West Yorkshire ICS

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Appointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success

2024-10-18T11:51:00+01:00

The large size of integrated care systems in the North East and Yorkshire region — and the ex-trust CEO leaders they attracted — has underpinned their relatively strong performance, a new report suggests.

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One of NHS’s top chairs to stand down

2024-10-11T05:06:00+01:00

One of the NHS’s most influential chairs is standing down after over a decade in post at a large teaching hospital trust.

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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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Cutting hospital staff won’t help productivity, says ICB chief

2024-09-17T06:37:00+01:00

The leader of an integrated care board has dismissed a “narrative” that the NHS can become more productive by cutting hospital staff numbers.

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Dispute between trust directors triggers NHSE enforcement action

2024-08-19T05:07:00+01:00

NHS England has taken formal enforcement action against a trust after expressing “significant concerns” over a “deterioration” in how its board operates.

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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.

Rob Webster

NHS needs ‘financial reset’, says leading CEO

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

A leading system CEO has called for a “financial reset” for the NHS and a move away from using 2019-20 as the baseline against which elective recovery is measured.

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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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Following the Money: Bringing back capital punishment

2024-06-18T13:00:00+01:00

HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.

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ICS drops alternative payment system in favour of ‘payment by results’

2024-05-23T11:58:00+01:00

A health system that trialled an innovative funding mechanism that deviated significantly from “payment by results” has dropped the scheme after just one year.

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Trust is waging ‘witch hunt’ against own director, alleges MP

2024-04-08T11:00:00+01:00

An MP has accused the leadership of her local trust of orchestrating a “witch hunt” against one of its own directors and manipulating a recruitment process to ensure the CEO’s “preferred” candidate was shortlisted for an executive position.

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Two more directors accuse trust leaders of ‘Islamophobia’

2024-03-19T12:30:00+00:00

Two more non-executive directors have criticised the leaders of Bradford Teaching Hospitals, accusing them of using “Islamophobic tropes” and retaliating against “dissenting opinion”.

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Trust’s treatment of Muslims heavily criticised by board director

2024-03-12T04:45:00+00:00

A board director has publicly criticised his trust for its treatment of Muslim staff and patients.

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Revealed: The ICBs most reliant on private hospitals

2024-02-23T05:26:00+00:00

Up to 20 per cent of NHS elective patients are now being treated by private hospitals in some areas, analysis by HSJ  suggests.

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ICS says government must act on ‘crisis’ in children’s services

2024-01-22T07:39:00+00:00

An integrated care system has called on government to provide adequate funding to deal with a “crisis” in children’s services.

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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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Leeds launches innovative remote monitoring trial for elderly care

2023-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

A remote monitoring trial in Leeds will help gain insights on how best to support older people living at home with long-term conditions

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Trust admits errors over dispute with chair

2023-11-21T10:36:00+00:00

A hospital trust whose chair quit after publicly raising serious concerns about the chief executive has admitted shortcomings in how it handled the situation.