10:00+01:00

There is huge regional variation in the rate at which health systems are preventing patients joining the elective waiting list through “advice and guidance” to GPs, according to analysis by HSJ.

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NHSE ‘treads tightrope’ with new cash bailout for deficit ICSs

2024-02-15T04:17:00+00:00

NHS England is set to give around £650m to some health systems to offset financial deficits and ease cash pressures, HSJ has learned.

Money, finance and accounts

Nearly a third of ICSs admit finance plans will be missed

2024-01-30T12:25:00+00:00

At least 13 integrated care systems have now admitted they will miss the financial plans they signed up for at the start of the year.

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‘Regular flooding’ and ‘fire risks’ force part-closure of hospital

2023-11-27T05:12:00+00:00

Inpatient services are set to be transferred out of a large community hospital due to regular flooding, fire safety risks and broken lifts.

Anthony McKeever

NHS failing to prioritise those in most need, says departing ICB chief

2023-11-17T04:33:00+00:00

The NHS should better track patients with the greatest clinical need so they can move to the front of the queue for treatment, a former government waiting list tsar has said.