Nick Renaud-Komiya
Nick Renaud-Komiya is a former news reporter at HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: NAO investigates £725m Cambridgeshire contract collapse
The National Audit Office has opened an investigation into the dramatic collapse of a £725m older people’s services contract in Cambridgeshire just eight months into its five year term, HSJ has learned.
NewsGP roadmap may herald move to 'self-assessment', say sources
GPs could face fewer inspections in future under a proposal being considered for the sector’s support package to be launched next week, HSJ has been told.
HSJ LocalMidlands ambulance trusts could share chief executive
WORKFORCE: East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust has been in discussions with NHS Improvement to “strengthen” its leadership arrangements since the struggling provider’s chief executive Sue Noyes stepped down in March, the trust has said.
HSJ LocalCCG’s drug ordering scheme will save ‘£8m a year’
FINANCE: Leaders of a West Midlands clinical commissioning group have estimated that a pilot scheme designed to cut medicines waste will save them up to £8m a year.
News'Ofsted style' CCG ratings framework unveiled
NHS England has unveiled details of the new “Ofsted style” ratings regime for assessing clinical commissioning groups in 2016-17.
NewsMedicines management 'rationalised' to cut pharma influence
NHS England is to create four regional committees to “rationalise” medicines evaluation in an attempt to reduce the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on commissioners’ spending and prescribing decisions.
NewsCCGs ordered to appoint 'conflicts of interest guardian'
Clinical commissioning groups will be required to nominate a “conflicts of interest guardian” as part of a system-wide overhaul of conflicts of interest policy, NHS England has announced.
News'Nearly all' CCGs to take on primary care commissioning by 2018
NHS England has said that it expects “nearly all” clinical commissioning groups to have taken on delegated commissioning for primary care by 2017-18.
NewsGovernment urged to create ‘level playing field’ for mutuals
The government should “level the playing field” for mutual organisations that want to provide acute services alongside trusts and foundation trusts, a Department of Health sponsored study has said.
NewsHunt: Pension increase is 'more bearable' for NHS
The increased pension contributions expected from NHS employers will be a “more bearable burden” than previously thought, Jeremy Hunt has said.
NewsHunt: my biggest mistake
Jeremy Hunt has said that his biggest mistake to date as health secretary was to rely too heavily on inspection to improve poor care before he realised that culture change would have a greater impact.
NewsTransparency league table problems not a 'question of competence'
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has dismissed as “harsh” a suggestion that problems with the recently published “learning from mistakes” league table raised a “question of competence” over the government’s handling of improvement initiatives.
HSJ LocalNational bodies dress down local leaders over A&E and DTOCs
PERFORMANCE: NHS England has chastised Nottinghamshire health leaders for the county’s deteriorating accident and emergency performance and a holdup in submitting a plan for reducing delayed transfers of care.
News'The matter is closed' – Hunt shuts door on the junior doctors' contract
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said there is nothing that will prevent the government from imposing the new junior doctors’ contract, telling HSJ “the matter is closed”.
NewsJunior doctors escalate strike to withdraw emergency cover
A strike by junior doctors next month has been escalated to include the withdrawal of emergency care.
HSJ LocalSpecial measures CCG appoints first GP chair
WORKFORCE: Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed Julian Povey as its chair.
NewsNHS England accused of 'lots of talk but no action' on evolving primary care
The leader of one of the largest GP federations in the country has accused NHS England of doing “nothing” to encourage the development of general practice at scale.
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Mapped: 15 primary care ‘rapid test sites’ get new care models cash
NHS England’s new care models team has provided £500,000 to 15 “rapid test sites” piloting an integrated care model developed by the National Association of Primary Care.
NewsGP federation could create a ‘super partnership’ covering 540,000 patients
One of the country’s largest GP federations is consulting with its member practices on proposals that could see it form a “super partnership”.
HSJ LocalCCGs mull 'ban' on third party drug ordering
Clinical commissioning groups in south Staffordshire are considering a clampdown on community pharmacies ordering prescriptions on behalf of their patients, following a spike in spending on prescription items.