All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 350
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HSJ daily digest: Tariff tremors and election lessons for the NHS
HSJ’s daily digest of Monday’s significant developments for healthcare leaders:
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      NewsMonitor readies itself to refer tariff row to CMA
Monitor’s pricing team are readying themselves to be able to refer rejected tariff proposals for 2015-16 to the Competition and Markets Authority as soon as next month, should the regulator’s board decide to do so.
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Exclusive: Clinical leaders 'more willing to challenge diktats', research finds
Clinical leaders are ‘more willing to challenge or ignore diktats and messages from above’ than their managerial colleagues in clinical commissioning groups, research shared exclusively with HSJ has found.
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      NewsTariff proposal threatens delayed discharge schemes
Schemes to reduce the number of patients with a delayed discharge have been scaled back because commissioners can no longer afford to fund them under current tariff arrangements, trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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      NewsAstraZeneca president 'would not back pricing deal again'
The UK president of drug giant AstraZeneca has indicated she would not sign up to another deal similar to the current pharmaceutical pricing scheme unless the NHS makes a ‘substantial’ increase of drugs access.
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      HSJ KnowledgeSurvey: The five things the next government should not do
Readers listed rising waiting lists, a reorganisation of commissioning and political interference
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      NewsAnalysis: Some CCGs expect deficits up to three times higher than planned
A clutch of clinical commissioning groups ended 2014-15 expecting deficits up to three times higher than planned, even as the majority saw their outlook for the year improved by a funding rebate.
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      HSJ LocalLeeds Community Healthcare 'requires improvement', CQC finds
PERFORMANCE: Leeds Community Healthcare Trust has been rated ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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      HSJ KnowledgeHSJ analysis: How social media influences NHS debate
Scrutinising the hot topic of emergency performance
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      CommentWhy the Mail's 'NHS fat cats' story is so offensive
I was mightily offended by the Mail’s revelations
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      HSJ LocalSouth West FT breaches licence over finances
FINANCE: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has breached its provider licence following an investigation by Monitor.
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      NewsMore CCGs tendering services due to fear over competition rules
More than 40 per cent of commissioners say their organisations are inviting competition for NHS services due solely to their concerns about controversial competition rules, an HSJ survey has found.
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      NewsExclusive: CCG leaders fear political priorities would come first under HWBs
A large majority of commissioning leaders believe clinical priorities would lose out to political priorities if lead responsibility for NHS services was handed to health and wellbeing boards, an exclusive HSJ survey has found.
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      NewsNew safe staffing indicator revealed
A new safe staffing indicator for hospitals across England will be launched this summer, HSJ has learned.
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      NewsExclusive: Four out of five hospitals miss own nurse staffing targets
More than four out of five acute hospitals in England are failing to meet their own targets for nurse staffing, HSJ analysis reveals.
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      HSJ LocalSomerset CCG mulls early end to provider contracts
FINANCE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is considering whether to release itself from contracts with a number of local providers in a bid to reduce financial pressures.
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      SupplementsGood leadership doesn't happen by chance
Develop effective leadership to meet the forward view challenges
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      CommentWho will pay for all these vague election promises?
Big numbers being bandied about may come back to bite us
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      HSJ LocalCCG to develop community teams based around GP lists
STRUCTURE: Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is devising a new service model for community healthcare based around GP practice populations.
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      NewsExclusive: Trusts received contract offers on deadline day
Some contracts for 2015-16 remain unsigned two weeks after the deadline as some trusts only received their offers on the day they were meant to be signed, HSJ has been told.
 
      










