All articles by Caitlin Tilley – Page 3
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NewsGPs urged to join forces to avoid ‘imposition’ of neighbourhood providers
GPs should rapidly start “collaborative discussions” with peers about developing joint “models” to fit in with the government’s proposed development of “neighbourhood health”, the British Medical Association’s GP committee has said.
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NewsBMA ‘demanding extortionate pay’ during strikes
The British Medical Association expects trusts to pay “extortionate” rates for resident doctors asked to run services during the current strike, according to NHS England.
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NewsTrusts appoint joint CEO
An acute trust and a community provider serving the same area have appointed a shared chief executive.
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NewsICB told to re-run £10m contract award
An integrated care board has been told to re-run the procurement process for a £10m primary care services contract after making a string of errors.
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NewsFirst trusts picked to ‘host’ neighbourhood health
An integrated care board has become the first to select “integrators” to coordinate neighbourhood teams in five of its boroughs, each of which will be “hosted” by a trust.
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NewsPatients lost sight due to poor care, trust admits
Multiple glaucoma patients have suffered significant harm, including loss of sight, after treatment guidelines were not followed by more than one member of staff over a number of years at the same trust, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: How to build neighbourhood health
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Caitlin Tilley.
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NewsNational primary care boss shifts to new role
The Department of Health and Social Care’s primary care lead is being seconded to an NHS agency, HSJ has learned.
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NewsThree-fold difference in app use by ICS revealed
The share of patients routinely contacting their GP practice using the NHS App is only 6 per cent, and varies more than three-fold between systems, new figures suggest.
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NewsHospital boards not ready to run population health, says government adviser
Hospital trust boards are not currently in a position to run population health and “very few” acute chief executives “truly understand” primary care, government’s neighbourhood health adviser has told HSJ.
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NewsForty-two areas to pioneer neighbourhood health
The government and NHS England will select 42 places to lead the rollout of neighbourhood health and shape how it will be operationalised.
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NewsPanel backs ICB over £32.5m contract award
An integrated care board has been told to proceed with a controversial decision to award an out-of-hours primary care contract – previously provided by a local GP firm – to a private company.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Joanne Chadwick-Bell, group chief executive, Royal Wolverhampton and Walsall Healthcare trusts
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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NewsICBs exempt from performance regime
Integrated care boards will not be put into performance “segments” in 2025-26, while they go through major reorganisation and job cuts, NHS England has decided.
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NewsICB agrees extra GP funding after ‘contract breach’ row
An integrated care board has agreed extra GP funding, in a U-turn after threatening to declare practices in breach of their contracts.
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NewsTwo ‘neighbourhood’ contracts proposed
Two new types of primary care contract are set to be used to roll out neighbourhood health – and will sometimes involve trusts and other large-scale providers taking over struggling GP practices.
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News‘Tear up’ outpatient model, Mackey tells NHS
The NHS needs to “tear up” the model of providing outpatients, Sir Jim Mackey has said.
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NewsICB chiefs ‘not sulking’ despite feeling ‘systematically undervalued’
Imposing drastic management cuts has revealed to other NHS leaders that integrated care boards “actually have an incredibly important function”, according to the NHS Confederation chief executive.
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NewsProvider sells NHS services after financial collapse
A private provider has collapsed and sold businesses running at least eight urgent care centres to another firm.
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NewsTrust and manager cleared of manslaughter
A mental health trust and its ward manager have been cleared by a jury of corporate manslaughter and manslaughter by gross negligence.