Coventry and Warwickshire ICS

Optometrist

Patients lost sight due to poor care, trust admits

2025-07-21T11:45:00+01:00

Multiple glaucoma patients have suffered significant harm, including loss of sight, after treatment guidelines were not followed by more than one member of staff over a number of years at the same trust, HSJ has learned.

Accounts and pen

Five systems lose £100m deficit support

2025-07-18T12:18:00+01:00

Five integrated care systems have had their deficit support funding withheld as a result of overspending or failing to deliver savings, NHS England has revealed.

Surgery surgeons

NHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals

2025-05-22T05:05:00+01:00

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.

Stressed doctor with stethoscope

Hospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day

2025-04-25T12:10:00+01:00

A “technical failure” caused a hospital trust to send 15-20,000 discharge letters to local GP practices on the day before the Easter bank holiday weekend, some of which dated back four months.

Money, finance and accounts

Revealed: The systems set to gain and lose hundreds of millions

2025-04-10T05:49:00+01:00

Nine integrated care systems are set to lose hundreds of millions in NHS funding relative to others in coming years – while eight stand to make big gains – under new NHS England funding policy.

Achieving weight loss with orlistat

ICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs

2025-03-25T05:53:00+00:00

Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

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Revealed: The ICBs with greatest ‘opportunity’ to avoid admissions

2025-03-12T13:10:00+00:00

The systems which NHS England says have the greatest “opportunities” to boost their use of same-day emergency care can be revealed for the first time.

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NHSE commends ICBs for ‘strong leadership’

2025-01-20T05:43:00+00:00

The quality of leadership at 13 integrated care boards has been praised by NHS England in its latest formal assessment of their performance.

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Revealed: 14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector

2025-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Nearly half of all integrated care boards are due to cut their spending on voluntary, community and social enterprise services this financial year, HSJ analysis suggests.

CT scanner

Three ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits

2024-10-08T04:57:00+01:00

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.

Map ambulance response

Revealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS

2024-08-09T04:33:00+01:00

A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.

Julian Kelly

Eleven ICSs warned of ‘significant concern’ about overspending

2024-07-26T05:50:00+01:00

Around three quarters of England’s 42 integrated care systems have been unable to set balanced budgets for 2024-25, NHS England has revealed.

Mobile phone

Threefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed

2024-07-12T05:35:00+01:00

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. 

money coins finance

Exclusive: NHSE begins to claw back funding from ICSs to pay off historic debts

2024-06-20T11:14:00+01:00

Three-quarters of integrated care systems face funding cuts of up to £20m as a result of NHS England’s insistence they start paying back overspends from previous years, HSJ  analysis has discovered.

ambulance

Trust’s ‘leadership behaviour’ attacked by six ICBs

2024-05-03T04:57:00+01:00

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.

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‘Untenable stalemate’ is halting GP practice upgrades, say ICBs

2024-02-16T05:09:00+00:00

An “untenable stalemate” in funding has virtually halted GP practice building work, despite national commitments to expand primary care, multiple NHS organisations are warning.

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Trust appoints new chair from ICB

2024-01-23T05:01:00+00:00

An acute trust in the West Midlands has appointed a new chair from its neighbouring integrated care board.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

£800m deal to transfer control of community services to acutes

2024-01-15T05:38:00+00:00

An integrated care board is planning to hand over control of community services worth an annual £80m to two acute trusts for the next five to 10 years.

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Two ICBs appoint chief executives

2023-11-23T12:35:00+00:00

Two integrated care boards in the Midlands have made their interim chief executives substantive.

HSJ Awards 2023 3x2

HSJ Awards 2023: Performance Recovery Award

2023-11-17T00:01:00+00:00

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