Commissioning
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HSJ InteractiveThe how, the what and the why of the long-term plan for CCGs
Julie Wood explores the need to do more at local level and how commissioners are working with provider partners to change their relationships and find bespoke solutions to local problems
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The mystery of the Model ICB 2.0
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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NewsEngland’s biggest ICB appoints interim chief executive
England’s largest integrated care board has appointed an interim chief executive from a neighbouring system ahead of its formal launch in April.
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NewsExclusive: NHS failing to honour £1bn funding deal
The NHS is rowing back on plans agreed with the Treasury, but never published, to boost community services spending, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs are set up to fail on hospices
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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NewsChief nurse made CEO after unstable year for ICB
A nursing leader has been appointed as the permanent chief executive of an integrated care board whose management has been uncertain for more than a year.
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CommentIn search of clarity about integrated health organisations
Integrated health organisations represent a fundamentally different way of commissioning care, but NHS oversight metrics and league tables are pulling in the opposite direction of the collaboration they require to succeed, analysis suggests
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Does neighbourhood health already need a rebrand?
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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NewsCEO of biggest ICB quits for national role
The chief executive of England’s largest integrated care board has stepped down for a national NHS CEO role, just two months after being appointed, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHospital chief to become only ICB CEO with minority ethnic background
A hospital chief executive is leaving to lead an integrated care board, where she will become the only ICB CEO from a minority ethnic background.
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NewsStreeting: ‘Uncomfortable’ redundancy delays are ‘on me’
The health secretary has said the uncertainty hanging over ICB staff has made him “uncomfortable” and that he has not resolved redundancies quickly enough.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The ‘completely detached’ commissioning framework
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 told: Be ‘bold’ and ‘go beyond traditional providers’
Integrated care boards must be “bold” in their new role as “strategic commissioners”, including decommissioning services and “look[ing] beyond traditional providers”, new NHS England guidance says.
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NewsNHSE picks seven trusts for £5bn investment
NHS England has announced the seven trusts it intends to award contracts totalling £5bn to run the NHS Genomic Medicine Service over the next decade.
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NewsExclusive: Director quits DHSC for senior regional role
The second permanent secretary of the Department of Health and Social Care, Tom Riordan, is leaving after only a year in the post for a newly created cross-government role.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The end of deficit support
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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NewsIntegrated health organisations actually a form of contract, says NHSE
The “integrated health organisations” proposed in the government’s 10-Year Health Plan are not, in fact, organisations but a “contract-based delivery method”, according to the 2026-27 planning guidance issued by NHS England today.
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CommentYoung people’s mental health will not be improved by the NHS alone
The key to sustainable mental health services for the young lies in joined-up working that values community knowledge alongside clinical expertise, writes Sarah Holloway, Maudsley Charity CEO
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NewsICB broke commissioning rules on £92m contract
An integrated care board broke commissioning regulations when trying to secure a contract for a system-wide mental health service, according to the independent oversight panel.
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CommentWe don’t need a ‘national blueprint’ for neighbourhood care
While the NHS Neighbourhood Programme marks a welcome step towards addressing health inequalities, it risks repeating past mistakes unless it abandons centrally prescribed solutions and truly empowers local communities