South Yorkshire ICS

Mahmud Nawaz

Ex-banker to chair teaching hospital after stint at neighbour

2025-07-22T12:02:00+01:00

A major teaching trust has appointed a new chair.

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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.

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Consultancy called in to review trust's staff 'experience'

2025-07-07T04:25:00+01:00

A trust grappling with concerns over culture has commissioned an independent review into staff experience.

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Trusts announce shared chair and director

2025-06-25T03:59:00+01:00

A South Yorkshire trust is to share a chair with its neighbour as part of a programme of “partnership working”.

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.

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Trust adopts neighbour’s EPR

2025-05-21T06:19:00+01:00

One of the final seven trusts without an electronic patient record is set to partner with its neighbour to implement Oracle Health’s system.

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Trust in row with BMA over senior doctor

2025-05-15T15:09:00+01:00

A hospital trust is involved in a row with the British Medical Association amid concerns over a ’bullying culture’, it has emerged.

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‘Unaffordable’ care spending driven by rush to clear hospital beds

2025-04-25T05:50:00+01:00

The rush from acute hospitals to “free up beds” is probably behind an “unaffordable” rise in an integrated care board’s social care spending, it has been told.

Clive Betts

Trusts overspending with ‘no consequence’, says senior MP

2025-03-06T12:51:00+00:00

Reforms will be lost in the “black hole of the NHS” unless the health service fixes productivity and stops overspending with “no consequence”, senior MPs have said.

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New regional director named by NHSE

2025-02-27T12:30:00+00:00

NHS England has named a new regional director for the North East and Yorkshire, nine months after her substantive predecessor left.

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Council reorganisation may lead to ICS boundary changes

2024-12-16T17:13:00+00:00

Government wants health organisation boundaries to “align” with devolved regional authorities in the long term, it says in a white paper published today. 

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Appointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success

2024-10-18T11:51:00+01:00

The large size of integrated care systems in the North East and Yorkshire region — and the ex-trust CEO leaders they attracted — has underpinned their relatively strong performance, a new report suggests.

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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.

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Trust to limit ‘non-essential’ CT scans as deficit rises

2024-10-03T11:00:00+01:00

A Yorkshire acute trust is reviewing its use of diagnostic scans with a view to “limiting non-essential procedures” as it tries to bring down its deficit, according to internal messages sent to staff.

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Revealed: The 22 areas testing radical changes to GP operating model

2024-09-25T04:51:00+01:00

HSJ can reveal the 22 primary care networks taking part in an unprecedented national programme designing a new “GP operating model” set to influence the national GP contract.

Simon Worthington

NHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis

2024-09-23T04:10:00+01:00

Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.

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Revealed: ICBs which cut staff by a fifth in 12 months

2024-09-16T12:03:00+01:00

Several integrated care boards have cut their staffing by up to a fifth in a single year – after being asked to reduce management costs – but significant variation exists, HSJ  analysis shows.

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‘Conflict of interest’ concerns over consultants hired to fix NHS finances

2024-08-30T04:57:00+01:00

Concerns have been raised that consultants advising systems on savings plans could be “marking their own homework”, with many of the firms having already done similar exercises for the same organisations.

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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.