All articles by Mimi Launder
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NewsICB bids to save its Healthwatch branch from abolition
An integrated care board is planning to pay £1.6m to retain its local Healthwatch for the next four years.
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NewsRevealed: The eight trusts with ‘worse than expected’ inpatient care
Eight trusts performed “worse than expected”, the Care Quality Commission’s annual survey of inpatient experience at acute and specialist trusts has revealed.
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NewsFresh delay as ICB staff await compulsory redundancy
Around 50 staff facing compulsory redundancy in an integrated care board cluster have complained of a two-month delay as they wait for NHS England to sign off their departures.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The strategic commissioning skills gap
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsMapped: Most ICBs clash with devo footprints
Just six out of 25 integrated care board and cluster footprints match a current or proposed strategic authority boundary, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsLeague table positions wrong due to data error
An error in a trust’s performance data means all providers’ current positions in mental health and community trust league tables are incorrect.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Restructuring all over again
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsGPs and ambulance trusts must do more to combat winter pressures, insists NHSE
Primary and community care will be expected to play a much bigger role in helping the NHS deal with winter pressures this year, NHS England has told the service.
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NewsYou’re ‘too gentle’ with those who abuse staff, police tell trust
NHS staff “tolerate too much” abuse and trusts are “too gentle” with perpetrators, police have told the workforce of a large district general hospital.
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NewsMake us feel ‘safe’ while we drive reform, ICBs tell NHSE
Greater “air cover” from NHS England and “assurance” that commissioning leaders will not suffer from making difficult decisions has been demanded by integrated care boards.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Can ICBs still deliver SEND?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsHealth experience no longer ‘essential’ for ICB chiefs
A new NHS England template job description for integrated care board chief executives has dropped a requirement for “executive healthcare experience”, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The DHSC needs an offer on devo
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West and correspondent Mimi Launder.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Totally divorced from reality
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsCapital approvals still ‘very, very elongated’, says CFO
Approval processes for NHS capital spending remain “very, very elongated” – despite promised improvements – an experienced chief finance officer has told MPs.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What makes an advanced foundation trust?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsICB clusters told to merge
Clustered integrated care boards should merge by next April, even if it is likely they will cut across future regional government footprints, NHS England has said.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: NHSE takes aim at ‘cost shifting’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsVulnerable children denied surgery as cancer patients prioritised
Cancer waiting time pressures have led an acute trust to withdraw an offer to treat children with complex needs in its theatres.
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NewsMidwives ‘awake for 24hrs’ at under-fire maternity unit
A maternity service has been given a “good” rating by the Care Quality Commission, despite midwives reporting being asked to work back-to-back shifts with no sleep breaks.