Late delivery of equipment linked to patient’s death
The late supply of defective equipment used by care staff to reduce harm from a pressure ulcer contributed to the death of a vulnerable patient, a coroner has concluded.
Preventing LTC patients going ‘off the radar’
North Central London Health Alliance is testing a new approach to proactively support patients with long-term conditions and address the challenges they face, write Kate Petts and Rachel Lissauer
ICB told to pay £10m to councils after funding dispute
An integrated care board had to pay its five local authorities more than £10m after a disagreement over Better Care Fund contributions.
London Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: Streeting’s magic tree
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Local authority leader appointed ICS chair
A former local authority leader has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
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.
Revealed: The 22 areas testing radical changes to GP operating model
HSJ can reveal the 22 primary care networks taking part in an unprecedented national programme designing a new “GP operating model” set to influence the national GP contract.
Revealed: ICBs which cut staff by a fifth in 12 months
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.
Five GP contracts terminated after company ‘breaches trust’ with ICB
An integrated care board has decided to terminate and retender five GP contracts after the firm which holds them was sold to private equity without the commissioners’ permission.
New ICS funding system ‘inherently unfair’, officials were told
Multiple commissioners and providers told officials they believed a new NHS England specialised services funding model is ‘inherently unfair’ as it will disadvantage some of the most deprived health systems, it has emerged.
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.
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.
London Eye: From shared chair to where?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: ‘A period of not very well managed decline’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Exclusive: NHSE begins to claw back funding from ICSs to pay off historic debts
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.
Trust’s lead governor resigns after recruitment row
A foundation trust’s lead governor has resigned and been judged by the FT to have breached its “values” and code of conduct, HSJ has learned.
London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
London Eye: We had three NYEs last week
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
Recovery Watch: The ICBs on the slide against the main elective target
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.