All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 390
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NewsDominance of small GP practices undermines push for extended providers
General practice remains overwhelmingly dominated by providers on single sites with small lists, providing little beyond “core” services, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.
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NewsCaldicott: Information governance knowledge has worsened
The health and social care workforce’s knowledge of good information governance has deteriorated since the NHS reforms were implemented, according to the expert commissioned by the government to examine the issue.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: December 2013 data
Interactive maps of local NHS waits around England, showing the pressures and one-year-waits, with links to all the detail by organisation and specialty.
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Blogs
And so it begins: the decline of 18 week waits
The waiting list usually shrinks from August to December. Not this time. The waiting list now looks set to pass the 3 million mark around Easter, and there is a risk of England-wide 18 week breaches this year.
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NewsRoughton to consider how CCGs could co-commission primary care
NHS England is looking into how clinical commissioning groups can co-commission primary care, its deputy medical director has revealed.
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NewsNo integration pioneers win 'accelerator' status
NHS England has reneged on its plan to give a designated “integration pioneer” area special status as a centre of best practice in the use of its £260m technology fund.
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NewsMiliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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NewsCare UK boss outlines expansion goal
The managing director of healthcare at Care UK has used an HSJ interview to express optimism that the company can increase its share of NHS provision, including through taking over the running of hospitals.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chains win backing
Discussions have begun between national NHS bodies on how the provider landscape can be radically reshaped, including on providers forming national chains of hospitals and services.
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'Underfunded' CCG presses for allocation boost
One of the most underfunded clinical commissioning groups in England has warned that its position is putting important investments at risk – and has begun lobbying for a commitment to correct the “iniquity” in NHS allocations within five years.
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NewsExclusive: Adebowale says differential tariff deflator policy is 'laughable'
NHS England board member Lord Adebowale has described the policy of imposing cuts to mental health and community trusts, which are a fifth higher than those for other sectors, as “bordering on laughable”.
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NewsExclusive: Cash penalties axed for care fund failure
The Department of Health has scrapped plans to withhold money from areas that fail to deliver performance improvements through joint commissioning with local authorities.
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NewsExclusive: National bodies back community services plans
Efforts to develop quality indicators and a tariff payment system for community services providers have taken a leap forward after winning the support of the main national health leadership organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsRCGP chair backs co-commissioning of general practice
The chair of the Royal College of GPs has backed the co-commissioning of general practice by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsDH tightens grip on informatics policy
The Department of Health has strengthened its grip on the NHS’s informatics policy by making a key policy group directly accountable to itself, HSJ has learned.
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NewsInformation centre strategy signals ‘turf war’ with NHS England
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is drawing up a technology strategy in a move predicted to put it on a collision course with NHS England.
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NewsGP practices 'receiving £258m for no identified purpose'
NHS England has spent about £258m a year on GP services with no identifiable justification, a review has found.