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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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National STP

NHS changes made under the radar

Two weeks ago The Lowdown warned of plans being hatched by NHS England and local “Integrated Care Systems” (ICSs) and Clinical Commissioning … Read more

Categories CCGs, Integrated care, Long-term plan, National STP Tags CCGs, digital health, GPs, integrated care system, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England, primary care

Third large CCG merger confirmed in south east

NHS England and NHS Improvement have given the OK to merge to twenty clinical commissioning groups, according to HSJ. The … Read more

Categories Long-term plan, Integrated care, National STP Tags bureaucracy, CCG mergers, CCGs, commissioning, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England

The how, the what and the why of the long-term plan for CCGs

The NHS long-term plan set out an ambitious path towards an integrated NHS that is sustainable, efficient and effective, with … Read more

Categories Long-term plan, Integrated care, National STP Tags CCGs, integrated care, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England, primary care

GP workforce ‘deterioration’ will hinder plan to move hospital care into practices

The ‘ongoing deterioration’ of the GP workforce will seriously hinder the Government’s plan to move care out of hospitals and … Read more

Categories National STP, STPs Tags CCGs, doctors, GPs, National STP, NHS reform

Little evidence that integrated care initiatives deliver

A report produced by the Nuffield Trust and Age UK concludes that there are very few signs that integrated and … Read more

Categories ACO, Integrated care, Long-term plan, National STP Tags Academic reports, Accountable Care Systems, ACO, Elderly care, ICS, integrated care, integrated care system, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform

Plans for Dudley’s integrated care trust delayed by a year

The creation of the NHS’ first integrated care trust has been delayed until 2020, due to the complexity of the … Read more

Categories National STP, STPs Tags CCGs, commissioning, community care, GPs, ICS, integrated care system, long-term plan, new care models, primary care, STP 16

All of England to become ICS by 2021

The whole of England is to be covered by integrated care systems in just over two years, the NHS long-term … Read more

Categories NHS spending, ACO, National STP Tags community health, hospitals, ICS, integrated care system, LEAD STORY, long-term plan, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform, primary care

Revealed: Vital STP projects face doubt after £1bn fund snub

An £84m urgent and emergency care transformation in Middlesbrough, system wide cancer reconfiguration in South Yorkshire, and a large elective … Read more

Categories National STP Tags Department of Health, LEAD STORY, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform, STP 14, STP 17, STP 18, STP 21, STP 22, STP 27, STP 43, STP 6, STP 9, underfunding

King’s Fund chief to chair STP

Outgoing King’s Fund chief executive Sir Chris Ham has been appointed as independent chair of a sustainability and transformation partnership … Read more

Categories National STP Tags STP 18

NHS long-term plan delayed until January

There is only an “outside chance” the overdue NHS long-term plan will be published this year, HSJ understands. The plan – commissioned by … Read more

Categories National STP Tags Department of Health, National STP, NHS England, NHS reform
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE