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NewsMajor provider joins NHSE’s most challenged group
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has joined four other trusts in NHS England’s most challenged category for all three of elective, diagnostic and cancer performance.
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NewsAcute and mental health trusts appoint first shared chair
An acute trust and a mental health trust in the Midlands have announced they are to share a chair, which they say will create more opportunities for joined-up care.
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NewsSmallest ICB appoints chair despite consolidation talks
The integrated care board with the smallest population has appointed a new chair, despite the expected consolidation of ICBs.
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NewsTrust hits back at ‘personal targeting’ of its CEO
A trust has defended its chief executive amid criticism by union leaders and intervention by the health and social care secretary.
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NewsICB appoints acting chair after predecessor’s sudden exit
An integrated care board has appointed an acting chair after the previous boss stood down suddenly earlier this year.
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NewsICS holds out against NHSE financial targets
A single system has refused to sign up to financial targets set by NHSE, HSJ has learned.
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NewsICB functions radically reduced in national ‘blueprint’
More than a dozen functions have been earmarked for “transfer” out of integrated care boards, including workforce planning, primary care, and digital leadership.
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NewsChildren waiting more than two years for tooth extractions
Children needing a general anaesthetic for tooth extraction are waiting nearly three years in a hidden crisis that is not recorded on national waiting lists.
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NewsPrivate providers costing ICB ‘three times more’ than NHS equivalent
NHS-funded access to private autism and ADHD services is “unsustainable” and “up to three times more expensive than our local provision”, according to an integrated care board’s review.
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NewsCut ‘board headcount’, ICBs told
A “blueprint” for integrated care board cost-cuts says “headcount should be reduced at board level”.
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NewsNHSE could impose new cancer system on struggling trusts
Trusts failing to meet cancer standards may be encouraged to use a new tool on the federated data platform, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: Trust investigated for manslaughter over three deaths
A trust is being investigated for manslaughter in relation to the death of three patients, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSuppliers to help design Streeting’s ‘single patient record’
NHS England is asking suppliers for advice on designing the “single patient record” (SPR), which is seeking to create a “single version of the truth” across the NHS and social care.
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NewsResident doctors ballot for action
No 2025-26 pay proposals announced Resident doctors in England are set to ballot for renewed industrial action over pay, the British Medical Association has announced.
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HSJ LocalFirst ICBs to share CEO and chair
The first integrated care boards have announced they will share the same CEO and chair, an arrangement likely to spread to many others as part of a major restructure.
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NewsEx-council boss becomes ICB chair
An integrated care board has appointed a former council boss as its new chair.
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NewsNHSE reorganisation plans delayed
The first draft of a “high-level plan” for merging NHS England into the Department of Health and Social Care has been delayed, officials have acknowledged.
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NewsEx-health secretary attacks ‘drastic’ ICB shake-up
Government and NHS England should “step back” from their NHS “reorganisation” which “came out of nowhere” and risks “taking people’s focus internally”, according to former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
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News‘Profound disappointment’ as ICBs are allowed to cut safety funding
A leading midwife and chair of government maternity inquiries has cited “significant concern about safety and wellbeing” following a substantial cut to nationally ring-fenced funding.
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HSJ LocalHospital criticised for ‘poor’ and ‘defensive’ investigations
A hospital trust has been criticised for its “poor” and “defensive” investigations into three deaths, which a coroner has linked to care by a single surgeon.