All articles by Sharon Brennan – Page 2
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Senior NHS England staff face redundancy with creation of ICSs
Some senior posts in NHS England and NHS Improvement could be made redundant as part of the creation of integrated care systems, the organisations have said.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Tussles for ICS influence are coming soon
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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NHS England reveals who will sit on ICS boards
NHS England has set out who will be required to be on the NHS board of each integration care system.
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ICSs asked for ‘fully staffed’ long covid plans by mid-July
NHS England has asked integrated care systems to develop ‘fully staffed’ long covid treatment plans in the next month, and is providing £70m to enable them to do so.
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Stevens: My successor must ‘speak out for what is right’
Sir Simon Stevens has advised his successor they should not ‘be afraid to stand up and speak out for what is right’.
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New health bill may create ‘bureaucratic nightmare’, ICS leader warns
The senior NHS leader who is representing integrated care systems has warned government and NHS reform proposals risk creating a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’.
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HSJ Local
New leader pledges support for controversial single county ICS
The new Conservative leader of Essex County Council Kevin Bentley has put himself on a collision course with senior NHS leaders in his area by throwing his support behind the health secretary’s vision for a single county integrated care system.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Systems expecting instructions on exec roles
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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‘Zero progress’ made on covid tests for visually impaired people
Charities have said rapid covid tests remain ‘completely inaccessible’ to blind people, despite the government claiming it has made efforts — including collaborating with charities — to improve access.
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Trust told to take ‘urgent’ action over risks to cancer patients
An external review has issued a series of ‘urgent recommendations’ to a specialist cancer service around patient safety risks.
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NHS chiefs press Treasury for ‘game-changing’ discharge fund
NHS leaders are pressing government for a ‘game changing’ discharge fund to be made permanently available.
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Hospital chief to retire after nearly 20 years in post
A long-serving chief executive has announced his retirement after almost two decades in the job.
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Quarantine for overseas doctors risks ‘devastating impact’ on staffing
Ministers should exempt doctors from ‘red-listed’ countries from paying ‘prohibitive’ hotel quarantine charges or risk a ‘devastating impact’ on the NHS, the British Medical Association has said.
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New law to dissolve CCGs and curtail the internal market confirmed
The government has confirmed its commitment to bring in new health legislation during this Parliament, but social care reform has again been ‘kicked into the long grass’.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Trusts will find new NHSE guidance on provider collaboratives hard to swallow
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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Trust accused of ‘combative leadership’ announces new chief exec
East of England Ambulance Service Trust has appointed a new chief executive after nine months with an interim at the helm.
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"Commercial partners" could take over "entirety" of planned imaging networks
New diagnostic imaging networks will be of such scale that they will be ‘significant operation businesses in their own right’ and will ‘need a distinct identity and arm’s length separation from the trusts’, NHS England has said.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: NHSE split over direction of provider collaboratives
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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Health secretary could prop up unsafe services with new power, say NHS leaders
New powers given to the health secretary as part of proposed legislation could make local services unsafe, NHS Providers has warned the House of Commons health select committee.
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Region sees first sustained rise in covid admissions since January
A region has had a small but sustained rise in covid hospital admissions, for the first time since the peak of the winter wave, HSJ analysis shows