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Finance

Maudsley

Trust takes legal action over delays to £100m construction project

2025-05-28T10:00:00+01:00By Ben Clover

A trust is taking legal action against a contractor it says botched part of a £103m development.

  • South comes off worst from government capital funding boost

  • NHSE funding rule ‘deliberately unfair’ to non-acute trusts

  • On Call: Streeting’s plans for senior manager pay

  • Trust’s contract management ‘poor or non-existent’

  • Ministers sign off capital boost for ‘high-performing’ systems

  • Following the Money: Capital is flowing away from need

  • Systems with largest repair bills have capital budgets cut

  • DHSC brings in business chiefs to help NHS ‘get more value’

  • ICB functions radically reduced in national ‘blueprint’

Leadership

AHXK1T

Pioneering ICB set to be split up

2025-05-27T04:30:00+01:00

A pioneering integrated care system is expected to be split up because of nationally-imposed cost cuts, and to match boundaries.

  • Trusts spending too much ‘pursuing executive talent’

  • On Call: Streeting’s plans for senior manager pay

  • CQC hires trust director as chief inspector of hospitals

  • Troubled trust to appoint shared CEO with community provider

  • ICB merger timetable revealed

  • Trust in row with BMA over senior doctor

  • Pay for ICB managers set higher than trusts

  • No pay rise for managers of worst-performing trusts

  • Trust poaches CEO back from Wales

Commissioning

empty board room meeting

ICB merger timetable revealed

2025-05-20T04:52:00+01:00By Mimi Launder

Most integrated care boards are expected to “cluster” with neighbours “as soon as possible” and formally merge in either April 2026 or 2027, according to internal NHS England guidance seen by HSJ.

  • ICBs shouldn’t offload functions ‘overnight’, says NHSE director

  • NHSE delays staff transfer to ICBs

  • Reforming the NHS and local government simultaneously is a big risk

  • Which ICBs are heading for merger?

  • Places do not know what is expected of them

  • ICBs are still needed

  • A warning from Wales for Wes Streeting

  • Details of new cap on ICB staff spend revealed

  • Real-time patient feedback should drive service improvement

Acute care

Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Troubled trust to appoint shared CEO with community provider

2025-05-20T11:00:00+01:00By Caitlin Tilley

A struggling acute trust has announced plans to share a chief executive with its neighbouring community provider as it explores a new group model.

  • Mapped: RTT waiting times

  • Inequalities, staffing and safety measures axed by NHSE

  • Government accused of misleading claim on health hubs

  • Director who helped force out CEO resigns from trust

  • The Integrator: Mandating integration could go wrong

  • Hospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day

  • NHSE director sent into consultant-revolt trust

  • Mapped: RTT waiting times

  • Provider’s board clearout sparks ‘real shock’

Government/DH policy

JOE TALORA

The Download: Marching into No.10

2025-05-23T12:27:00+01:00By Ben Clover and Joe Talora

The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.

  • HSJ Podcast: The state of maternity services

  • HSJ Podcast: Why AI isn’t taking off in the NHS

  • The Download: Market failure?

  • HSJ Podcast: ICBs get their marching orders

  • NHSE reorganisation plans delayed

  • Ex-health secretary attacks ‘drastic’ ICB shake-up

  • HSJ Podcast: The making of a Health Bill – part 1

  • The Download: The FDP is an ‘empty box’ in many areas

  • The Download: What next for frontline digitisation?

Mental Health

Waiting room

NHSE funding rule ‘deliberately unfair’ to non-acute trusts

2025-05-23T11:58:00+01:00By Henry Anderson

Mental health, community and ambulance trusts have raised fresh concerns they are losing out under NHS funding rules – with one provider facing a £16m shortfall in recent years.

  • Patient Safety Watch: Baby death targets missed and negligence bill hits £58bn

  • Trust predicts ‘standstill’ in very long waits

  • CEO: TV show sparked ‘overwhelming’ regulator scrutiny

  • Inequalities, staffing and safety measures axed by NHSE

  • Exclusive: Trust investigated for manslaughter over three deaths

  • Mental Health Matters: Mackey on mental health

  • NHSE budget cuts hit maternity, children and prevention

  • Revealed: Trusts spending millions on B&B rooms

  • Mental health sidelined in key waiting list policy

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