All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 37
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NewsPlanning guidance delayed to 2025
Wes Streeting has pledged to keep the “investment standard” which protects spending on mental healthcare, but has revealed 2025-26 planning rules will not be confirmed until next year.
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NewsTrust warns of ‘catastrophic’ delays as NHSE provides £10m cash boost
An ambulance trust has been given an extra £10m by NHS England to cover the cost of A&E handover delays that took place in the first six months of 2024-25.
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CommentThe NHS must take back control of its data
Robust data infrastructure and language AI could transform the NHS, addressing the challenges of unstructured data and the critical need for ethical, transparent data governance in healthcare, writes Dr Joe Zhang, head of data science at the Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare
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NewsNHSE downgrades commercial leadership
NHS England’s commercial team is to be downgraded following the imminent departure of the organisation’s chief commercial officer.
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds of mothers diverted while in labour
Nearly 1,000 women were diverted to other NHS trusts or units while in labour within a six-month period this year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in October 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.
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NewsStevens moves to force ministers to protect mental health spend
The former chief executive of NHS England has launched a parliamentary bid to safeguard mental health from budget cuts.
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CommentAccelerating elective recovery takes a pause
The rate of waiting list reduction has paused far short of the required one million per year.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Break even or pay freeze
This week’s podcast looks at pay and who is going to get what next year, and on what conditions.
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HSJ InteractiveDigital transformation will be key to ‘last chance’ NHS reforms
Two conflicting views wove through the HSJ and IBM event on how information technology might help deliver the forthcoming 10-year NHS plan.
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NewsBill for extra medical shifts soars to £3bn
NHS spending on agency and bank shifts for doctors rose by £470m to top £3bn last year – 68 per cent up on pre-covid levels – new figures reveal.
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NewsPay deal could extend waiting list and ‘make day job even harder’, says NHSE
A pay rise of more than the 2.8 per cent budgeted for next year would slow down the NHS’s waiting list recovery, and make “the day-to-day job of NHS staff even harder”, NHS England has claimed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The plan this winter
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsCost and safety concerns hamper crisis care
Most integrated care boards report a lack of funding is hampering the NHS’s efforts to better respond to mental health crisis incidents, rather than requiring a police response.
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News‘No pay rise’ for senior managers who don’t balance budgets
Senior NHS managers who “persistently fail to provide decent care or fail to manage their finances” will not receive annual pay uplifts, the Department of Health and Social Care has said in its evidence to pay review bodies.
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NewsMinisters demand ‘open book approach’ from new NHSE chair
The government is looking for an NHS England chair who has “deep experience” of working in the UK’s “health and care system” and is committed to ensuring government ministers can get the information they need from the organisation.
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NewsNew CEO for trust in highest level of NHSE oversight
A new chief executive has been announced for an acute trust under NHS England’s highest level of scrutiny, completing a clean sweep of CEOs in the wider system.
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NewsExclusive: AI models to be trained on Federated Data Platform
The national Federated Data Platform will be used to train AI models for future use by the NHS, according to NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer.
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NewsStreeting ‘shocked’ by his lack of ‘oversight’ of social care
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has said he is “shocked” by his lack of oversight of adult social care and said he is “determined to improve this” in a call with local leaders this morning.
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NewsExclusive: 10-year plan digital advisers revealed
HSJ can reveal the 17 members of the digital, data and technology working group which is helping to shape the government’s 10-year health plan, who include six local NHS leaders.