All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 356
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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.
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NewsPolicy delays risk 'preventable deaths', doctors warn NHS England
Letter says rare conditions drug policy is a “matter of extreme urgency” Doctors warn patient access could be delayed until 2016-17 NHS England to set out timetable for new specialised commissioning process soon Twenty senior doctors and experts have written an open letter to the NHS England board ...
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News63 CCGs take control of primary care budgets despite serious misgivings
Sixty-three clinical commissioning groups have taken on fully delegated responsibility of their primary care budgets despite serious concerns raised by some groups, HSJ has learned.
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CommentThe 18 week target success will only be short lived
Using short term measures means it won’t last
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NewsTrusts reach key waiting target despite winter pressures
Trusts have managed to meet a high profile waiting time target just weeks before the general election.
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NewsIBM to supply electronic record for 1.4m staff
Technology giant IBM is to be the supplier of the electronic staff record system covering 1.4 million NHS staff in England and Wales.
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HSJ LocalKettering FT blames NHS England for stall in seven day plans
PERFORMANCE: A senior figure at Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust has blamed the trust’s slow progress with its seven day service planning on a lack of engagement from NHS England and local commissioners.
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NewsGMC to review decision making in Dame Barbara Hakin investigation
The General Medical Council is to review a decision made during its investigation into complaints against NHS England national director Dame Barbara Hakin.
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NewsMake drug shortages ‘never events’, say MPs
The next government has been urged to treat patient incidents caused by avoidable shortages in prescription medicines as ‘never events’ by a group of MPs.
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HSJ LocalPatients suffer 'harm' due to treatment delays
PERFORMANCE: One patient could have suffered ‘serious harm’ because of a delay in receiving elective treatment caused by a large backlog of patients waiting for operations at Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals.
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NewsLabour's 'profit cap' policy faces European legal hurdles, say lawyers
Ed Miliband’s proposal to cap the profits of private sector providers of NHS services at 5 per cent would come up against EU legislation, lawyers have told HSJ.
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NewsWinter A&E analysis: More ambulance queues and cancelled operations
Ambulance handover delays, cancelled elective operations and delayed transfers of care all saw huge increases this winter, in what has been the most difficult year for accident and emergency departments in a decade.