HSJ Live 17.12.15: Southern Health, allocations, NHS mandate

• Mazars report into Southern Health report published
• NHS England confirms commissioning allocations for 2016-17
• Department of Health publishes NHS’s mandate for next year
• DH announced plan to cut community pharmacy spending
• Poorer councils to get more better care fund cash
• Government confirms new ‘nursing associate’ role
• RCGP says chief inspector of general practice Steve Field has “lost confidence of GPs”

Follow HSJ Live for coverage of Mazars’ Southern Health report, commissioning allocations for 2016-17 and the NHS madate published today