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ICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months

2024-10-25T06:37:00+01:00

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.

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HSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’

2024-10-25T04:01:00+01:00

This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.

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Region ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m

2024-10-24T05:00:00+01:00

A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.

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ICB tells trusts to shift ‘core services’ towards new neighbourhood teams

2024-10-23T11:00:00+01:00

An influential integrated care board has told its providers to work in 25 new neighbourhood teams – which will have about 2,500 staff across its patch – echoing proposals from the new government.

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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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ICB ‘a hindrance’ to improving services after Grenfell

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

An integrated care board has faced significant criticism that it ‘to this day’ refuses to listen to the Grenfell Tower survivors and has been a ‘hindrance’ to improving services

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London Eye: The next big NHS care scandal?

2024-08-21T12:14:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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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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Hospitals could see 10% hike in referrals under GP action

2024-08-01T05:14:00+01:00

Some areas could receive at least 10 per cent more referrals — “crippling” their attempts at elective recovery — if all GP practices stopped diverting some patients with “specialist advice and guidance”, HSJ analysis shows.

Streeting ‘stunned’ as review accuses CQC of ‘significant failings’

2024-07-25T23:01:00+01:00

A highly critical interim independent review of the Care Quality Commission has found “significant internal failings which [are] hampering its ability to identify poor performance at hospitals, care homes and GP practices”.

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London Eye: Getting past the ‘bitter animosity’

2024-07-24T10:09:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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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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London Eye: From shared chair to where?

2024-07-10T08:28:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Trust divided up between neighbours

2024-07-05T11:50:00+01:00

A community trust has been effectively dissolved and its teams split between a hospital provider and a mental health organisation.

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London Eye: ‘A period of not very well managed decline’

2024-07-03T12:46:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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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.

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Three ICSs spent £21m on vacant property last year

2024-06-17T10:00:00+01:00

Three integrated systems spent £21m on empty space in buildings leased from NHS Property Services last year.

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London Eye: The NHS in the election campaign

2024-05-29T10:00:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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London Eye: We had three NYEs last week

2024-05-15T13:43:00+01:00

Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.

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Recovery Watch: The ICBs on the slide against the main elective target

2024-05-08T13:51:00+01:00

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.