All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 311
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NewsRevealed: Trust has 1,000 patients waiting over a year for treatment
East London trust has 1,015 patients waiting more than a year on elective RTT pathway Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust’s total dwarfs reported national figure True national total not known as large acute trusts fail to report waiting times data Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt ...
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NewsJim Mackey warns against 'trendy' transformation plans
STP plans must not rely on new organisational models, says Jim Mackey He cites collapsed £800m contract as example of what not to do Leaders selected to head up STPs by local areas may also be changed Local NHS organisations have been warned against building their sustainability and ...
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HSJ LocalSpecialised cancer services shake-up in Greater Manchester
Transformation team confirms plans to reduce the number of surgical centres for oesophago-gastric and urology cancers There are three OG surgery sites and five sites for urology cancer surgery NHS England previously announced plans to consolidate the services on two sites but failed to achieve a consensus Health ...
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NewsStevens: 44 transformation patches will cover England
Half of sustainability and transformation plan patches are led by CCG chiefs NHS England expects to impose a lead for a small number which have no suitable leader Simon Stevens says STPs will be “umbrella plans” There will be 44 sustainability and transformation plan footprints, with half of ...
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NewsExclusive: Treasury tightens grip on CCGs with control of £800m fund
The spending of £800m of commissioning budgets will be subject to Treasury approval next year, it has emerged.
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NewsSimon Stevens reveals first 10 'healthy new towns'
Simon Stevens unveils 10 sites to be part of Healthy New Towns programme NHS England aims to “design in” health focused features, including fast food free zones near schools and dementia friendly streets Clinicians, designers and technology experts to shape care provision in each location NHS England chief ...
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CommentPeople power is the key to saving the planet
Top-down leadership plus harnessed emotional intelligence can create great change on sustainability
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NewsPharma firms to cover overspends on new cancer drugs fund
Cancer drugs fund will be a “managed access” fund from July Under new scheme money due for drugs will be set aside and retained by NHS England if CDF budget is overspent Pharmaceutical firms and cancer charity criticise changes NHS England has confirmed that its new Cancer Drugs ...
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NewsNHS England finds £156m to help boost DH bottom line
NHS England sets aside £156m of reserves and underspends to help boost DH bottom line This has driven an increase in its forecast underspend to £295m Prime minister’s access fund and primary care transformation fund are among programmes expected to underspend Move part of concerted national effort to prevent ...
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News'Tens of millions' needed to develop GP leaders
“Tens of millions” of pounds needs to be invested in leadership development for GPs at the helm of large scale provider groups, a senior NHS England official has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS needs national centre for quality improvement, says report
Report co-authored by Don Berwick calls for national centre of quality improvement expertise Criticises reliance on inspection for improvement as “too costly, too weak and inimical to dynamic change” Chris Ham warns that freedom of NHS organisations is being “reduced” as national bodies tighten “grip” A “national centre ...
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NewsWomen should control maternity care budgets, review says
National Maternity Review calls for personalised maternity budgets by 2020 Recommendations aim to improve choice and increase community births Review says a significant increase in midwifery workforce is not required Women should be given their own budgets to spend on their maternity care, a national review has said, ...
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NewsThe National Maternity Review’s 14 key recommendations
The National Maternity Review commissioned by NHS England was published on Tuesday. Here are its key recommendations:
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NewsExclusive: Baby death investigation uncovers systemic failings at trust
New investigation exposes how vital documents never existed and policies were out of date Midwives routinely ignored policies and guidelines as part of the “culture” in midwifery led unit Trust to review historical incidents and deaths to ensure no wider problems A midwife who retrospectively altered the clinical ...
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NewsCCGs confident in joint planning process despite major barriers
Two thirds of CCG leaders responding to survey confident in agreeing joint sustainability and transformation plans However, they identify many national and locals barriers to agreeing STPs Nearly two thirds of clinical commissioning leaders are confident their health system can agree a strong sustainability and transformation plan, according ...
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HSJ LocalManchester GPs could start ‘shadow’ voluntary contracts from April
GPs could begin adopting shadow MCP type contracts in April Discussions around shadow contracts at advanced stage, HSJ understands GP federation chair says their work is influencing national contract discussions STUCTURE: Primary care providers across Greater Manchester could start operating population based contracts in shadow form from as ...
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NewsNHS England stands by decision to approve CCG for co-commissioning
NHS England London defends process that saw Barnet CCG given more primary care commissioning powers CCG was authorised to do this, along with others in north London, a month after Verita report into conflicts of interest was completed NHS England says it “monitor issues like this closely” to ensure ...
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NewsOne per cent pay uplift in new GP contract
GPs get 1 per cent pay rise as part of 2016-17 national contract Additional £220m of funding included in the agreement Practices will have to record data on availability of evening and weekend ‘routine’ appointments A deal announced today on the 2016-17 national GP contract includes a 1 ...
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NewsCCGs 'unprepared' for specialised surgery handover
Clinicians raise concerns with Jeremy Hunt after survey finds two thirds of CCGs have taken no action to prepare for transfer of obesity surgery commissioning Only 12 per cent of CCGs aware of post-surgery “follow up protocols”. Lack of follow up can be fatal Transfer delayed for a second ...
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NewsConflict of interest confusion 'common' among CCGs
Confusion in clinical commissioning groups about how involved GPs should be in designing services is “a common issue” nationwide, senior NHS England figures told investigators.