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News18 ICBs warned over deaths following care failures
Disjointed, delayed, and substandard care for people with both mental illness and additional needs are highlighted throughout reports sent to integrated care boards on the deaths of 24 people, HSJ has found.
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News‘Care gaps, poor communication and a 26-day stay in A&E’ lay behind death
A coroner has ordered an integrated care board to fill gaps in its services and address mental health bed shortages following the death of a 29-year-old with autism and ADHD who spent 26 days in A&E.
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NewsTrust U-turns on axing service over funding cut
A hospital trust has agreed to keep running its sexual health service, despite a funding cut of nearly £500,000.
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NewsTop-rated ICS downgraded by NHS England
The only integrated care system in the top tier of NHS England’s oversight framework has been downgraded, it has emerged.
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NewsICBs ‘exit’ 800 staff in cost-cutting programme
Integrated care boards paid exit packages to 809 staff under centrally-ordered cost cuts last year, with some spending four to five times the average, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsLowest-paid NHS staff to get emergency salary top-up
Ministers will give the lowest-paid NHS staff an emergency salary top-up to prevent them falling below the National Living Wage.
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NewsUK health AI firm criticises NHSE procurement as it goes bust
A British health AI company has been wound up after failing to win any contracts under a government innovation scheme.
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NewsThe 16 trusts still providing free staff parking revealed
At least five of the 21 remaining acute trusts with free staff parking are planning to reintroduce charges or have already done so, HSJ has learned.
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NewsThree trusts to share same EPR
A single electronic patient record is to be shared by three trusts across a system in a deal announced this week.
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NewsRow between ICB and provider over ‘significant’ waiting times rise
An integrated care board has blamed an audiology services provider for causing “significant increases” in waiting times – sparking a complaint of “bullying” by the company, which also accuses the ICB of not providing enough funding.
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NewsOverhaul of A&E ‘block contracts’ to be trialled this year
The NHS plans to trial radical changes to how urgent and emergency care is paid for in 2025-26, as part of a new improvement plan for the sector, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Leak reveals national plans to tackle A&E crisis
A raft of reforms NHS England and the government are proposing to address the crisis in urgent and emergency care can be revealed after a draft of the recovery plan was obtained by HSJ.
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NewsHigh-risk hospitals delayed despite government assurances
At least two trusts whose hospitals rely on high-risk concrete will not open replacements until after 2030, despite theoretically being prioritised by government.
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NewsCEO and finance chief to leave £90m deficit ICB
The chief executive and chief financial officer of an integrated care board under financial strain have both announced their resignation.
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NewsSpecialist unit a step closer after 13 years in planning
A long-awaited hyperacute stroke unit could finally be opened – 13 years after it was first mooted.
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NewsICB to lose another leader
An integrated care board in the Midlands is facing more leadership churn as its interim chief executive has announced she will retire this summer.
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NewsInfluential figures call for ‘single UEC service’ for NHS
The NHS should create a “single 24/7 service” for urgent and emergency care to address what is currently a “fragmented and disjointed” system, six expert groups have said.
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NewsExclusive: Expert review concludes NHS ‘got winter it prepared for’
A new plan authored by six leading expert groups and shared exclusively with HSJ has concluded the NHS “got the winter it prepared for” and warned poor standards of urgent and emergency care has been “normalised and accepted”.
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News‘New hospital’ teams face axe after funding withdrawn
Multiple trusts in the “new hospitals programme” are likely to have to axe the teams preparing their builds, as national funding is set to be withdrawn, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRegulator names fourth CEO in seven months
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has appointed its fourth chief executive in just over six months.