All Commissioning articles – Page 4
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CommentMaking virtue part of everyone’s job
A new unit will professionalise virtue-signalling and oversee a national humility strategy, reports Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalCouncils always ‘leader of place’, says top health system
A prominent integrated care board has set out various options for how to structure its local leadership teams – but stressed councils will be the leaders of ‘place’.
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CommentIs the CQC giving the NHS an easy ride?
The purpose of Care Quality Commission ratings has been a hotly contested question since the creation of the four category classifications in the last decade. With only a single trust rated inadequate, despite pandemic pressures, is the regulator now letting the service off the hook?
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NewsNHSE must allow councillors to sit on integrated care boards, says government
The government has said NHS England must change draft guidance to allow councillors to be members of NHS integrated care boards, but it remains unclear if they will be permitted to chair the new organisations.
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NewsICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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CommentCare of those with personality disorders has been privatised
A new report on out of area placements for people with a personality disorder diagnosis reveals worrying findings, writes Keir Harding
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NewsFinal ICS confirms chief executive
All 42 integrated care systems have now named their chief executive designate — or declared that they have failed to appoint.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay's dramatic return
Independent consultant to lead far-reaching leadership and IT review
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NewsICS go-live date could be delayed by six months, leak reveals
The transfer from clinical commissioning groups to integrated care systems may be delayed by up to six months, according to NHS England scenario planning seen by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingICSs could be forced to pool their budgets with councils
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: social care reform proves challenging
The NHS proposals of the Scottish government has angered GPs and left managing bodies of community healthcare services grumbling, writes Henry Anderson
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CommentPritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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NewsICSs ‘may cease to exist’ after setting up strong provider groups
Integrated care systems may develop strong provider groups and afterwards choose for their role become ‘tiny’ or ‘cease to exist’, it has been suggested.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay tops the Blithering 20 again
The annual review of people who really matter at NHS Blithering, introduced by Martin Plackard, head of influencer communications
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: NHSE’s journey from cuddly to confrontation with GPs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News‘Challenged’ primary care ‘must not’ deliver urgent teen jabs, says NHSE
GPs should only give 12 to 15 years olds the covid vaccine as a last resort,according to NHS England, under new plans to expand capacity across the age group while protecting the fragile primary care sector.
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NewsNHS England boss stepping down
NHS England’s chair is standing down early next year, meaning government will appoint his replacement ahead of the organisation’s formal merger with NHS Improvement.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Mind the gap – again
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentThe NHS needs more leaders who ‘think in systems’
For all the welcome aspects of the Health and Care Bill, it is culture, not structure, that ultimately determines the quality of health system integration, writes Dr Parth Patel
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The Saj spotlights ‘disparities’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.