All Devon ICS articles – Page 3
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read integration stories of 2023
As 2023 turns into 2024, we look at the integration stories which climbed their way up the most-read list this year
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NewsCore bed numbers fall in seven systems, despite NHSE plan
The number of ‘core’ acute beds has fallen in seven health systems since the summer, according to official sitrep data.
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NewsMoney ‘leaching’ from NHS due to patient choice policy, says ICS boss
The CEO of an integrated care system has said the choice agenda, in which the NHS pays for patients to be treated at a private provider, is costing his system £8m a year.
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HSJ LocalNew CEO appointed at struggling ICB
One of England’s most challenged integrated care systems has appointed a new chief executive.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Baby steps again on specialised services
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 BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Trust’s concern over ‘short-term’ funding agreements
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsExclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: How a Nightingale hospital is, finally, the answer
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsU-turn on interim role for ex-CEO of hospitals at centre of maternity scandal
An integrated care board announced the appointment of an interim chief executive – who led a health board in Wales at the centre of a maternity scandal – only for her to withdraw about two weeks later, it has emerged.
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NewsExperienced CEO joins ‘trust under great pressure’
A struggling South West trust has appointed a new chief executive officer on an interim basis amid on-going financial woes.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Leadership change comes to the peninsula
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsTrusts warned to check helipad safety after death
Trusts have been told to check the safety of their helipads after an accident in a hospital car park left a pensioner dead.
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NewsRevealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings
HSJ can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.
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NewsICSs most ‘off target’ on recovery named by NHS England
Seven integrated care systems and one ambulance trust have been placed in ‘intensive support’ because of their performance against urgent and emergency care metrics.
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NewsRevealed: the ICSs that refused to set breakeven plans
More than half the integrated care systems in the north of England have refused to agree a balanced financial plan, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust loses £85m contract for local services after winning work 200 miles away
A foundation trust has lost an £85m contract to provide healthcare services in its local prisons to a private company, after taking over the same services from the same company 230 miles away.
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NewsThird of ICSs fail to set balanced budgets
A total of 14 integrated care systems are forecasting a combined deficit of £650m in 2023-24, NHS England’s chief finance officer said on Thursday.
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HSJ LocalCEO of struggling ICS to retire
The chief executive of one of England’s most challenged integrated care systems has announced her retirement.
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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.