NHS England and the Government have approved an ICB cluster covering Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and Northamptonshire.
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB has awarded its new contract for non-emergency patient transport services (NEPTS) to Health Transportation Group (HTG).
NHS Frimley ICB and Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) ICB have formed a cluster under joint chair, Dr Priya Singh, and chief executive officer, Dr Nick Broughton.
Tom Abell has been appointed chief executive designate of Essex ICB cluster.
Deep inequalities have been revealed in access to NHS funded care packages with an almost fivefold difference between the ICBs with the highest and lowest rates of CHC eligibility.
NHS Kent and Medway chief executive Paul Bentley is to stand down this autumn.
Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation, says greater realism and openness should be part of a reset in the central-local relationship
ICBs may be given longer to make redundancies due to an impasse over funding, Sir Jim Mackey has revealed.
St Helens Borough Council has said it is no longer considering legal action against NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB over its recovery programme.
A number of ICBs have paused or postponed their redundancy programmes due to a lack of funding.
NHS South East London ICB (SEL ICB) has approved One Bromley Partnership as an integrator to help deliver neighbourhood health services.