All David Nicholson articles – Page 22
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SHAs to set senior managers' pay at aspirant CFTs
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson’s decision to leave aspirant community foundation trust pay decisions with strategic health authorities could be a barrier to appointments, unions have warned.
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MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail
The Department of Health may have to start justifying its detailed spending plans to the Commons health committee, HSJ has learned.
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Leader
What Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear
House of Commons health committee chair Stephen Dorrell made an electrifying intervention into the NHS reform debate last Thursday.
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Comment
The Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies
The national media’s week was not surprisingly dominated by the start of the Mid Staffs public inquiry.
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Nicholson letter suggests caution on scrapping PCTs
Sir David Nicholson, as chair of the National Quality Board, has written to the health secretary urging caution on several elements of his white paper reforms.
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DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs
The government has stepped up the pace of its NHS reorganisation by bringing forward the abolition of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
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Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson
The government hopes to reveal the value of the GP consortia management allowance in the operating framework in December, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said.
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Commissioning will cost 'less than 5 per cent'
Commissioning costs will fall to “significantly less” than 5 per cent of the total NHS budget for England, the organisation’s chief executive has said.
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MPs express consortia governance fears
Cross-party concerns have been raised about the governance arrangements surrounding GP consortia and the national commissioning board.
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Regional variations in NHS productivity revealed
Dramatic variations in NHS productivity have been revealed by a report commissioned by the Department of Health and obtained exclusively by HSJ.
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Leader
Follow the leaders – or waste billions of pounds every year
Variability is the curse of any large organisation. The most successful corporations spend considerable time and cost in identifying and resolving variations in performance.
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News
Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved
A Department of Health document on the proposed strengthening of the NHS provider market, seen by HSJ, sheds further light on the reforms’ far reaching and sensitive consequences.
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Comment
Public health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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Eight PCTs to share single management
Representatives of eight London primary care trusts have agreed to put their organisations into three clusters under one management framework, saving £48m.
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King’s Fund criticises GPs on dementia diagnosis
GPs are “unable or unwilling” to recognise dementia symptoms, evidence presented to the King’s Fund suggests.
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Leader
Conflicting messages from the top hint at growing resistance
Have the tone of messages from the NHS chief executive and health secretary ever been as different as those emerging from Sir David Nicholson and Andrew Lansley? At last week’s health questions in the House of Commons, ministers got stuck into “pen pushers”. Contrast this language with Sir David’s latest ...
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Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has paved the way for primary care trusts to be merged as a means to make significant savings while implementing the health white paper.
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Nicholson outlines further transition details
GPs must not be “dragooned” into forming particular consortia, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told chiefs in a letter outlining the next stage of the transition.
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White paper leads to shake up in top posts at SHAs
UPDATED: Department of Health announces managers who will lead the transition implementing the white paper.