NHS integrated care boards halt job cuts in row over £1bn cost

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

Labour's radical reorganisation of the NHS has descended into chaos, a union has said, as a huge programme of job cuts has been halted amid a row over who will foot the 1bn bill.

The NHS's 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) in England were due to make up to 12,500 of their 25,000 staff redundant by the end of the year as a result of health service cost-cutting.