Cornwall and Devon ICB – Page 5
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NewsWaiting list hits new record high as attention shifts to 65-week breaches
The NHS waiting list hit a record 7.3 million incomplete pathways in March, according to new official data, as trust bosses gear up to clear the circa 95,000 patients who have waited over 65 weeks.
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HSJ LocalICS already admitting it will miss March 2024 elective waiting time target
One of the country’s most challenged integrated care systems has told NHS England it expects to significantly miss the March 2024 target to end elective waits of 65 weeks or longer.
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NewsRevealed: the tenfold regional difference in access to GP records
Fewer than one in 10 GP practices offers patients access to their records in several areas of England, with significant variation across England, six months ahead of a new deadline.
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NewsRevealed: The integrated care partnerships with no public meetings or minutes
Six integrated care systems have not held any public meetings of their ‘partnership’ boards – and nine have not published any ICP meetings or papers – nearly a year after they were set up.
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HSJ LocalICBs employ consultancy for ‘rapid assessment’ of cost-saving opportunities
Two integrated care boards are exploring closer joint working to help them make nationally required running cost reductions.
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News£2bn ICS debt from ‘CCG screw-ups’ should be written off, says Confed
NHS England has been urged to write off £2.2bn in historic debts that integrated care systems could be asked to repay.
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HSJ LocalTwo ex-acute CEOs brought in to fix ICS’s elective problem
Two former acute trust CEOs have been brought in to help with the elective recovery in the integrated care system with the highest number of patients waiting a long time for treatment.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE halts ‘pioneer’ health centres due to lack of capital
A national plan to build new ‘super’ primary care hubs in six areas has been halted with immediate effect by NHS England because of a lack of capital funding.
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NewsRevealed: best and worst ICSs for inpatient elective activity
Only seven integrated care systems recorded more inpatient elective activity in the three months to December than in the same period before the pandemic, according to HSJ analysis.
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NewsRevealed: the 14 ICSs admitting they will end the year in deficit
At least 14 integrated care systems have now officially admitted they will end the year with a budget deficit, after just five areas said this at the start of the year.
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HSJ LocalICS plans ‘integrated NHS groups’ spanning ICB and trusts
An integrated care system that has struggled with ‘strained and challenging relationships’ is exploring ‘joint constitutional committees’ spanning its integrated care board and two provider trusts.
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News‘Unauthorised payoffs’ made to senior staff at six NHS organisations
NHS England has been criticised by national auditors after a spate of unauthorised payoffs to departing commissioning staff, and warned that the move to integrated care boards may bring more.
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HSJ LocalSystem’s trusts failing to tackle ‘completely unjust’ health inequalities
All three acute trusts in an integrated care system are failing to meet national requirements to tackle health inequalities after being overwhelmed by emergency and elective care pressures.
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HSJ LocalPlanned deficit more than doubles at financially challenged ICS
One of England’s most financially challenged integrated care systems will increase its expected deficit this year by £30m.
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HSJ LocalTrusts move away from joint EPR plan
A joint electronic patient record system for acute providers across two neighbouring integrated care systems is now unlikely, according to one of the trusts involved.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read integration stories of 2022
As we get ready to say goodbye to 2022, HSJ takes a look back at the 10 most read integration stories of the year.
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NewsNHS leaders fear ambulance strike ‘calm’ will not last
The first NHS ambulance strike for 32 years appears not to have had any major impact so far.
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NewsNHS leaders ‘filled with dread’ ahead of ambulance strike
National, system and trust leaders have told HSJ they fear for the safety of patients and the wellbeing of staff as the NHS experiences its first ambulance strike for 32 years.
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NewsICS has ‘strained and challenging’ relationships, review finds
Relationships between commissioners, providers and the local authority in a troubled integrated care system are ‘strained and challenging’, according to an external review it commissioned.
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NewsNeighbouring trusts placed in ‘special measures’
NHS England has moved two Devon trusts into its successor for the special measures regime, meaning all of the county’s acute trusts are now in the bottom tier of the oversight framework.