New fines for leaving patients waiting more than a year
NHS providers and commissioners will both face fines for each patient waiting more than a year for treatment, according to new plans.
STP moves towards shared control total
Leaders across a sustainability and transformation partnership are drafting a new agreement that could lead to the organisations in the STP sharing a control total.
STP region aims for huge savings across elective care
Commissioning leaders are aiming to save £50m a year by standardising policies in elective care across their sustainability and transformation partnership footprint.
Exclusive: Mergers involving 11 CCGs get green light
NHS England has approved unprecedented changes to clinical commissioning groups across the country, consolidating 11 CCGs into four, HSJ can reveal.
Exclusive: City CCGs move closer to merger
Three clinical commissioning groups will consult with their members over a merger to create one of the country’s biggest CCGs, it has emerged today.
Trust gets £10m boost from PFI refinancing deal
A large acute trust in Yorkshire improved its financial outturn by £10m last year after a renegotiation of its PFI contract.
GP quality – North: Greater Manchester and surrounds lags rest of region
Exclusive analysis of Care Quality Commissioning ratings of GP surgeries shows that the majority of the worst performing areas for primary care are within a 40 mile radius of Manchester.
City CCGs to appoint single chief and joint board
Three clinical commissioning groups have agreed to appoint a single chief executive and set up a joint board, HSJ can reveal.
CCGs to join up for STP-wide commissioning
All the clinical commissioning groups across a sustainability and transformation plan footprint have signed up to form a commissioning committee covering the whole patch.
Big STP plots 'accountable care organisations' across 2.5m patch
New “accountable care organisations” will strengthen commissioning services in West Yorkshire and Harrogate, according to its published sustainability and transformation plan.
City CCGs working towards 'shared leadership' and ACO
Health leaders in Leeds are exploring new “shared leadership and governance” arrangements, but have stopped short of proposing a full merger.
Seven councils reject STP submissions
Local authorities in London and Yorkshire have said they cannot sign up to their areas’ sustainability and transformation plans due to concerns about hospital reconfiguration and transparency.
IT crash trust had tech problems in pathology service since March
IT problems at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust’s blood sciences and pathology department have occurred for months after the trust installed new systems in March, HSJ has learned.
Hospital IT crash won't be resolved until end of the week
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has said it has now successfully cleared a backlog of thousands of pathology tests after a major IT fault that is now in its second week.
IT failure leaves teaching hospital with 10,000 tests backlog
One of the country’s largest teaching hospitals faces a backlog of 10,000 delayed pathology tests after a major IT system failure, it has emerged.
GPs told to cancel blood tests after teaching trust's IT failure
All routine blood tests by GPs in Leeds were cancelled on Wednesday and Thursday this week as a major IT system fault at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust entered its seventh day.
HSJ Awards 2016 shortlist unveiled
We have today revealed the shortlist for the 2016 HSJ Awards.
Rob Webster to lead STP footprint
Departing NHS Confederation chief executive Rob Webster is to lead the West Yorkshire sustainability and transformation plan.
Exclusive: GP groups cover most of England but ‘lack ambition and priorities’
Four fifths of clinical commissioning groups have at least one large scale GP provider group in their area, according to information collected by HSJ.
Mental health chief executive steps down
Chris Butler will step down as chief executive of Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust at the end of December, after 10 years in the post.