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NewsNew regional director named by NHSE
NHS England has named a new regional director for the North East and Yorkshire, nine months after her substantive predecessor left.
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NewsICBs missing checks on vulnerable children
Integrated care boards are warning they are failing to carry out health checks for vulnerable children in care because of a lack of paediatricians and rising demand, HSJ has found.
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NewsRegion targets prescription cuts under ‘enormous financial pressure’
All but one of a region’s integrated care boards have stopped prescribing gluten-free products to save money, with a charity saying the move will exacerbate inequalities and risk “debilitating symptoms”.
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NewsLong-serving CEO retires from trust with big savings target
Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust’s chief executive will retire in the spring, the provider has confirmed.
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NewsThirteen ICSs now in deficit turnaround
Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to fix its finances, meaning close to a third of the 42 systems are now in mandatory escalation over their finances.
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NewsAppointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success
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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HSJ LocalOne of NHS’s top chairs to stand down
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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NewsThree 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.
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NewsCutting hospital staff won’t help productivity, says ICB chief
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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NewsDispute between trust directors triggers NHSE enforcement action
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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NewsRevealed: 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.
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NewsHospitals could see 10% hike in referrals under GP action
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.
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NewsNHS needs ‘financial reset’, says leading CEO
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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NewsThreefold 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.
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NewsExclusive: 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.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Bringing back capital punishment
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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NewsICS drops alternative payment system in favour of ‘payment by results’
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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NewsTrust is waging ‘witch hunt’ against own director, alleges MP
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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NewsTwo more directors accuse trust leaders of ‘Islamophobia’
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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NewsTrust’s treatment of Muslims heavily criticised by board director
A board director has publicly criticised his trust for its treatment of Muslim staff and patients.