All articles by Mimi Launder
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ICBs be vaccine hesitant?
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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HSJ LocalPrivate provider criticised for ‘unfair’ decision to quit site
A private provider “just exited” the site from which it was providing diagnostic services without giving formal notice and against the wishes of the commissioning integrated care board, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsICB cuts an ‘absolute shitshow’, say leaders
National policymakers are “working it out as they go along”, and integrated care board staff are “on their knees” amid a confused restructure, local leaders have reported.
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NewsNHSE delays staff transfer to ICBs
NHS England is once again delaying the transfer of specialised commissioning staff to integrated care boards.
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NewsICBs strip digital and workforce directors from top teams
Most chief digital officers and chief people officers are being wiped out of integrated care board top teams in a wave of restructures.
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NewsReform of £10bn integration fund delayed
A move to combine the £10bn “Better Care Fund” with “neighbourhood” plans – and to cut mandatory NHS contributions to social care – has been delayed for at least another year.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Patient choice, ICB cost
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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NewsNew CEO for hospital awaiting major rebuild
A hospital trust has appointed a successor to its chief executive of nearly a decade.
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NewsEleven unions raise grievance over office working
Eleven unions have launched a formal collective grievance with NHS England over its order that staff spend more time in their office, HSJ understands.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The mystery of the Model ICB 2.0
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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NewsCentre spends 2,500 hours a day approving requests, admits DHSC chief
Around 2,500 hours of staff time are spent every day on “clearance processes” across the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England, it has been claimed.
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HSJ LocalChief steps down after decade at hospital trust
A hospital trust CEO is stepping down after nearly six years in post.
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NewsSmall hospices ‘probably unsustainable’, says Mackey
Some small hospices are “probably unsustainable”, Sir Jim Mackey has told MPs, while also warning integrated care boards they needed to clarify their local commissioning intentions this year.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs are set up to fail on hospices
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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NewsCEO announces retirement after 40 years in NHS
A mental health trust chief executive has announced his retirement after nearly four decades in the NHS, and three years leading his organisation.
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NewsICBs told to strengthen relationships
Nine integrated care boards have been told to improve partnership working, in NHS England’s latest formal assessment of their performance.
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NewsHome working ‘a red line’, union tells NHSE
NHS England’s plans to require staff to work in the office more and restrict home working are a “red line” and could trigger a formal dispute, a union has claimed.
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NewsNon-British NHSE staff forced out by abolition
Nearly 200 NHS England staff have been told they may need to leave because they cannot work for the Daprtment of Health and Social Care as they are not UK or Commonwealth nationals.
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NewsNHSE staff ordered to increase office working
NHS England has told staff they must work in the office more and that no new home working contracts will be offered, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRedundancy rules relaxed for NHSE and ICB staff
Staff taking voluntary redundancy under the national NHS scheme will no longer face payment clawbacks if they get a job in government outside of health, HSJ has learned.