All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 110
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The re-emergence of the purchaser-provider split
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsThird 2022 covid wave will cause less hospitalisation, predicts Powis
NHS England medical director Sir Steve Powis has told HSJ he expects fewer admissions during the new covid wave than the two previous 2022 surges.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Dispatches from Liverpool
This week the news team bring you the podcast from the NHS Confed/Expo conference in Liverpool.
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NewsGP funding formula set for change, says NHSE director
NHS England’s medical director for primary care has promised reform of GP funding allocations as part of contract renegotiations.
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HSJ LocalNew ICS chief: ‘I’m being managed in a straitjacket’
A new system leader has said she has felt like she is ‘in a straitjacket’ since being in the post, and asked for greater acknowledgement that ‘I might actually know what I’m doing’.
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NewsSpending on regulation has ‘gone too far’, says NHSE chief
Sir David Sloman has said the proportion of the NHS budget being spent on regulation has ‘gone too far’ and needs to be shifted to frontline services.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: 12 great expectations
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.
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NewsNHS England reviewing bed capacity
The NHS has a low bed base, and NHS England is reviewing ‘how we right-size our capacity’ across hospital, community and ‘virtual’ services, Amanda Pritchard has said.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief: Manager ‘bootcamps’ helped eliminate two-year waiters
The chief executive of one of the first teaching trusts in the country to have eliminated two-year waiters for elective care has said there is ‘no magic to it’ and it can be replicated elsewhere.
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NewsNHS England recruiting five new board directors
NHS England is appointing five new non-executive directors to its board, according to an announcement published this week.
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NewsGovernment ‘manager bashing’ to hide Conservative failings on NHS, says Confed chief
Ministers, including the health secretary are bashing managers and exploiting the culture wars to try to ‘explain away’ the crisis in the NHS instead of facing up to the problems 12 years of Conservative-led government have created, NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has told HSJ.
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NewsNew national ‘commercial function’ will be built ‘by the NHS for the NHS’
A new ’central commercial function’ will take command of NHS procurement strategy in an effort to improve how the service buys goods and services, NHS England chief commercial officer Jacqui Rock has told HSJ.
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CommentNeurological care is being rationed unfairly
Georgina Carr speaks about the lack of access and planning in neurological care within the NHS and emphasises the need to build on existing initiatives
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LeaderThe Messenger review is a con
“NHS to face biggest shake-up of leadership in decades”, declared the Financial Times – the paper with perhaps the most stringent editorial standards in the world – of Wednesday’s Messenger review. The Daily Telegraph also hailed it as “a landmark report”, while the BBC described how health and social care ...
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News‘Deeply disappointing’ ICS strategy criticised by council
An integrated care board’s plans to work with the public and patients have been attacked as ‘deeply disappointing’ and ‘box ticking’ by the chair of a local authority oversight committee.
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Expert BriefingThe four trusts with worrying waiting lists
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman
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NewsTrusts may have to close services to make savings, say NHS leaders
The tight financial envelope facing the NHS could force trusts to close services in some areas and ‘streamline’ them to single sites, NHS Providers has warned.
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NewsNHSE extends Capita primary care contract for £94m
NHS England has extended Capita’s primary care support services contract for three more years for £94m.
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NewsGovernment plans ‘single set of management standards’ for the NHS
A government review of health and care leadership has recommended a single set of ‘core leadership and management standards’ for NHS managers.