All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 23
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The three steps in a successful virtual wards programme
Sara Gariban highlights three barriers to scaling up virtual wards and how overcoming them will enable the NHS to fully harness their potential for patients, staff and the wider health and care system
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NHSE must ‘demonstrate integrity’ in procurement of £480m data platform
The National Data Guardian has called on NHS England to “demonstrate integrity” by providing greater transparency over the procurement process for the high-profile federated data platform.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: Regulation of managers is the easy answer
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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Nursing director suspended over Letby concerns
The former chief nurse of Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust has been suspended by her current employer, after the conviction of Lucy Letby for murdering babies while working in Chester.
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NHSE reminds trusts not to appoint unfit directors, in wake of Letby conviction
NHS England has asked local leaders to ‘ensure’ processes are in place to properly protect whistleblowers, and to block directors who have been deemed unfit, following Lucy Letby’s conviction for murdering seven babies despite attempts to raise concerns.
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Revealed: the huge growth in long-term prescription of strong painkillers
Almost 180,000 patients have been prescribed strong painkillers every month for two years, a rise of over a third compared to levels recorded just before the pandemic, data obtained by HSJ shows.
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Cutting procurement ‘red tape’ will save £100m, says NHSE
NHS England has revealed plans to “cut red tape” in procurement by slashing the number of frameworks through which suppliers do business with the NHS.
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New cancer ‘expectation’ revealed by NHSE
The proportion of patients who receive treatment within 62 days of an initial referral for cancer checks should rise to 70 per cent by March next year, NHS England has said.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Moving the blockage
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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'Tougher ambition' for cancer diagnoses set by NHSE
A ‘tougher ambition’ to increase the proportion of patients getting a cancer diagnosis within 28 days of referral will be introduced in 2025, NHS England has announced today.
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‘Warts and all’ references for NHS leaders ‘may be attacked’
NHS England could have gone further to insist that errors and failures by senior NHS leaders are disclosed to future employers, according to the leading barrister who reviewed the NHS’s fit and proper person test.
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NHSE chief officer takes role in Singapore
The NHS’s first chief sustainability officer Nick Watts has stepped back from the role after nearly three years, HSJ has learned.
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NHSE reveals ‘two tier’ intervention regime for ICSs
Failing integrated care boards can commit to improving before NHS England formally intervenes, according to new ‘enforcement guidance’ set out by the regulator.
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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.
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Exclusive: Hancock denies political motive for inclusion of ‘Red Wall’ project in new hospital programme
A building project in a marginal constituency was added to the government’s ‘40 new hospitals’ programme despite not being on the longlist of schemes proposed by NHS England.
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US firm gets green light for £1.2bn takeover of UK GP tech giant
American health giant UnitedHealth has provisionally been given the go-ahead to buy UK-based firm EMIS – the leading supplier of GP IT systems – by the Competition and Markets Authority in a deal worth £1.2bn.
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Most cancer targets set to be scrapped
NHS England is expected to confirm plans consulted on last year to cut several cancer targets, including the two-week target for urgent appointments.
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Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in June 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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‘Very targeted’ redundancies planned at NHS England
NHS England has said any further voluntary redundancies as part of its restructure will be offered in a “very targeted way”, as it has already seen many departures and needs to “protect public money and keep people in employment”.
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Strike exemption requests not approved despite staffing concerns
Updated: Several trusts’ requests for exemptions from junior doctors’ strike actions — citing difficulties securing enough shifts to safely staff services — were not approved, and in one case withdrawn by the British Medical Association.