Media stories about Integrated Care Systems (ICS)
Regional leaders plan hospital contract shake-up
Regional health leaders are drawing up plans to abandon payment by results based on national tariffs and move to a … Read more
NHS shake-up: £300m deficit if nothing done to transform healthcare
The radical plan aims to prevent ‘duplication’ of services at different hospitals, reduce outpatient appointments by 15 per cent and … Read more
STPs risk ‘starving services of resources’
Ministers have been urged to sort out the ‘mess’ of the NHS STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) after BMA analysis … Read more
A&E, cancer and maternity units to close in major NHS overhaul
Thousands of hospital beds are set to disappear, pregnant women will face long trips to give birth and a string … Read more
STPs will be published by Christmas, MPs told
MPs have been assured that all 44 STPs (sustainability and transformation plans), will be published by Christmas, according to health … Read more
Investment and support for general practice must be the focus of local STPs
The RCGP has responded to the King’s Fund report on Sustainability and Transformation Plans, published today. Professor Maureen Baker, RCGP … Read more
STPs ‘far from perfect’ but NHS has no plan B, warns think tank
Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have failed to involve frontline clinicians or patients and have been mired in confusion, a … Read more
Patients and staff shut out of NHS transformation plans, says thinktank
NHS plans that could lead to hospital and A&E closures have been kept secret from the public and barely involved … Read more