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NewsStaff exodus to private rivals forces trust to restrict service
A mental health and community trust has been forced to restrict its children’s ADHD service after a string of staff left for private providers.
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NewsRevealed: The ICBs closest to hitting new access target
More than one in five clinically urgent GP appointments were not seen on the same day – but some areas are coming close to delivering the NHS England access requirement in 90 per cent of cases – new data reveals.
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NewsWelsh government denies English hospital’s £20m demand
A Welsh health board is refusing to pay £21m as demanded by an English hospital trust in a cross-border funding dispute.
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NewsTrust takes £2m hit on flawed land sale
A trust was forced to pay £2m to exit a land sale – after realising that it might need the space and would have lost money on the deal.
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NewsThree times more GPs leaving some ICBs
Some systems saw fully qualified GPs leave their roles at three times the rate of other patches last year, according to new figures.
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NewsICBs pay trust £23m after contract dispute
Six integrated care boards in the West Midlands have reached a settlement with an ambulance trust to compensate for delays handing over patients to emergency departments.
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NewsTrust confirms death of its ‘remarkable’ chair
Tributes have been paid to a “remarkable” hospital trust chair following the announcement of his death.
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NewsHospital warned over storing bodies in car park
A hospital has been reprimanded for storing bodies in a bank of fridges in its car park.
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NewsTrust predicts ‘standstill’ in very long waits
A trust has called in a private provider to help address very long diagnostic waits, but admits they will remain at a “standstill” without “further investment”.
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NewsNHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals
NHS England has told integrated care boards they need to slow down elective referrals dramatically – nearly eliminating year-on-year growth – with high-profile waiting list targets under threat.
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NewsRevealed: The systems still reliant on agency staff
Six systems are still using more than 30 per cent of their temporary staffing spend to employ agency workers, HSJ research has revealed.
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NewsNHSE steps up intervention in three systems
NHS England is escalating its intervention in emergency care in three integrated care systems – meaning half of all areas are now getting extra central attention.
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NewsTrust hires ICB leader as new CEO
A new chief executive has been appointed to a struggling mental health trust, a year after the Care Quality Commission raised major concerns about its leadership.
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NewsThree ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits
Just three integrated care systems were responsible for nearly one in four 13-week waits for key diagnostic tests in recent months, HSJ analysis of official data has found.
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HSJ LocalICB claws back £25m from struggling neighbours
An integrated care board has secured £25m from neighbouring systems to cover the cost of providing emergency care for their residents.
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NewsRevealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS
A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.
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NewsTrust refuses to share full data with ICBs, citing ‘counter terrorism’ concerns
An ambulance trust with some of England’s worst handover delays has refused to share some patient data with local partners on the grounds the information relates to “counter terrorism and other sensitive” details.
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NewsRevealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits
The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.
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NewsThreefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
Patients trying to reach their GP are almost three times as likely to fail to get through in the worst-performing integrated care systems than the best, according to analysis of new annual figures.
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HSJ LocalTrust’s ‘leadership behaviour’ attacked by six ICBs
Six integrated care board chiefs in the Midlands have written to an ambulance trust over a “pattern of behaviour” they claim its leadership team has displayed since its Care Quality Commission rating was downgraded.