{"id":348151,"date":"2025-08-16T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:16:11","slug":"kent-and-medway-icb-told-to-halve-running-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348151\/","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":348152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348151","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036277036518310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}