Welcome to the Blogs section of our website. Here you can find regular updates from members of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS). Keep checking back for new additions each month.
For the latest updates from the system, please visit our news and releases page.
Executive Medical Director Blog: October 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
Welcome to October’s blog. This month, I wanted to dive into the data and share updates on our performance in three key areas: primary care, elective care, and urgent and emergency care. Primary care General practice has significantly increase…
Learn moreExecutive Medical Director Blog: September 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
Welcome to my belated September blog. This month I focus on leadership and recent changes at the ICB and in the system, the ICB restructure, primary care collective action and clinical transformation. Leadership Updates We have some exciting c…
Learn moreExecutive Medical Director Blog: July 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
Welcome to my July blog. You may have noticed but my regular updates have taken a little break over the last few months – that was because of the pre-election rules. So, it’s a bumper issue this time to capture all that I had wanted to cover in May …
Learn moreExecutive Director of Nursing Blog: April 2024 – Tricia D’Orsi
I wanted to start by saying how pleased I was to see so many nominations from our system for NHS England’s East of England Perinatal Celebratory Event which was held in March. There were over 100 nominations across the eastern region in categories r…
Learn moreExecutive Medical Director Blog: April 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
As we start the financial year, we have spent a lot of time and energy focusing on our short-term financial challenges. This is clearly important, as our budget is limited and we need to do the best and most we possibly can for our population with w…
Learn moreExecutive Director of Nursing Blog: March 2024 – Tricia D’Orsi
As many of you will be aware, our system moved to a new ambulance offload process in November 2023 in response to significant handover delays and risk to patients waiting in the community for emergency care if an ambulance was unable to reach them i…
Learn moreExecutive Medical Director Blog: March 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
Spring is finally here – the sun is shining and the daffodils are up and in bloom. This month, we received formal notification that Norfolk and Waveney has been removed from “special measures” (national oversight framework 4) which is a huge caus…
Learn moreExecutive Director of Nursing Blog: February 2024 – Tricia D’Orsi
I’m sure many of you will have heard the King’s recent announcement that he has been diagnosed with cancer. As a result, the NHS has seen a huge rise in people seeking information about the condition and latest figures reveal that, in the 24 hours f…
Learn moreExecutive Medical Director Blog: February 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
It would be remiss of me not to start my blog today without recognising the recent news of another round of Junior Doctor industrial action, from 24 to 28 February. This comes on top of a couple of incredibly challenging weeks for our emergency serv…
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