‘Safety concerns’ over provider with £500m new contracts
A patient transport company which is taking over contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds is grappling with concerns about service performance and risk to patients.
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Former doctor to chair trust
An acute trust has appointed an experienced chair and former medic to help it provide “sustainable high-quality health services”.
Trust in row with BMA over ‘regional rate card’
A large hospital trust’s attempt to reduce its medical rates for extra shifts to bring them in line with other trusts in the region has sparked a row with the British Medical Association
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: 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.
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.
Revealed: Trust’s plan to offer ‘ethical’ private ops in new NHS-funded unit
A trust is considering offering private operations in its new NHS-funded elective centre, which would be “positioned in an ethical way”, board papers reveal.
First time trust CEO quits suddenly after two years
The chief executive of an acute trust has stepped down to spend more time with her family and to return to education.
ICB warned of ‘large financial risk’ from HCA wage claim
NHS organisations across Surrey are to review healthcare assistants’ pay in the face of potential strike action at one trust.
2,500 missing waiters push back ICS’s elective target
Two acute trusts in the same integrated care system have discovered nearly 2,500 “missing” elective waiters, meaning it has abandoned a local target for reducing 65-week waiters.
ICS picks permanent CEO
An integrated care system has appointed a substantive chief executive after her predecessor joined NHS England.
Trust seeks ‘dialogue’ to avert court row with ICB
Providers who are taking legal action against commissioners have called for a “dialogue” over the risks an underfunded tender would pose to local children and families.
Two more ICBs sued over procurement by NHS trusts
An NHS trust and two social enterprises are taking legal action over a £300m procurement for children’s community health services which they say raises ‘significant concerns about safety’.
Exclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
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.
Revealed: the ICSs where delayed discharge rates have doubled in a year
More than half of integrated care systems have managed to cut their rates of delayed discharges this year, but performance worsened in 16 ICSs.
NHSE appoints ICS chief as medical director
NHS England has appointed an integrated care system chief who led an extensive review on primary care last summer as a medical director.
Revealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings
HSJ can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.
NHSE officer steps down to focus on board roles
England’s chief dental officer is leaving her national post after eight years in part to focus on several non-executive board roles, NHS England has announced.
Revealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records
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.