Mimi Launder
mimilaunder.bsky.social
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
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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April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Read my briefing off the back of this analysis here: www.hsj.co.uk/expert-brief...
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Just a month later and it already feels woefully out of date.

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March 26, 2025 at 1:44 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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March 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Full list of NHSE "transition" team here, following a swathe of resignations:

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March 17, 2025 at 4:53 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.

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March 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM