All Integrated care boards articles – Page 10
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The 10-Year Plan’s unanswered questions
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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NewsICBs exempt from performance regime
Integrated care boards will not be put into performance “segments” in 2025-26, while they go through major reorganisation and job cuts, NHS England has decided.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: Cuts now, claims later
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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CommentThe patient voice is being silenced
Patients are being shut out of the NHS conversation, as lived experience and recovery support are increasingly ignored
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The £1bn question hanging over ICBs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsMerging ICBs to ‘keep two partnership boards’
Two merging integrated care boards are planning to keep separate “integrated care partnership” committees, in order to retain “an independent focus” on each area’s population health.
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NewsReform mayor objects to ICB merger
A recently elected mayor called for plans to merge their county’s integrated care board with its neighbours to be dropped, warning it is “inconsistent” with the mayoralty’s footprint.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The new foundation trusts
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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CommentBlood transfusion deaths are not just a historic tragedy, they are on the rise
A year after the Infected Blood Inquiry’s final report, serious transfusion risks persist. Trusts must act now to improve safety, reduce waste, and address inequality, warns Cheng Hock Toh and Nnenna Osuji.
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NewsICB chiefs ‘not sulking’ despite feeling ‘systematically undervalued’
Imposing drastic management cuts has revealed to other NHS leaders that integrated care boards “actually have an incredibly important function”, according to the NHS Confederation chief executive.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Neighbourhoods brought to life
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsExclusive: ICBs to shrink to 27 clusters
The consolidation of integrated care boards will result in the 42 organisations moving to 27 clusters, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTech leaders warn against transferring ICB functions
NHS tech leaders have warned that proposals to shift digital functions from integrated care boards to providers pose significant operational risks.
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CommentWe need a national MSK strategy
A national MSK strategy is needed to address the current lack of strategic planning at system level, argues Sue Brown, chief executive of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The new world for ICBs
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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CommentA new job for the CQC
To make integrated care a success, someone needs to monitor the gaps between services, and CQC is the best pick for it, writes Jacob Lant
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CommentPay for CEO performance is a test of NHS leadership strategy
A new government plan to tie NHS executive bonuses to performance aims to drive accountability and reduce waiting times requires careful execution, writes Nora Colton
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NewsUp to a third of ICBs to remain independent despite budget cut
The consolidation of integrated care boards is set to result in at least 13 “clusters”, but will also leave up to 14 ICBs as separate organisations.
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NewsTrusts spending too much ‘pursuing executive talent’
Government pay advisers have raised concerns about trusts spending an estimated £7m a year on recruitment firms “to pursue the same talent” for executive posts.
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CommentNHS funding may be ‘maxed out’ but change is still possible
With NHS funding stretched to its limit, real transformation demands more than just balancing the books — it calls for honest, evidence-based decisions about what to start, stop and sustain, writes Andi Orlowski