All articles by Dave West – Page 30
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: STPs, busy being born or busy dying?
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsStevens: Capped expenditure areas must 'get on with' savings
The NHS England chief executive has said organisations in the capped expenditure process “need to get on with” making planned savings, with the current search for further “hard choices” completed in most of them.
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NewsStevens: NHS could create new national 'council' to share decision making
The NHS England chief executive wants to create a standing group of national and local health leaders so “the national bodies and frontline NHS leaders… can better connect and align”.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury must provide transformation funding, insists Simon Stevens
The government will have to provide nearly all the capital funding for service transformation in the next year or two because raising it from land sales and the private sector will take several years, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsVanguard funding 'should not be stopped next year'
Funding for new care model vanguards should not be stopped next March as planned, because the project needs more time to provide models for other areas to use, NHS Providers has said.
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Second NHS ‘devolution’ deal aims for 2018 launch
Work is underway on formal delegation arrangements for the second major NHS “devolution” project, with the aim of going live next April.
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NewsNHS England and NHS Improvement reveal joint regional restructure
NHS England and NHS Improvement have appointed two joint regional directors, in order to “test a more integrated approach” between the two organisations.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: 'Difficult choices' run out of steam
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsKeogh: Chief execs need support not ‘frightening and suppressive’ behaviour
The NHS risks “a drift into…risk aversion and blame”, Sir Bruce Keogh has said, criticising the “terrible statistic that the life expectancy of a chief executive in our NHS is only two and a half years”.
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NewsCommissioners made £900m underspend to cover provider deficit
NHS commissioners recorded a net underspend of £902m at the end of 2016-17, covering off a provider sector deficit of £791m.
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NewsMajor new NHS devolution deal revealed
A health and social care devolution style deal is being put in place in Surrey, it has been announced – the second after Greater Manchester.
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NewsCQC: Social care £2bn not just for cutting hospital delays
Additional government funding for social care this Parliament is “there for social care in its entirety”, not only preventing delays in hospitals, the sector’s chief inspector has said.
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NewsExclusive: New national savings drive will 'challenge the values' of NHS leaders
Closing wards and services, blocking choice of private providers, systematically extending waiting times, and stopping some treatments are all being considered under a national programme targeted at the health economies with the highest overspends.
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Expert BriefingBeware stumbling into another 'Tory top-down reorganisation of the NHS'
In an ominous echo of 2010, the Conservative party’s 2017 election manifesto includes a discreet mention which could snowball into a disruptive reorganisation of the NHS.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief quits to run major health research centre
An acute hospital trust chief executive is leaving her post to become chief operating officer of a major health research institute.
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NewsManifesto: Tories open to legislation to curb internal market
The Conservative manifesto says the party is open to introducing health legislation if the NHS’s leaders ask for it to help deliver the Forward View, for example to create new integrated care models.
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NewsTories unveil social care funding reform plans
The Conservatives have revealed their plan for reforming funding of long-term social care, by adjusting means testing and scrapping a proposed cap on all individuals’ lifetime costs.
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NewsHome secretary: NHS trusts must upgrade IT to protect from cyber attack
The home secretary has said NHS trusts should “make sure they do upgrade” their IT systems in response to the huge cyberattack which hit the NHS yesterday.
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CommentSnap election means the big choices are ducked, for now
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Winning the GP wild west
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.