{"id":470282,"date":"2026-06-01T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/470282\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:03:08","slug":"northamptonshire-nhs-community-trust-gains-greater-local-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/470282\/","title":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire NHS community trust gains greater local powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust provides more than 240 services across the county, working from community hospitals, specialist clinics and care homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health care it provides ranges from childbirth to end-of-life care, as well as mental health services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, it had to temporarily remove six palliative care beds from use for end-of-life patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y9zgle215o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to an &#8220;unexpected shortfall in consultant cover&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reform is part of the government&#8217;s 10-year health plan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy5wpe9r1d6o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designed to treat more people closer to home.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Advanced foundation trusts also have the opportunity to be designated as eligible to hold an integrated health organisation (IHO) contract to oversee the health budget for a defined local population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Northamptonshire trust is one of two undergoing an initial assessment for an IHO and is likely to find out whether it is successful later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust provides more than 240 services across the county, working from community hospitals, specialist clinics and care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-470282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}