£500m cut to local integration funds revealed
Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021–22. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 8, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Exclusive: Ministers trigger review of CQC inspection regime
The government is launching a review of the Care Quality Commission and has appointed a senior NHS figure to lead it, HSJ understands. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 8, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
NHS overly protective of its workforce, says social services leader
The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has accused the NHS of wanting to “protect its workforce” at the cost of developing a more effective health and care system. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 7, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Joint ICB/trust committee given binding powers to improve system’s care quality
An integrated care system has agreed to establish a unique body comprising both commissioners and providers, which will be empowered to make binding decisions affecting the entire health economy. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 7, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
EXCLUSIVE: Trusts regularly breaching security standards
Twenty one serious security failures at hospital mortuaries were discovered by the Human Tissues Authority between April 2022 and March 2024, HSJ can reveal. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 7, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
The mythbuster: The hard choices the NHS avoids
Steve Black highlights how the NHS should opt for tough choices over popular solutions for sustainable improvement and productivity enhancement (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 7, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
HSJ Weekly Catch-up: Rethinking targets, belittling staff and quizzing leaders
Your essential update on health for the week. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 3, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Shared EPR plan for three trusts gets go-ahead
An integrated care system in the South West has had plans to install a shared electronic patient record system across its three acute trusts approved by NHS England. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 3, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Lead governor’s suspension over vice-chair row a ‘terrible move’
The lead governor of a foundation trust has been suspended after she criticised the handling of a recruitment process to appoint its vice chair, HSJ has discovered. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 3, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
National programme seeks new ‘GP operating model’
Seven integrated care boards are to test new “operating models” for GP provision under a wide-ranging programme backed by NHS England, they announced today. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 2, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
ICBs challenged over ‘untenable’ GP workload
Integrated care boards must do more to tackle the operational failings that saddle GPs with “untenable workloads”, a group of local medical committees have warned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 2, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Radical rule changes would boost NHS recovery, say chiefs
The vast majority of ICB chiefs believe “drastically reducing data sharing restrictions” would help them achieve their aims, according to HSJ’s survey. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 2, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Revealed: ICBs plan pay bill squeeze and provider consolidation
Strict pay controls and more provider centralisation are key to recovery plans in most integrated care systems, according to an HSJ survey of NHS leaders. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 2, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Ex-DH boss takes NHS and data firm jobs
A former candidate to be NHS England’s chief executive has been appointed to chair a health innovation network, as well as to a board role at a data and AI company. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 1, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Hospital rebuild ‘highly unlikely’ to hit government deadline
Replacement of a hospital in dire condition is “highly unlikely” to be completed before the end of the decade – as promised under the government’s “40 new hospitals” plan – a trust has warned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 1, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
