All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 352
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HSJ LocalSheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsTrusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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NewsQOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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NewsCore GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.
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DH backs shifting national safety functions to single body
The Department of Health has said it “makes sense” to combine national patient safety functions into one organisation, following today’s Francis review report.
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NewsHunt calls for whistleblower protection 'on statute books' before election
The government will aim to get increased safeguards for NHS whistleblowers on to the statute books before the general election, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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NewsTrusts should employ whistleblower ‘guardians’, Francis says
Sir Robert Francis QC has called for every NHS organisation to employ a full time officer to act in an ‘independent capacity’ to hear whistleblowers’ concerns and raise them at board level, as part of his review into creating an open culture in the NHS.
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NewsFrancis calls for stronger legal protection for whistleblowers
Ministers should extend the legal protection for NHS staff who raise whistleblowing concerns through a system to also help those out of work find new jobs in the service, the Francis review has said.
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NewsNo binding powers for national whistleblowing 'officer'
A new ‘independent national officer’ role should be created to oversee and review the treatment of NHS whistleblowers, Sir Robert Francis’s ‘freedom to speak up review’ has recommended.
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LeaderStevens is dismantling the recent past to make way for the NHS's future
The end of Lansley’s act
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NewsStevens: 'Mixed model' could see CCGs hand over powers
Simon Stevens favours a ‘mixed model’ of health economy accountability in which some clinical commissioning groups could delegate responsibilities to local authorities or providers of new care models, he has told HSJ.
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NewsA 'new cadre' of leaders will rise this year, says Stevens
This year will see a ‘generational shift’ in senior NHS management with the rise of a ‘new cadre’ of leaders able to see beyond the interests of single institutions, the NHS England chief executive has said.
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NewsStevens: New care vanguard must bring in GP lists
The involvement of GPs is the most important and most challenging factor facing any area wanting to trial one of the new models of care detailed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsNHS England chief backs Monitor-TDA merger
Simon Stevens believes the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor should be merged.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens moves to sidestep pricing rules after provider revolt
Trusts will be asked to accept a new ‘voluntary’ tariff for 2015-16 after the formal price setting process was thrown into uncertainty and delay by a provider revolt, Simon Stevens has proposed.
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HSJ LocalTrust still waiting for £4m to clear elective backlog
FINANCE: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust is still awaiting £4m of funding to help it clear its large backlog of elective patients waiting for treatment.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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NewsCoalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
The coalition government’s flagship legislation on health was ‘damaging and distracting’, and ‘historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, an influential think tank has claimed.