FINANCE: NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland, along with the Eastern Leicestershire CCG, is to receive £4m from the Department of Health to redevelop integrated primary, community and mental health services.
Prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 March that around £330m of extra funding would be spent on providing “state of the art” equipment and facilities to improve services for patients.
The money will be handed out in 2012-13.
6 March 2012
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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.
An integrated care board has appointed its third temporary chair since April, blaming the general election for the high turnover.
An integrated care board chair has announced he will step down this spring after an extended period of ill health.
Staff at a Midlands integrated care board were offered an extra day holiday in December to go “festive shopping”, but the plan was then cancelled because of “escalating pressures”.
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