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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Revamping ICB ratings
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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NewsMinisters issue ‘unwise, unnecessary and risky’ reconfiguration rules
More details have been revealed on how and when the health secretary will be able to intervene with changes to local NHS services.
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NewsNew panel will oversee NHS competition regime, DHSC decides
The government will set up an independent panel to oversee disputes arising from decisions made under a new provider selection regime, it said today.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The forbidden provisions
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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CommentThe NHS has warmed to Barclay, but his biggest test is to come
Matthew Taylor shares his insights on what the new reforms proposed by the Hewitt review will mean for the NHS and the population health outcomes
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CommentGetting integration to work: is it time to stop throwing policy at the problem?
Integration fails to succeed because working cultures in the NHS and social care haven’t changed to support collaboration, say Helen Buckingham and Sarah Reed.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Cutting staff numbers in ICBs
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsDischarge reform could save NHS £7bn, claims DHSC
A policy change to speed up hospital discharge could save the NHS more than £7bn over a decade, according to a government evaluation — but ministers have not funded it.
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NewsNew rules will discourage trusts from consuming more than their ‘fair share of NHS resources’
NHS England has launched the first substantive consultation on changes to the NHS provider licence since 2013.
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CommentEnsuring ICSs do not create a postcode lottery for care
There have been attempts to outline and clarify how engagement and partnerships between the voluntary sector and ICSs should happen. Sam Mountney brings to light how it can be a real challenge for people affected with neurological conditions to be heard.
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CommentProgress on mental health is still fragile, ICSs must not let it slip
With 1.5 million people waiting for mental health treatment and no additional investment from the covid recovery funding, integrated care systems must now take the lead in delivering parity for people with mental health problems, writes outgoing MIND chief executive Paul Farmer.
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NewsNHS England ‘hasn’t got long’ to develop ‘operating model’ for system working
NHS England and local leaders must urgently develop a coherent ‘operating model’ for the era of integrated care systems or see the reforms fail, leading trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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NewsNHSE to ‘restrict’ spending at five deficit ICSs
Five health systems have said they cannot submit a balanced financial plan for 2022-23, and are set to face ‘additional restrictions’ on spending from NHS England.
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NewsNHS ‘not doing a very good job’ on children’s mental health
The NHS’s approach to tackling children’s mental health is ‘threatening to overwhelm the social care system’, the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services has warned.
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NewsICSs are an ‘NHS steamroller’, says ‘disrespected’ council leader
The establishment of integrated care systems has been compared to an ‘NHS steamroller coming down on us with a heavy hand’ by the leader of a Conservative council.
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Comment‘Every door I try is locked’: how to overcome the barriers to collaboration
Lisa Weaks on the importance of sharing work equitably, recognising different contributions and how the Health and Care Act presents genuine opportunities to create change
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NewsDitch recruiters who don’t deliver diverse candidates, says NHSE director
An NHS England leadership chief has criticised the lack of diversity among the top ranks of the country’s new integrated care systems, adding the low level of ethnic minority representation ‘really isn’t good enough’.
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HSJ LocalNew ICS chief: ‘I’m being managed in a straitjacket’
A new system leader has said she has felt like she is ‘in a straitjacket’ since being in the post, and asked for greater acknowledgement that ‘I might actually know what I’m doing’.
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NewsJavid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts
Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.
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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.