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NewsNew chair for ICB facing £136m deficit
An experienced integrated care board leader has been drafted in to chair a board overseeing one of the country’s most troubled systems.
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NewsICB plan says trust must cut staff by 15%
An acute trust would have to cut its workforce by almost 15 per cent and its costs by 26 per cent under a draft five-year plan set by its integrated care board.
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NewsICB with 30-fold increase in neurodiversity spend now paying 42 private providers
An integrated care board which has seen the amount it spends on autism and ADHD care increase 30-fold in three years is set to bust its budget again.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts that failed to sign up to NHSE’s financial plans
Ten trusts and one integrated care board had still not provided financially compliant plans for 2026-27 by the end of the first quarter, according to NHS England’s latest data.
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NewsTrusts failed to act on 9,000 lost patients for five years
Clinicians and managers knew of problems with an ear, nose, and throat waiting list five years before a backlog of nearly 9,000 patients came to light, an NHS England review has found.
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NewsICB ‘owes council north of £40m’ in care dispute
An integrated care board owes a council “north of £40m” for the costs of accommodating patients after discharge, a councillor has claimed.
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NewsFirst ‘neighbourhood contract’ links GP income to A&E attendances
Some £1.7m of primary care revenue will be tied to A&E attendances from next year, under a first-of-its-kind “neighbourhood” contract deal.
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NewsRevealed: The systems being denied deficit support
One system accounts for more than a quarter of the £460m of deficit support funding withheld from 13 systems by NHS England this year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRevealed: Seven systems now forecasting £400m overspend
Seven integrated care systems are now forecasting a combined overspend of £400m, according to an HSJ analysis of the latest official data.
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NewsICB declares ‘very serious’ £200m deficit
An integrated care board has revised the year-end financial forecast for its system from breakeven to a £198m deficit, with two months to go.
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NewsICB suspends access to private provider
A private provider of assessment and treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders has been suspended from NHS work, it has emerged.
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NewsRevealed: £260m deficit support withheld from 10 systems
NHS England has withheld over £260m from 10 local systems due to concerns over finances, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsContract awards go ahead as ICBs plead they are running out of staff
Integrated care boards have told a court imminent redundancies meant they needed to be able to award more than £100m in contracts while they still had the staff.
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NewsICB staff told to work in the office
everal integrated care boards are telling staff they must work a lot more in the office.
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NewsStruggling trusts form group
Two small and struggling trusts have announced they are forming a group, with a shared chair and chief executive.
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CommentBetter clinical homecare is crucial to an effective neighbourhood health service
New data from a pharma-funded study shows clinical homecare keeps people out of hospitals and must be part of the new National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, writes Stephen Cook
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NewsICB chief moves to lead neighbour
Two integrated care board chief executives have been confirmed in the South East, including one incumbent moving to lead their challenged neighbour.
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NewsSeventh ICB chief steps down in string of departures
An integrated care board CEO has announced he will leave this autumn, becoming the seventh in a string of departures from ICBs which are not clustering or merging.
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NewsICBs set to miss government cost-cutting target
A series of integrated care boards have said they will not be able to meet the deadline to cut staffing costs by the end of 2025, due to a lack of central funding for redundancies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsWe will no longer tolerate ‘negative behaviours’, pledges ICB
An integrated care board has apologised to staff and pledged to no longer tolerate a range of “negative behaviours” identified by a report into the organisation’s culture.