All Five year forward view articles – Page 11
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Comment
Time for the near-invisible Hunt to shape up or ship out
The public are suspicious of sustainability and transformation plans but some positive news shines through anyway
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News
Stevens and PM warned over 'bickering’ about funding
NHS England and Number 10 told by public accounts committee to grow up and work together Repeated ‘crisis driven’ capital raids could have dire consequences, say MPs MPs warn current ’sticking-plaster approach is not sustainable’ Local NHS organisations could be being asked to deliver unrealistic plans, report says ...
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News
'Woefully short' NHS will miss forward view targets, report warns
New research raises fundamental questions about progress on productivity goals required by Five Year Forward View Kingsley Manning says “productivity is not a priority” at STP or trust level No STPs provide analysis of workforce productivity, report finds Lord Carter says progress is being made but “urgent” action is ...
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Comment
Why the forward view's target is in danger of being missed
The NHS must radically rethink its approach to productivity during the Five Year Forward View refresh in March, or key assumptions underpinning the high level plan will unravel
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HSJ Knowledge
How specialist nurses can bring services closer to home
Shrewd service redesign by specialist nurses can lead to greater efficiency for providers and better care for patients
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News
STP and forward view plans 'unrealistic', Francis warns
The NHS is facing an “existential crisis” and measures in the Five Year Forward View and sustainability and transformation plans are “unrealistic”, Sir Robert Francis QC has said.
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News
Francis: Top-down pressure on NHS chiefs 'depressingly familiar'
Mid Staffordshire inquiry chair warns of “increasing disconnect between staff and leaders” Sir Robert Francis describes “depressingly familiar” pressure on NHS chief executives Service “manifestly failing” to keep up with demand, he says Sir Robert warns of “existential crisis” facing the NHS amid financial challenges Sir Robert Francis ...
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News
Stevens: STPs will get 'decision rights' to reorganise trusts and CCGs
Sustainability and transformation plan leaders will be given the right to “recommend” member trusts and commissioners reorganise, where the “veto power or inertia” of individual organisations is holding up change, Simon Stevens has said.
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Comment
Ten ways to speed up the forward view improvements
It’s taking too long to deliver the necessary improvements – here are some thoughts on what we should prioritise
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News
Dalton: Scrap national targets and merge CCGs to speed service change
One of the NHS’s most influential chief executives has said it is taking too long to deliver the Five Year Forward View and has proposed a series of policy changes, including abolishing national access targets, to speed it up.
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Expert Briefing
What's New in Care Models: Prepare for national rollout
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View. By integration reporter David Williams.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Shifting risk to commissioners, and no more sandwiches
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ Partners
From good to great: what the Forward View must do next
The mental health strategy in the Five Year Forward View is promising but needs to go further to be of most help to service users
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Leader
Simon Stevens will not resign – yet
It is likely that Number 10 did not choose to go to war with NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens over NHS funding. But they have had numerous warnings to avoid their “NHS has had more money than it asked for” line and have also continued to privately badmouth Mr ...
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News
CCGs with 'best performing' vanguards to receive extra funding
Vanguard areas could receive £1.50 per head to extend GP access, CCG board papers say NHS England to identify CCGs with “best performing” vanguards to receive funding Clinical commissioning groups with the “best performing” new care models for primary care will receive extra funding to extend GP opening ...
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News
Simon Stevens hits back after apparent criticism from Number 10
NHS England chief executive gave evidence to MPs’ committee following a report in The Times that suggested senior aides to the prime minister were briefing against him Simon Stevens says: “I think it would be stretching it to say the NHS has got more than it asked for” Mr ...
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Comment
2017 is a make or break year for the forward view
Sustainability and transformation plans must be backed up by resources, time and leadership and not become lost in the huge drive to get performance back on track
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ's Best of 2016: awards and leadership lists
Over Christmas and New Year, we are bringing you a round-up of some of HSJ’s highlights from 2016. Today we look at HSJ’s awards programmes and our lists of the most influential or promising people
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HSJ Partners
Safeguarding the public must be priority of healthcare regulation reform
‘Regulation Rethought’ suggests restructuring to achieve core values of patient safety, public trust, and attaining professional standards.
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Comment
A four-point plan to save our STPs
The once in a generation opportunity could be thrown away unless we take action now - here’s what we need to do, says Jon Restell