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ICB savings risk shifting care costs to councils, think-tank warns

By Lee Peart 19 March 2026

An ICB’s £277m savings programme for 2025/26 risks shifting care costs to local councils and residents, the Nuffield Trust has warned.

INTEGRATED CARE

Hospices face 'funding cliff-edge', MPs warn

By Lee Peart 18 March 2026

Hospices face a ‘funding cliff-edge’ in April with the Government and NHS England failing to respond with the urgency the critical situation demands, MPs have warned.

INTEGRATED CARE

ICBs decided to combine children's and adult's A&E services

By Lee Peart 17 March 2026

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICBs have decided to combine children’s and adult’s A&E services at Southport Hospital.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Government sets out 'zero tolerance' approach to SEND failings

By Lee Peart 16 March 2026

A letter setting out the Government’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to SEND failings has been sent by education secretary Bridget Phillipson to local authorities and ICBs.

INTEGRATED CARE

Trust wins community health services contract

By Lee Peart 11 March 2026

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB has awarded the contract for community health services in West Lancashire to NHS Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL).

INTEGRATED CARE

NHS England confirms commissioning transfer delay to ICBs

By Lee Peart 09 March 2026

NHS England has confirmed a one-year delay in the transfer of some commissioning functions to ICBs to April 2027.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

BREAKING NEWS: Streeting agrees to 'simple asks' from Baroness Casey

By Lee Peart 05 March 2026

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has agreed to ‘simple asks’ on dementia, social care and motor neurone disease (MND) from Baroness Louise Casey.

SOCIAL CARE

BREAKING NEWS: Baroness Casey makes five 'simple asks' of Streeting

By Lee Peart 05 March 2026

Baroness Louise Casey has revealed she has written to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting with five ‘simple asks’ ahead of her commission’s first report on social care.

INTEGRATED CARE

Hospital to offer GP services

By Lee Peart 05 March 2026

GP services are to be offered at Ellen Badger Hospital in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.

COMMUNITY

Trust restates commitment to urgent treatment centres

By Lee Peart 04 March 2026

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has restated its commitment to the future of Keswick and Penrith urgent treatment centres following ongoing temporary closures.