Trust axed decade-long deal with consultants’ firm after NHSE ‘intervention’
A trust ended a long-standing multi-million deal with an insourcing firm owned by some of its medical consultants after a “supportive intervention” by NHS England, HSJ has learned.
Trust’s CQC rating raised after CEO plea
A trust that was the centre of one of the NHS’s biggest maternity care scandals has successfully challenged the Care Quality Commission’s rating of its service, HSJ has discovered.
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.
Group CEO brought out of retirement to chair struggling provider
A former group chief executive who retired from the service after 40 years earlier this summer is returning to chair two trusts in the Midlands.
ICB claws back £25m from struggling neighbours
An integrated care board has secured £25m from neighbouring systems to cover the cost of providing emergency care for their residents.
Integrated care trust to be axed within weeks
A first-of-its-kind integrated care trust – set up as part of NHS England’s “new care model” reforms – is set to be legally dissolved within weeks, with its current chief executive moving to an interim role at a nearby provider.
Troubled trust appoints interim CEO from neighbour
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has appointed an interim chief executive from a neighbouring specialist provider, just days after the current CEO announced her departure.
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.
CEO who led trust through scandals announces departure
The chief executive of a trust mired in maternity and emergency care scandals has announced she is leaving after four years at the helm.
ICS admits ‘doubts’ it can fix decade-old deficit by 2026
A health system says its decade-old financial deficit is “hampering” its ability to tackle inequalities, after NHS England ordered it to sign legal “undertakings” to improve.
Revealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits
The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.
ICB chair and long-serving NHS chief to retire
An integrated care board chair and previously long-serving NHS chief executive is retiring after five decades in the health service.
Consultants sent in to tackle overspending at nine ICSs
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.
ICBs locked in dispute over emergency care funding
An integrated care board has accused a neighbouring ICB of demanding too much money for services provided to patients accessing care outside its boundaries.
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.
Corridor care ‘must not be the norm’, NHSE warns trusts
NHS England has warned trusts corridor care “must not be considered the norm”, adding that the failings exposed by a recent undercover documentary were “not acceptable”.
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.
Three directors submit grievances about ICB’s leadership
Three directors have submitted grievances about the leadership of an integrated care board over the past three months, HSJ has been told.
Rise in ICSs missing financial plans despite NHSE claim more would deliver
The number of health systems that failed to meet their main financial commitment increased substantially last year, despite NHS England’s chief finance officer previously saying many more areas would “definitely” deliver on their plans.
Maternity-scandal trust to share chair with neighbour
A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chair with its neighbouring community provider.