All articles by Mimi Launder – Page 4
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NewsRevealed: ICBs spending the most and least on staffing
New figures shared with HSJ reveal how much each integrated care board spends on its staffing, with a two-fold variation per head of population.
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NewsNHSE vows to end ‘bombardment’ of trusts
NHS England has vowed to ”reduce duplication and prevent providers from being bombarded with conflicting instructions”, including by removing integrated care boards’ performance management role.
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NewsNHSE admits ‘devaluing of commissioning’
NHS England hopes to tackle “a perceived devaluing of commissioning” and enhance “the skills and professional identity of commissioners”, as part of the future of integrated care boards, a leaked document reveals.
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News‘Reform standstill’ threatened over ICB cuts
Service reform and “strategic commissioning” may be “brought to a standstill” by steep cuts to integrated care boards, leaders have warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs in limbo and under pressure
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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News‘Foundation ICSs’ considered for 10-Year Plan
Ministers have been advised to create a “foundation” status for high-performing integrated care systems by one of their policy groups – shortly before government decided to slash 50 per cent from systems’ management costs – HSJ has been told.
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NewsMackey names new top team at NHSE
NHS England transition CEO Sir Jim Mackey has named his top team, including drafting in four more hospital trust CEOs.
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NewsNHSE to be formally abolished
Government will legislate to abolish NHS England and make it “fully integrated” into the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Clues to the 10-Year Plan
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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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Exposing the gaps in community services
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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NewsCity to simulate neighbourhood health service
NHS England will be supporting a “simulation” of a “neighbourhood health service” in London this spring.
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HSJ LocalTrust appoints primary care leader as chair
A mental health trust has named a primary care leader as its new chair after the previous appointee decided against taking up the role.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England chair named
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed its preferred candidate to be the new chair of NHS England.
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NewsTwo trust CEOs become NHS England advisers
Two foundation trust chief executives have joined NHS England as unpaid national advisers for community health services and developing neighbourhood health.
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HSJ LocalCounty’s ambulance waits plunge to worst in England
Waits for serious ambulance calls in Northamptonshire now rank the worst in the country, after a surge put down to winter pressures and lengthy handover delays.
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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.