All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 17
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News
Agency profits growing due to ‘acute shortage of staff’
Two companies supplying staff to the NHS saw large growth in income and profits last year, annual accounts reveal.
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News
Trusts’ ‘incorrect forecasts’ blamed by DHSC for capital overspend
Government documents seen by HSJ cite “incorrect cost forecasts” – as well as inflation and delivery delays – for overspending on the capital budget for upgrading hospitals.
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Seven trusts relegated to NHSE’s poorest performers group
Seven trusts have been added to NHS England’s list of providers with the worst elective and cancer problems, putting the number of organisations in the ‘tier 1’ group back into double figures – and five leaving it, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
We should not tolerate the NHS's suboptimal cardiovascular care
Dr Matt Kearney challenges the longstanding NHS tolerance of suboptimal care that drives cardiovascular disease – and the potential use of routine GP data that would prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes in three years.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: In search of bold policy
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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HSJ Partners
New Pilot to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities launches in Dorset
NHS England InHIP programme, Dorset Integrated Care System Cancer Programme, NHS Dorset, Wessex AHSN, and Wessex Cancer Alliance partner with C the Signs to take an innovative approach to improve cancer outcomes and tackle inequalities across Dorset
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HSJ intelligence congress to offer unique insight into national data strategy
NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer Ming Tang is due to give the keynote address at HSJ’s new Health and Care Intelligence Congress on 6 December.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: The trusts slipping the most on PM’s pledge
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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NHS wastes ‘equivalent of 100,000 meals a day’
NHS England is throwing away the equivalent of 100,000 meals every day, its net zero food lead has said.
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Exclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.
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Strikes now endangering heart and cancer patients, NHSE warns BMA
The impact of successive doctors’ strikes is now ‘causing significant disruption and risk to patients’, including to those needing urgent heart and cancer treatment, NHS England leaders have told the BMA in their strongest warnings yet.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The new president’s in tray
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence
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News
NHS can’t prepare for pandemic surge due to lack of staff, NHSE warns
The NHS has too few staff to prepare for a pandemic surge, while its ageing buildings and social care’s weak ‘resilience and capacity’ would also undermine its response, NHS England has warned.
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Trusts and ICBs asked to give ‘honest’ assessment of their ‘improvement culture’
Trust leaders have been asked to “self-assess” the quality of their “improvement culture” as part of an initiative launched by NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard in the spring.
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Expert Briefing
A big revenue hole needs filling
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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Comment
As a doctor I don’t believe regulation of managers should be a priority
David Oliver expresses his five big doubts on the statutory regulation that is in place for NHS managers and examines the complex realities of accountability and performance in healthcare leadership
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News
NHSE names two new directors
NHS England has named two directors for new posts as part of its ongoing restructure.
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News
‘National legal services system’ proposed by NHSE
NHS England is looking to scale back spending on legal advice by rationalising the way local organisations procure and use services.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Doctors think the board wants them to take risks with safety
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ Local
Trust faces trial after denying care failings over teenager’s death
A mental health trust has denied charges relating to the death of a teenage inpatient but admitted care failings relating to two other cases.