Somerset ICS

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ICB chair steps down to join double-merger trust

2024-10-23T15:36:00+01:00

An integrated care board chair is leaving her role to join an integrated trust in the West Country, it has been announced.

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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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Revealed: The 22 areas testing radical changes to GP operating model

2024-09-25T04:51:00+01:00

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.

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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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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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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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The NHS must act to prevent mentally unwell people dying from physical illnesses

2024-05-17T11:00:00+01:00

Emily Gibbons discusses how trusts lead the charge in integrating mental and physical health services for better outcomes and equity, bridging gaps, and saving lives

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Revealed: The ICSs furthest behind on dental access

2024-03-18T04:49:00+00:00

Several integrated care systems are struggling to deliver more than half the NHS dental appointments they had hoped for in 2023-24, and all areas are lagging, figures obtained by HSJ suggest.

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Revealed: The systems with a third of dental budget unspent

2024-02-22T05:03:00+00:00

Nearly a third of local dental budgets are going unspent in some areas of the country, according to data obtained by HSJ.

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Exclusive: Rise in ‘free births’ raised with government and regulators

2024-02-05T12:25:00+00:00

National leaders have been alerted to the risks from growing numbers of women choosing to give birth without midwifery or medical input – known as “free birthing” – HSJ can reveal.

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London gets well over ‘fair share’ of specialised services while rural areas miss out

2024-01-03T05:20:00+00:00

People in some more rural areas are missing out on specialist treatments they should be getting, while Londoners are receiving a lot more than their “fair share”, new NHS England figures suggest.

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Core bed numbers fall in seven systems, despite NHSE plan

2023-12-18T12:58:00+00:00

The number of ‘core’ acute beds has fallen in seven health systems since the summer, according to official sitrep data.

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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.

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Revealed: the ICSs where delayed discharge rates have doubled in a year

2023-09-25T03:57:00+01:00

More than half of integrated care systems have managed to cut their rates of delayed discharges this year, but performance worsened in 16 ICSs.

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Revealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings

2023-07-18T11:51:00+01:00

HSJ  can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.

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Revealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records

2023-05-10T04:56:00+01:00

Fewer than one in 10 GP practices offers patients access to their records in several areas of England, with significant variation across England, six months ahead of a new deadline.

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More than half of ICSs lack ‘crucial’ health management systems

2023-05-02T11:15:00+01:00

More than half of integrated care systems do not have a fully developed population health management system, despite this being a ‘core aim’, HSJ  can reveal.

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Six systems pulled up by NHSE over poor cancer diagnosis performance

2023-04-28T10:42:00+01:00

NHS England has demanded recovery plans from six systems with a poor record on delivering urgent cancer checks.

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CEO of double-merger trust targets ‘powerful’ shift to out-of-hospital care

2023-04-24T11:40:00+01:00

England’s largest integrated trust is aiming to transform its acute services on a scale comparable to the move away from mental health institutions to community-based care, its CEO has told HSJ.

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Harm caused by long cancer waits to be investigated by ICB

2023-02-03T05:28:00+00:00

Commissioners have begun a ‘serious incident review’ across their integrated care system after early indications showed patients may have suffered harm due to long waits for cancer treatment.