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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: A new direction for integration
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
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NewsLeaders lukewarm about key provider reforms
Leading trust chief executives are split on the desirability of becoming advanced foundation trusts, an HSJ roundtable has heard.
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NewsSurge in complaints about children’s care and refusal to refer
Complaints about paediatric care and GPs refusing to make referrals to specialist services leapt over the past year, HSJ analysis suggests, as overall concerns hit record levels.
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CommentIgnorant NHSE is biased against primary care
Neighbourhood health will not succeed through new structures and contracts alone; it requires stronger family medicine, community services and local partnerships built around the needs of patients
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NewsNo ‘space’ for an IHO here, says trust CEO
The CEO of one of the NHS’s best-performing trusts has told HSJ he does not think “there’s much space” for an integrated health organisation in his area.
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NewsGovernment U-turns on transfer of ICB functions
Integrated care boards will have to carry out more than a dozen functions earmarked for transfer to other bodies for at least another year despite huge cuts in their workforce, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust to top up funding of struggling GP practices
An acute and community trust has decided to use its own money to boost the funding of a dozen local GP practices with low patient satisfaction scores, HSJ has learned.
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NewsICB faces potential legal battle over funding row
Three GP practices are threatening to sue their integrated care board over its plans to cut premises funding.
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NewsRevealed: NHSE plan to ‘grip’ GP performance
NHS England intends to “improve operational grip” on GP performance and has warned it may lead to “contractual action”.
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CommentComing clean about dental rationing
NHS dentistry requires a shift from repeated contract tinkering towards explicit choices about rationing, equity and capacity, supported by a carefully sequenced package of reforms
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NewsRevealed: The ICBs closest to hitting new access target
More than one in five clinically urgent GP appointments were not seen on the same day – but some areas are coming close to delivering the NHS England access requirement in 90 per cent of cases – new data reveals.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Trust us, we’re the ICB
This week we talk about why an integrated care board in the North West is risking the wrath of GPs after cutting back its digital offering, in a move that has also raised concerns about its procurement practices.
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NewsICB orders all GPs to use ‘distrusted’ IT system
An integrated care board has ordered all of its 337 GP practices to use a single digital access system and is switching off five rival products to save money.
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NewsRevealed: ICBs where majority use private dentist
More people have access to a private dentist than an NHS one in nine integrated care board areas – mostly driven by poor NHS provision, according to new figures.
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NewsTech problem delays elective reform target
Concerns have been raised about NHS England watering down a key target for its controversial “advice and guidance” scheme, just weeks ahead of the October deadline.
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NewsGP leaders seek end to ‘hostilities’
The British Medical Association’s GP committee has voted against escalating its “collective action”, in a bid to “reset” its relationship with government and NHS England.
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NewsSix ‘neighbourhoods’ seek investors to ‘derisk’ expansion
Six “neighbourhood health” projects are being pump-primed by government to secure millions of pounds of private investment.
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CommentA more robust approach to GP registration for overseas visitors is needed
Optional identity verification and free care for short-term overseas visitors leave general practice vulnerable to serious information governance failures and rising taxpayer costs
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Putting advice and guidance on ice
This week the national safety watchdog effectively called for a pause in NHS England’s “advice and guidance” rollout after linking it to two deaths.
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News‘Serious failure of governance’ at ‘coach crash’ GP practice
The last remaining partner at a collapsing GP practice has admitted a “serious failure of governance” and likened its problems to a “coach crash”.