Dave West

The government is taking a raft of new powers over the NHS - including one that will enable them to direct integrated care boards on virtually any of their functions - in its new Health Bill, published on Thursday.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West

Integrated care boards are struggling to protect funds to deliver neighbourhood health and other 10-Year Health Plan proposals this year - with one cluster forced to withdraw a £33m fund days after launching it.

A trust chief executive who was cleared of misconduct after being wrongly suspend by her chair has resigned.

A recently retired acute trust chief executive is returning to a national role just months after ending a 40-year career in the NHS.

NHS England has approved the first six "advanced foundation trusts", with the promise of "greater operational autonomy" and more financial freedom from 1 June.

Dozens of primary care networks in some areas may need to be reorganised to take on neighbourhood contracts, because they do not cover a coherent geographic area.

Scrapping the legal guarantee that a nurse sits on every foundation trust board is a "brazen attack on patient safety", the Royal College of Nursing has warned.

A senor retail sector executive has been appointed the first chair of NHS Online, the digital only trust which was formally launched today.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West