All articles by Mimi Launder – Page 3
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ACOs are back
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integrated care system correspondent Mimi Launder and deputy editor Dave West
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NewsICBs 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.
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NewsJoint working with councils to be ‘less bureaucratic’, promises NHSE
Central intervention in how areas use the Better Care Fund will be more targeted this year, with a “less bureaucratic” process promised for most areas.
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NewsTrusts to take on ICB responsibilities next year
Some trusts will take over responsibility for the “planning and transformation” of services from integrated care boards by March next year, according to the 2025-26 national planning guidance.
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NewsCQC examining service which ‘gave 14 people unnecessary cancer treatment’
Fourteen patients have raised concerns they may have received unnecessary chemotherapy with “debilitating side effects” at the same hospital, some for a decade or more, HSJ has been told.
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NewsICBs ‘exit’ 800 staff in cost-cutting programme
Integrated care boards paid exit packages to 809 staff under centrally-ordered cost cuts last year, with some spending four to five times the average, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsNHSE commends ICBs for ‘strong leadership’
The quality of leadership at 13 integrated care boards has been praised by NHS England in its latest formal assessment of their performance.
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NewsRevealed: 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.
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NewsRegion targets prescription cuts under ‘enormous financial pressure’
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”.
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NewsCouncil reorganisation may lead to ICS boundary changes
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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HSJ LocalMental health nurse appointed trust CEO
A trust has appointed a mental health nurse as its permanent chief executive, after he held the post in an interim capacity for over a year.
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HSJ LocalICB names third chair in eight months
An integrated care board has appointed its third temporary chair since April, blaming the general election for the high turnover.
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HSJ LocalCEO’s bullying claims are ‘outright lies’, says chair
An acute trust chair has claimed its former chief executive – who is accusing him of bullying and harassment – put on “an act” of being distressed by his actions.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Losing the plot?
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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HSJ LocalStreeting’s ‘targets and terror won’t work’, trust chair warns
Wes Streeting is “sounding like a merchant of doom” and is wrong to call the NHS “broken”, a trust chair has said in a strongly worded commentary to his board.
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HSJ LocalICS with ‘decade-old deficit’ drops to worst financial tier
An integrated care board has been relegated to the lowest tier of NHS England’s financial management regime.
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NewsICS told it’s ‘top down’ and ‘lacks effective leadership’
An under-pressure integrated care system has been told it lacks “effective leadership” and is “too centralised and top-down” in a survey of partner organisations.
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HSJ Local‘No solution’ after firm’s closure leaves children waiting for diagnosis
A trust has paused autism assessments of primary school-aged children after being unable to find a “cost effective” provider.
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NewsAppointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success
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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HSJ LocalTwo ICBs to share the same chair
Two very different integrated care boards are to share the same chair.