Mimi Launder
@mimilaunder.bsky.social
HSJ correspondent covering all things ICBs/systems and Bucks Ox Berks, Northants, Cov and Warks. Contact me in confidence: mimi.launder@hsj.co.uk
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Anger rising - particularly from maternity services - around cut to ringfences across maternity, children and prevention.
Donna Ockenden said it was "unbelievable" she had to find out from our article that money to improve maternity services was among the slashed pots.
Donna Ockenden said it was "unbelievable" she had to find out from our article that money to improve maternity services was among the slashed pots.
A worrying headline, particularly as prevention of ill health is supposedly a top government priority.
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NHSE budget cuts hit maternity, children and prevention
Maternity, prevention, mental health, and children's services are the national budgets seeing the biggest cuts after government and NHS England decided to slash ringfenced allocations, HSJ analysis re...
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April 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Anger rising - particularly from maternity services - around cut to ringfences across maternity, children and prevention.
Donna Ockenden said it was "unbelievable" she had to find out from our article that money to improve maternity services was among the slashed pots.
Donna Ockenden said it was "unbelievable" she had to find out from our article that money to improve maternity services was among the slashed pots.
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Project teams for the most delayed 40 'new hospitals' are now being stood down
@hsj.co.uk understands NHS trusts must front redundancy costs themselves - which could run into millions nationally
Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
@hsj.co.uk understands NHS trusts must front redundancy costs themselves - which could run into millions nationally
Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
Trusts must cover ‘new hospital’ redundancy costs
Trusts must cover their own redundancy costs caused by delays to projects in the New Hospital Programme, despite hopes they would be covered centrally, HSJ has learned.
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April 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Project teams for the most delayed 40 'new hospitals' are now being stood down
@hsj.co.uk understands NHS trusts must front redundancy costs themselves - which could run into millions nationally
Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
@hsj.co.uk understands NHS trusts must front redundancy costs themselves - which could run into millions nationally
Story: www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
ICB spend will be reduced to an average of around £19 per population head, with some flexibility between ICBs.
The target - which must be hit at a regional level - represents first firm details on how 50% overall cut to ICBs will be implemented.
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The target - which must be hit at a regional level - represents first firm details on how 50% overall cut to ICBs will be implemented.
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April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ICB spend will be reduced to an average of around £19 per population head, with some flexibility between ICBs.
The target - which must be hit at a regional level - represents first firm details on how 50% overall cut to ICBs will be implemented.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
The target - which must be hit at a regional level - represents first firm details on how 50% overall cut to ICBs will be implemented.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
ICYMI. What is the right size and shape for neigbourhood teams? Should they fit into NHS structures? And does any of this even matter?
Our analysis uncovers the debate raging on how to define and structure neighbourhoods.
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Our analysis uncovers the debate raging on how to define and structure neighbourhoods.
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Revealed: ICBs divided on ‘neighbourhood teams’
HSJ analysis reveals a major split across England on the right size and shape for neighbourhood teams, which are a key part of government's reform ambitions.
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April 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI. What is the right size and shape for neigbourhood teams? Should they fit into NHS structures? And does any of this even matter?
Our analysis uncovers the debate raging on how to define and structure neighbourhoods.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
Our analysis uncovers the debate raging on how to define and structure neighbourhoods.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
Internal NHSE slides - from before announcement of steep cuts to ICBs - propose ambitious asks of ICBs as "high performing strategic commissioners"
Just a month later and it already feels woefully out of date.
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Just a month later and it already feels woefully out of date.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Internal NHSE slides - from before announcement of steep cuts to ICBs - propose ambitious asks of ICBs as "high performing strategic commissioners"
Just a month later and it already feels woefully out of date.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
Just a month later and it already feels woefully out of date.
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
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Excl: Row as NHS commissioners refuse to pay for weightloss drugs that a company is "intensively" marketing to patients. (£)
High cost and large numbers of eligible patients mean issue is a "ticking timebomb" for NHS, says one boss
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High cost and large numbers of eligible patients mean issue is a "ticking timebomb" for NHS, says one boss
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March 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Excl: Row as NHS commissioners refuse to pay for weightloss drugs that a company is "intensively" marketing to patients. (£)
High cost and large numbers of eligible patients mean issue is a "ticking timebomb" for NHS, says one boss
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...
High cost and large numbers of eligible patients mean issue is a "ticking timebomb" for NHS, says one boss
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“The speed of change from a position in which a government-endorsed review can bemoan “a permanent loss of [managerial] capability from the NHS” to that same administration taking up arms against a “bloated bureaucracy” would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.”
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Streeting is Lansley reborn
The government's abandonment of its stricture against a top-down reorganisation would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“The speed of change from a position in which a government-endorsed review can bemoan “a permanent loss of [managerial] capability from the NHS” to that same administration taking up arms against a “bloated bureaucracy” would be breathtaking if it was not so tragic.”
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Commentary is catching up with the demise of NHSE this week. Today's HSJ has a bevvy of articles with warnings and analysis of some relevance. For example, This from Bill Morgan on the risks of legislating for the abolition: www.hsj.co.uk/comment/mini... ...
Ministers will learn the pain of legally rewiring the NHS
As Andrew Lansley's policy adviser I learned the pain of legislating to rewire the NHS - the government should avoid it, says Bill Morgan.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Commentary is catching up with the demise of NHSE this week. Today's HSJ has a bevvy of articles with warnings and analysis of some relevance. For example, This from Bill Morgan on the risks of legislating for the abolition: www.hsj.co.uk/comment/mini... ...
Former Labour health secretary and ICB chair Patricia Hewitt criticises "brutal" cuts to central NHSE bodies paired with "hugely increased management of the centre". Intvw with @jamesillman.bsky.social.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Former Labour health secretary and ICB chair Patricia Hewitt criticises "brutal" cuts to central NHSE bodies paired with "hugely increased management of the centre". Intvw with @jamesillman.bsky.social.
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The Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
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March 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
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Full list of NHSE "transition" team here, following a swathe of resignations:
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March 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Full list of NHSE "transition" team here, following a swathe of resignations:
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...
Massive couple of days in the NHS.
NHSE to be abolished. Wes Streeting says in email to staff that the merger is a reflection of a "fragmented system holding us back".
Just yesterday ICBs were told to cut their running costs in half by December.
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NHSE to be abolished. Wes Streeting says in email to staff that the merger is a reflection of a "fragmented system holding us back".
Just yesterday ICBs were told to cut their running costs in half by December.
t.co/ZlhLi04fKw
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Massive couple of days in the NHS.
NHSE to be abolished. Wes Streeting says in email to staff that the merger is a reflection of a "fragmented system holding us back".
Just yesterday ICBs were told to cut their running costs in half by December.
t.co/ZlhLi04fKw
NHSE to be abolished. Wes Streeting says in email to staff that the merger is a reflection of a "fragmented system holding us back".
Just yesterday ICBs were told to cut their running costs in half by December.
t.co/ZlhLi04fKw