All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 376
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LeaderSqueezed trusts will depend on initiative and DH sympathy
Acute providers lack the power to save
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NewsExclusive: Trusts seek to shield wage bills with income ambitions
English hospitals have reduced the amount they expect to save on wage bills this year, as they focus on cutting costs in other areas and boosting income
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NewsUPDATED: Interactive commissioning system map
HSJ has updated its comprehensive interactive map of the NHS commissioning system, showing critical details about its organisations.
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CommentWays to reduce the increasing NHS pay bill remain elusive
2.6pc spending increase was not part of the plan
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HSJ LocalCross-party MPs push for London GP to be allowed access to the market
COMMERCE: Three MPs in Enfield have backed a seven year campaign by a GP to enter what they argue is the London borough’s “inadequate” primary care market.
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NewsHealthwatch warns of the rise of 'super CCGs'
The health secretary has been urged to rethink legal reforms that would ease the creation of allegedly unaccountable “super clinical commissioning groups”.
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CommentNeil Churchill: What I learnt from my day with carers
I saw what’s working and where we need to change
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the friends and family test scores badly among clinicians
Most doctors and nurses disagree with its scoring method
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NewsFriends and family test changes announced
NHS England is to change how the friends and family test is implemented and presented after a major review concluded it cannot be used as a “single measure” for the quality of care across the health service as originally intended.
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HSJ KnowledgeThirty years on, the Griffiths report makes interesting reading
It sheds light on leadership challenges
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HSJ KnowledgeGill Morgan: We need to manage Griffiths' unintended consequences
Doctors feel outnumbered and managers have been arrogant
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NewsEfficiency savings proposed for next financial year
Monitor and NHS England have proposed a single efficiency factor of between 3 and 5 per cent for 2015-16 across the health service
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NewsControversial emergency care payment rules to stay put
There will be no change next year to controversial rules that restrict the payments hospitals receive for emergency admissions and readmissions
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NewsMonitor signals the end of mental health block contracts
Monitor has signalled the end of block contracts currently used to fund NHS mental health providers as part of a major shake up of the national payment system due to be introduced next year.
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NewsPricing authorities to tighten grip on specialist service payments
Monitor and NHS England have floated plans to tighten their grip on specialist services pricing while mounting a push for local commissioners to move away from national NHS prices
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CommentWhat went wrong in the demise of Choose and Book?
Let’s get to the root of persistent healthcare IT failures
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NewsNHS finances 'stretched to limit'
NHS finances have been ‘stretched to the limit’, influential think tank The King’s Fund has warned.
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HSJ LocalColchester 'failed to tell CQC' about further waiting list allegations
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has criticised the trust at the centre of a scandal over cancer waiting data manipulation for failing to tell inspectors it had received further allegations of waiting lists being manipulated.
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NewsDuty of candour extended to cover wider set of incidents
A statutory duty of candour in the NHS will cover a wider set of incidents than previously expected, and will force NHS trusts to apologise to affected patients, it has emerged.