Urgent plan needed to end NHS staff shortages now
Unions and other groups representing most of the NHS’s 1.4 million-strong workforce, including the Royal College of Nursing, British Medical … Read more
Long-term plan
Fantasy and denial in under-funded NHS
Following a disastrous pandemic that has drastically cut back the capacity of NHS acute hospitals and piled added pressures and … Read more
Dudley ICS contract shelved after NHS England intervention
Dudley Clinical Commissioning group has been forced by NHS England to stop work on a landmark integrated care provider contract, … Read more
The dying days of local NHS accountability
Believe it or not, we are in the last days of relative transparency and local accountability in England’s NHS. It … Read more
Bleak prospects for troubled ICSs
Even before they gain any statutory powers some Integrated Care Systems are facing major problems, while others are concealing them … Read more
White Paper: power grab, sea change or cementing in the status quo?
Some of the headlines and reports on the leaked draft White Paper outlining plans for a new top-down reorganisation of the NHS … Read more
Stevens targets April 2022 for NHS reorganisation
Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England, has said that integrated care systems will be put on a statutory footing by … Read more
Closed eyes to Covid reality – Leicester health chiefs push through flawed plan
Another one of the six actual planned new hospitals from Boris Johnson’s “fake forty” new hospitals promised last summer seems set to … Read more
Still no real signs of life in “integrated care systems”
The path towards NHS England’s vision of “integration” of local health care systems is proving a long and rocky one. … Read more
Who’s cashing in on ICSs?
While there is little sign of any activity in the public domain, the establishment of Integrated Care Systems is likely … Read more