West Yorkshire ICS

Leeds Teaching Hospital

Basic errors lay behind trust’s botched IT upgrade, leak reveals

2025-05-30T16:31:00+01:00

A string of basic errors led to a teaching trust botching a pathology lab IT upgrade, causing major disruption to tests, according to an internal review seen by HSJ.

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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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‘Overfunded’ ICBs offer better IVF access

2025-05-19T04:49:00+01:00

Three of the most “overfunded” integrated care boards are offering greater access to IVF than most of their peers, HSJ can reveal.   

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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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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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ICBs missing checks on vulnerable children

2025-02-05T12:49:00+00:00

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.

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Region targets prescription cuts under ‘enormous financial pressure’

2025-01-02T12:30:00+00:00

All but one of a region’s integrated care boards have stopped prescribing gluten-free products to save money, with a charity saying the move will exacerbate inequalities and risk “debilitating symptoms”.

Len Richards

Long-serving CEO retires from trust with big savings target

2024-11-28T12:53:00+00:00

Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust’s chief executive will retire in the spring, the provider has confirmed.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn

Thirteen ICSs now in deficit turnaround

2024-11-15T04:40:00+00:00

Another integrated care system has been ordered to bring in consultants to fix its finances, meaning close to a third of the 42 systems are now in mandatory escalation over their finances.

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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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One of NHS’s top chairs to stand down

2024-10-11T05:06:00+01:00

One of the NHS’s most influential chairs is standing down after over a decade in post at a large teaching hospital trust.

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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.

Rob Webster

Cutting hospital staff won’t help productivity, says ICB chief

2024-09-17T06:37:00+01:00

The leader of an integrated care board has dismissed a “narrative” that the NHS can become more productive by cutting hospital staff numbers.

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Dispute between trust directors triggers NHSE enforcement action

2024-08-19T05:07:00+01:00

NHS England has taken formal enforcement action against a trust after expressing “significant concerns” over a “deterioration” in how its board operates.

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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.

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Hospitals could see 10% hike in referrals under GP action

2024-08-01T05:14:00+01:00

Some areas could receive at least 10 per cent more referrals — “crippling” their attempts at elective recovery — if all GP practices stopped diverting some patients with “specialist advice and guidance”, HSJ analysis shows.

Rob Webster

NHS needs ‘financial reset’, says leading CEO

2024-07-24T10:00:00+01:00

A leading system CEO has called for a “financial reset” for the NHS and a move away from using 2019-20 as the baseline against which elective recovery is measured.

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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. 

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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.

Henry Anderson 2023

Following the Money: Bringing back capital punishment

2024-06-18T13:00:00+01:00

HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.