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NewsNHS failing to prioritise those in most need, says departing ICB chief
The NHS should better track patients with the greatest clinical need so they can move to the front of the queue for treatment, a former government waiting list tsar has said.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2023: Data-Driven Transformation Award
Partnered by Winner Mid and South Essex ICS, Essex Partnership University Trust and Arden and Gem CSU Electronic Frailty Care Co-Ordination System (Efraccs) And Frailty End-Of-Life Dementia Assessment (FrEDA)
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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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NewsTrust boss accuses private provider of ‘overpromising and underdelivering’
The boss of a large acute trust has accused a private provider of ‘overpromising and underdelivering’ after significant problems emerged with a local arrangement which have piled further pressure on its waiting list.
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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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News‘We don’t have the bottle’ to hold line on bed numbers, says trust director
A director at a major acute trust said it needs to stop “caving in” to demand pressures by opening extra escalation beds.
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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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NewsBarclay: 'Staff who refuse to give evidence to deaths probe will be fined'
The health secretary has announced a national investigation into the safety of mental health inpatient services, while granting statutory powers to an inquiry into 2,000 deaths at one trust.
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News‘First’ single EPR across ICS planned
An integrated care system is planning on launching what it believes is the ‘first’ single electronic patient record across acute, mental health and community providers.
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News‘Archaic’ and risky patient records still used by most GP practices
Most GP practices in England are still using ‘archaic’ Lloyd George paper records despite a commitment to digitise them, HSJ has found.
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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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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 Local‘Mac the Knife’ to retire after nearly 50 years in health service
An integrated care board chief executive who has spent nearly five decades working in the health service has announced his retirement.
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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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HSJ LocalExclusive: inquiry exaggerated trust death toll, claims CEO
A trust chief executive has suggested an inquiry team looking at 2,000 deaths is lacking in ‘expertise’ and has created a ‘disproportionate impression’ of the problems at his trust.
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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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NewsTrust warned by CQC over staff sleeping on duty
A mental health trust has received a warning from the Care Quality Commission over staff sleeping on duty and other serious concerns.
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NewsDeaths inquiry thrown into doubt as only 11 staff agree to give evidence
The chair of an inquiry into hundreds of deaths at a mental health trust has revealed she may not be able to deliver it in its current form following a ‘hugely disappointing’ lack of staff coming forward to give evidence.
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HSJ LocalTrust declares its cancer waiting list ‘unmanageable’
One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts has declared its cancer waiting list is now at an ‘unmanageable size’.
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NewsRevealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.