The Latest Breaking News from ICBs

Gaps in NHS end-of-life care ‘denying ill children chance to die at home’

Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lottery

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1

Woman denied permanent birth control on NHS wins case with ombudsman

Leah Spasova from Oxfordshire fought for 10 years to obtain tubal ligation procedure, while men could get vasectomies

The Guardian - UK · May 1

Labour’s NHS job cuts plan in chaos amid row over £1bn costs

Integrated care boards in England cannot afford severance payments, leaving restructuring plan in chaos, union says

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2025

30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS

Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2025

MPs raise concerns over ‘bold’ plans to abolish NHS England

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it was not a decision he had taken ‘lightly’.

Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025

Hospices face a ‘critical’ £47m shortfall in funding, experts warn

Freedom of Information requests show that funding is failing to keep up with the spiralling costs of end-of-life care.

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023