Exclusive: CCGs angry over property company shortfall charges
Clinical commissioners have raised concern about a “top slice” to their budgets to fund a shortfall in the earnings of the new national NHS property company.
Exclusive: CCGs angry over property company shortfall charges
Clinical commissioners have raised concern about a “top slice” to their budgets to fund a shortfall in the earnings of the new national NHS property company.
CCG Barometer: Confident commissioners voice gripes with new system
Clinical commissioning group leaders’ confidence in delivering on their responsibilities has increased, but they are grappling with significant confusion in the reformed NHS system.
Revealed: NHS holds 'risk summits' over A&E concern
Pressures in accident and emergency have been the largest single trigger for “risk summit” meetings which are being called to address quality, safety and performance concerns under the new NHS system, HSJ research reveals.
Exclusive: Mass board resignations at ex-NHS social enterprise
The chair and other non-executive directors of a social enterprise providing NHS community services have resigned en masse following a row over executive pay, HSJ has learned.
Forty-two trusts won't submit foundation applications by April 2014
Forty-two of the 101 NHS providers yet to become foundation trusts will either not do so in their present form, or will breach the current government’s previous authorisation deadline of April 2014.
Exclusive: CCGs doubt CSUs' ability to innovate
Many clinical commissioning groups doubt whether their support service providers can work in an innovative way, or are well led, a survey has found.
Hunt announces GP out-of-hours responsibility plans
GPs should be ultimately responsible for out-of-hours care - even if they don’t personally provide it, the health secretary has said.
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Foundation trusts 'boost UK wealth'
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A&E performance tracker: Some improvement but new trusts miss target
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New NICE chair prioritises multiple conditions, care and money
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RCGP: GP funding 'stretched to limits'
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Patient-centred care training urged
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Minister 'nervous' about criminal sanctions on individuals
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Most leaders would leave if groups' budgets were given to councils, survey finds
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NHS England gives green light on £70m innovation networks project
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Information, patient involvement and service change are weak areas, say CCG leaders
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Nursing leaders say they will act in response to Francis
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National clinical advisers question case for new North Tees hospital
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North Staffs calls in police to investigate 'malicious campaign'
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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals plans 'progress towards FT'
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Patient safety chief admits NHS 111 likely to have harmed patients
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David Nicholson to retire by March 2014
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Safety not guaranteed at 18 A&E depts amid 'toxic overcrowding'
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Why did Nicholson decide to step down?
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Retirement announcement follows months of scrutiny and criticism
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Healthcare leaders fear 'unintended consequences' of hasty Francis legislation
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Hunt backs chief inspector of GPs plan
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Who could succeed Sir David as NHS England chief executive?
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Nicholson retirement: What next for NHS England?
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Labour highlights hospital capacity fall
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CCGs defy Hunt by planning to increase competition for out-of-hours GP care
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Patients able to complain to Monitor about anti-competitive behaviour
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Leeds hospitals chief executive leaving post
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Clinical commissioners say GPs under pressure as A&E row escalates
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Kelsey: Prescriptions and observations IT are clinicians' top priorities
A&E tracker
A&E performance tracker to 12 May: England's hospitals miss waiting target
HSJ is tracking the performance of hopsitals in England every week
CCG tenders integrated older people's service worth up to £1bn
FINANCE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has outlined plans to put up to £1bn worth of contracts out to tender to potential bidders.
Safety not guaranteed at 18 A&E depts amid 'toxic overcrowding'
PERFORMANCE: Patient safety at 18 accident and emergency departments in the West Midlands cannot be guaranteed according to a joint letter signed by leading clinicians from across the region.
