NHSE declares £1.5bn of ‘risk’ in financial plans
A large number of local trust and commissioner financial plans are still “high risk”, NHS England has said.
Following the Money: Streeting ends deficits
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
Nine systems get extra deficit funding
Nine integrated care systems have been allowed to set higher planned deficits than last year, new figures show.
NHSE tells ICBs to slow elective referrals
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.
Last-minute ICS bailouts ‘fuel distrust with NHSE’
Integrated care systems across the country have received last-minute bailouts to improve their financial positions at the end of 2024-25, HSJ has learned.
Directors accuse NHSE of ‘imposing solutions’ on systems and trusts
A network representing data chiefs in the NHS has raised concerns about “programme drift” in the national federated data platform (FDP) programme.
ICBs missing checks on vulnerable children
Integrated care boards are warning they are failing to carry out health checks for vulnerable children in care because of a lack of paediatricians and rising demand, HSJ has found.
Hospital chief moves to nearby trust
The chief executive of a trust awaiting a critical Care Quality Commission report has been appointed to lead another provider in the region.
Trust blames £1.8bn tender for going six months without board meeting
A community trust is set to go six months without a public board meeting – giving winter pressures and a large community services tender as its reasons.
Specialist 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.
Revealed: 14 ICBs cutting spend on the third sector
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.
Trust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO
An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.
NHSE deputy to join ICB
One of NHS England’s national finance team is leaving to join an integrated care board.
ICS told to bring in consultants to cut spending
Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to find ways to make further savings.
Trust in row with BMA over ‘regional rate card’
A large hospital trust’s attempt to reduce its medical rates for extra shifts to bring them in line with other trusts in the region has sparked a row with the British Medical Association
Three ICSs responsible for a quarter of very long diagnostic waits
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.
Revealed: Three-fold variation in emergency response time by ICS
A threefold variation in ambulance response for serious, urgent conditions has been revealed in new figures.
Auditors discover ‘significant weakness’ in trust’s financial plans
An external auditor has warned of a “significant weakness” in a high-performing trust’s financial sustainability because of its under-delivery on efficiency savings.
Threefold ICS variation in GP phone access revealed
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.
Trust to take on 2,500 long-waiters after buying private hospital
A trust that recently bought a small private hospital is to take on 2,500 long-waiters from across its integrated care system.