NHS England’s failure to kill the four-hour target - a podcast by HSJ

NHS England’s protracted bid to scrap the four-hour A&E target has finally been shelved by ministers, as we exclusively revealed last week.

Now the dust has settled, we unpick what happened, why it matters and whether there is still hope for reform in the future.

Also - why ICSs will have to wait until 2024 to receive commissioning budgets worth billions of pounds, amid concerns about financial risk.

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