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Major provider joins NHSE’s most challenged group
University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has joined four other trusts in NHS England’s most challenged category for all three of elective, diagnostic and cancer performance.
Acute and mental health trusts appoint first shared chair
An acute trust and a mental health trust in the Midlands have announced they are to share a chair, which they say will create more opportunities for joined-up care.
ICB appoints acting chair after predecessor’s sudden exit
An integrated care board has appointed an acting chair after the previous boss stood down suddenly earlier this year.
Smallest ICB appoints chair despite consolidation talks
The integrated care board with the smallest population has appointed a new chair, despite the expected consolidation of ICBs.
Trust hits back at ‘personal targeting’ of its CEO
A trust has defended its chief executive amid criticism by union leaders and intervention by the health and social care secretary.
ICS holds out against NHSE financial targets
A single system has refused to sign up to financial targets set by NHSE, HSJ has learned.
Cut ‘board headcount’, ICBs told
A “blueprint” for integrated care board cost-cuts says “headcount should be reduced at board level”.
ICB functions radically reduced in national ‘blueprint’
More than a dozen functions have been earmarked for “transfer” out of integrated care boards, including workforce planning, primary care, and digital leadership.
Children waiting more than two years for tooth extractions
Children needing a general anaesthetic for tooth extraction are waiting nearly three years in a hidden crisis that is not recorded on national waiting lists.
Private providers costing ICB ‘three times more’ than NHS equivalent
NHS-funded access to private autism and ADHD services is “unsustainable” and “up to three times more expensive than our local provision”, according to an integrated care board’s review.
NHSE could impose new cancer system on struggling trusts
Trusts failing to meet cancer standards may be encouraged to use a new tool on the federated data platform, HSJ understands.
Exclusive: Trust investigated for manslaughter over three deaths
A trust is being investigated for manslaughter in relation to the death of three patients, HSJ has learned.
Suppliers to help design Streeting’s ‘single patient record’
NHS England is asking suppliers for advice on designing the “single patient record” (SPR), which is seeking to create a “single version of the truth” across the NHS and social care.
Resident doctors ballot for action
Resident doctors in England are set to ballot for renewed industrial action over pay, the British Medical Association has announced.
First ICBs to share CEO and chair
The first integrated care boards have announced they will share the same CEO and chair, an arrangement likely to spread to many others as part of a major restructure.
Ex-council boss becomes ICB chair
An integrated care board has appointed a former council boss as its new chair.
NHSE reorganisation plans delayed
The first draft of a “high-level plan” for merging NHS England into the Department of Health and Social Care has been delayed, officials have acknowledged.
Ex-health secretary attacks ‘drastic’ ICB shake-up
Government and NHS England should “step back” from their NHS “reorganisation” which “came out of nowhere” and risks “taking people’s focus internally”, according to former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
‘Profound disappointment’ as ICBs are allowed to cut safety funding
A leading midwife and chair of government maternity inquiries has cited “significant concern about safety and wellbeing” following a substantial cut to nationally ring-fenced funding.
Hospital criticised for ‘poor’ and ‘defensive’ investigations
A hospital trust has been criticised for its “poor” and “defensive” investigations into three deaths, which a coroner has linked to care by a single surgeon.
Exclusive: NHS managers must undergo ‘cultural intelligence training’ says watchdog
Second tranche of major job cuts revealed by trust
Ex-health minister to chair trust
Government accused of misleading claim on health hubs
Director who helped force out CEO resigns from trust
NHSE budget cuts hit maternity, children and prevention
Which ICBs are heading for merger?
ICB picks provider for £1.8bn contract
3% NHS pay rise proposed
Revealed: Trusts spending millions on B&B rooms
‘Immobile’ patient dies after discharge with no care package
CEO tells staff ‘silence is complicity’ after record sexual misconduct reports
We’re ‘fundamental’ to future ICBs, say pharmacists
Hospital sends GPs 15,000 letters in a single day
CEO leaves ‘recovery support’ trust after eight years
Trusts cut use of private ambulances despite performance woes
‘Unaffordable’ care spending driven by rush to clear hospital beds
ICB points to lack of government support after teenager’s suicide
CEO steps down from system with £305m budget hole
£5m spent on deaths inquiry still years from completion
Paramedics told to listen to podcasts while queuing for A&E handovers
Pharma chief to chair trust
Flagship NHSE tech policy creating ‘patient safety risks’, claim analysts
Mental health sidelined in key waiting list policy
Sacked CEO treated ‘unreasonably’ by NHS agency
Revealed: The systems still reliant on agency staff
Ex-hospital chief confirmed as head of DHSC
Hospital group appoints first CEO
Seven trusts still to set maximum ambulance handover times
Trust orders review into breast cancer services
Revealed: Best and worst trusts to work at, according to bank staff
ICBs told to get tighter grip on GP referrals
Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
Details of new cap on ICB staff spend revealed
Trust’s A&E service jumps from inadequate to good after site move
NHSE director sent into consultant-revolt trust
Mental health A&E programme ‘not far away’
Retired CEO to chair specialist trust
Crucial emergency care system to be scrapped by NHSE within months
Streeting accused of prematurely hailing success of elective scheme