It’s been a turbulent month in the NHS. If you have somehow escaped the madness, NHS England has been abolished, with its functions to be absorbed into the DHSC.
Integrated care boards, once seen as the future of the NHS, have had their workforces shredded – and some commentators, including many at my own publication HSJ, are predicting their imminent demise – or at least transformation into merged super-ICBs, NHS Regions, Lead Provider Models, or something we haven’t seen yet.
So, we’ve seen a fair amount of panic, chaos and questions, many of which remain unanswerable: about budgets; accountability; structure; staffing arrangements and where this leaves the stated aims of the NHS. We still have the 10-year plan to come in late spring, and hopefully that will at least begin to answer some of these.
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