Dave West
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The Integrator: When ‘no strategy’ is best
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. → Read More
Nine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in "accelerating" the development of the approach across the service. → Read More
‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no 'schism' between them and integrated care systems. → Read More
£100m redundancy budget set for NHS England, HEE and NHSD
NHS England is set to spend up to £100m on voluntary redundancies and associated costs, as part of its restructure and merger with NHS Digital and Health Education England, the next phase of which is being announced today. → Read More
Teaching trust names medic as new chief executive
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has named Phil Wood as its new chief executive. → Read More
Ten senior health and council leaders drafted in to boost Hewitt ICS review
Leaders from trusts, integrated care systems and local authorities are to take charge of five workstreams within Patricia Hewitt's review of ICS autonomy and accountability. → Read More
Patients ‘warehoused’ and ‘lost in the system’ amid rush to discharge
More and more older people are being "warehoused" in inappropriate care beds, condemned unnecessarily to long-term care, and "lost" to health and care services, due to the rush to discharge from full hospitals and a lack of community rehab services, leaders have warned. → Read More
NHS has too few managers but too many admin staff, Hewitt suggests
International comparisons suggest the NHS has too few managers but too many administrative staff, former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has claimed. → Read More
Exclusive: Some ICSs need ‘an awful lot of central control', says Hewitt
Some integrated care systems still require "an awful lot of control" from the centre, Patricia Hewitt has told HSJ, tempering any expectations that her government-commissioned review will bring about a wholesale roll-back of national performance management. → Read More
Exclusive: Emergency patients staying an extra day in ‘congested’ hospitals
Patients are spending an extra day in hospital on average when admitted as an emergency compared to before covid, consuming millions of additional 'bed days', HSJ analysis has found. → Read More
CQC could be given ‘enhanced’ role following Hewitt review
The government's rapid review of integrated care systems will look to "enhance" the role of the Care Quality Commission in regulating them, and will issue its first recommendations in 10 days. → Read More
Transfer of multi-billion pound fund to ICSs delayed until 2024
NHS England is set to delay delegating commissioning budgets worth billions of pounds to integrated care systems until 2024 amid concerns about financial risk and destabilising services, HSJ understands. → Read More
Revealed: Ambulance waits quadruple in handover hotspots
Ambulance waiting times for stroke and suspected heart attacks have quadrupled in four parts of England since before covid-19 - whereas others have only grown by half - underlining the severe impact of long accident and emergency handovers. → Read More
NHSE names new emergency care chief and deputy COO
NHS England has hired a hospital chief executive as its new national director of urgent and emergency care and deputy chief operating officer. → Read More
Barclay: DHSC and NHSE must ‘work closely’ to tackle worst performers
Steve Barclay will today "emphasise the importance of close working between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England" in trying to tackle waiting times in areas which are lagging. → Read More
Trust CEO appointed as new NHS Providers chief
The chief executive of one of the largest hospital trusts has been appointed to lead NHS Providers. → Read More
New NHSE director to oversee 'challenged' trusts
NHS England has hired a senior director from Health Education England to lead its work with particularly struggling trusts and systems. → Read More
New NHSE director to oversee struggling trusts
NHS England has hired a senior director from Health Education England to lead its work with particularly struggling trusts and systems. → Read More
Majority of providers in some ICSs to be performance managed by NHSE
Some integrated care boards will not hold the lead performance management role for a majority of their member trusts, under the centre's new rules for regulating the service. → Read More
‘Two week GP appointment’ policy delayed, despite Coffey pledge
NHS England has delayed a measure encouraging GP practices to see patients within two weeks - in contrast to ministers' announcement last week trumpeting a new 'expectation' they would do so for all patients. → Read More