{"id":70709,"date":"2025-08-16T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70709\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:19:23","slug":"kent-and-medway-icb-told-to-halve-running-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70709\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent and Medway ICB told to halve running costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report states the current operating costs for the ICB is \u00a373.5m, which is 1.5% of its total budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is used to commission GPs, children&#8217;s services including those with complex needs, mental health services, maternity and neonatal services and pharmacy, optometry and dentistry services, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The board is also reviewing services it should no longer provide and exploring ways to improve efficiency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes creating a shared services list across organisations and reducing staffing by 49%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report states the current operating costs for the ICB is \u00a373.5m, which is 1.5% of its total&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-70709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}