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NewsGovernment accused of ‘disconnect’ in policy over new ICB role
The government’s decision to give integrated care boards partial responsibility for delivering a new £1.8bn special needs programme is creating “real tension” with their plans to cut staffing and focus on commissioning, system leaders have warned.
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NewsNew commissioning structure lacks experts, president warns
There is only one senior mental health lead across the seven new regional commissioning hubs taking on specialised services from NHS England, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has told a public inquiry.
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CommentHow the UK’s housing shortage is undermining NHS care
Mental health trusts are spending millions keeping clinically ready patients in hospital beds – not because they need treatment, but because the supported housing market that should receive them has been shrinking for 15 years
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Are PCNs finished?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West
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NewsRevealed: ICBs facing clash between PCNs and neighbourhood health
Dozens of primary care networks in some areas may need to be reorganised to take on neighbourhood contracts, because they do not cover a coherent geographic area.
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NewsNeighbourhood plans ‘in danger’, says top five trust leader
The government’s neighbourhood health agenda is “in danger of not happening” amid a lack of clarity over governance structures and funding, the chair of England’s fourth-largest trust has claimed.
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News‘Central pressure’ forcing ICBs to cut reform investment
Integrated care boards are struggling to protect funds to deliver neighbourhood health and other 10-Year Health Plan proposals this year – with one cluster forced to withdraw a £33m fund days after launching it.
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NewsSix ICBs chosen to lead specialised commissioning
Just one of the seven NHS England regions has yet to decide which organisation will host the patch’s joint commissioning of specialised and some other services.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: NHS reform after Streeting
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The restructures are anything but over
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 Mimi Launder.
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CommentGovernment must back ICBs or its reforms will fail
ICBs are ready to prove themselves as strategic commissioners. Now the government needs to hold up its end of the bargain
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CommentWhy 30 years of commissioning reforms have failed
NHS commissioning reforms repeatedly fail due to structural, financial and political barriers, raising doubts over whether latest changes can succeed
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Abolishing NHSE is the easy part
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West
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NewsNHSE rows back on controversial target
NHS England has rowed back on what was widely understood to be a new target for the proportion of patients it wanted “diverted” away from waiting lists, after accusations it was rationing care.
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NewsPatients stuck in unsafe hospital for two more months
NHS England has accepted it will take until the end of June to move “priority” patients out of a hospital where there are “serious safety concerns”.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The two-speed problem
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 Mimi Launder.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Commissioning’s ‘last role of the dice’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West
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News‘We have to prove’ ICBs have value, says Mackey
Integrated care boards have to prove they can deliver major improvements if questions over their future are to stop, NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ICBs be vaccine hesitant?
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 Mimi Launder.
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NewsICBs given three years to ‘begin’ IHO rollout
Integrated care boards have been given three years to begin implementing outcome-based contracts, including integrated health organisations.