All articles by Dave West – Page 28
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LeaderThe funding deal is done, but a crucial few months follow
How far the NHS’s new funding deal will stretch will be shaped by some important decisions in the next five months.
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NewsStevens: Law change will ‘speed us on the journey’ of new plan
Simon Stevens has welcomed the prime minister’s suggestion that the NHS develop proposals for changes to the law, saying legislation could “speed us on the journey” of implementing the long term plan.
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NewsTheresa May: Top NHS leaders ‘waste too much time' on bureaucracy
The prime minister has said “the most outstanding NHS leaders” face “competing incentives”, excessive “negotiations”, “templates that seem to put process ahead of patients”, and waste “too much time on reporting”.
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STPs ‘not the centre of gravity for everything’, says Swindells
Sustainability and transformation partnerships are not “the centre of gravity for every great piece of thinking”, with smaller patches the main focus for developing integrated care, the NHS England director of operations has said.
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Prosecution of hospital chief nurse dropped
The prosecution of a hospital trust chief nurse for false accounting has been dropped.
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NewsFour new 'integrated care systems' named
Four new “integrated care systems” have been named by NHS England and NHS Improvement, as they continue to “finalise the details” of a financial regime for the existing ten ICS.
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NewsNew 'NHS assembly' to 'codesign NHS 10 year plan'
NHS England and NHS Improvement will set up a new “NHS assembly” for national and local leaders to “oversee progress on the Five Year Forward View and help codesign the proposed upcoming NHS 10 year plan”.
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NewsNHS to return to single finance and performance regime under national finance chief
NHS England and NHS Improvement are moving to a single “financial and operational planning and performance” regime under a shared chief finance officer, they are announcing today
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NewsSeven regional teams will be 'locus of decision making'
The seven new joint NHS England and NHS Improvement regional teams will “play a major leadership role in the geographies that they manage”, the latest board paper reveals.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: What will the long term NHS plan do for integrated care?
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. By senior bureau chief Dave West.
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NewsHarding: Centre should support NHS leaders not 'decapitate' them
The health service often “decapitates” senior leaders who take on difficult jobs when it should be supporting and promoting them, the chair of NHS Improvement has said.
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HSJ LocalFormer hospital chief executive charged with fraud dies suddenly
A former hospital trust chief executive charged with fraud has died suddenly.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Fix the NHS London embarrassment urgently
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. By senior bureau chief Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Escaping the invisible asylum
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsSeven regions planned in NHS England and NHS Improvement 'integration'
NHS England and NHS Improvement are creating seven “single integrated regional teams” and will decide by September which national roles and functions will be combined, staff have been told today.
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HSJ LocalSTP leader steps down
The sustainability and transformation partnership leader for the Black Country and west Birmingham is stepping down.
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NewsNHS mandate confirms flagship waiting targets on hold
The government’s instructions for the NHS in 2018-19 confirm that flagship waiting time targets for planned and emergency care remain on hold.
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NewsNHS England looks to do more to tackle health inequalities
NHS England is considering what more it and the NHS should be doing about health inequalities, partly in response to “disturbing” figures showing life expectancy falling in some areas.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: New commissioners – a lead provider
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsFebruary ‘most pressured month ever for NHS’
February was probably the “most pressurised month the NHS has seen in its nearly 70 year history”, Simon Stevens has said, as the service continues to grapple with winter.