All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 397
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NewsInnovation networks could 'fill gap left by SHAs'
HSJ has produced the first national audit of progress made by the NHS’s academic health science networks amid suggestions that the new bodies could take on far more expansive roles than originally envisaged.
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NewsNicholson defends senior pay in row with MPs
Sir David Nicholson has told MPs the suggestion he changed his opinion to fit the facts was “beyond response” during a heated discussion on the pay of senior health service managers.
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NewsBaumann: deprived areas will not lose out under new formula
The most deprived areas will not lose out under the new formula for allocating funds to clinical commissioning groups, NHS England’s finance director has told MPs.
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NewsExclusive: DH warned on barriers to migrants accessing care
An internal Department of Health report on health inequalities warned about barriers to migrants accessing care, only a month before the government announced it would extend charges for them, it has emerged.
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NewsPrimary care contracting faces cuts and possible outsourcing
NHS England’s primary care contract managers will be reorganised and reduced by September next year, with the services potentially being outsourced.
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NewsCCGs and NHS England report growing budget shortfalls
The number of clinical commissioning groups expecting to record a deficit at the end of this year has nearly tripled to 24, while NHS England is also expecting to overspend its own budgets by £93m.
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NewsHSJ's inspirational women call for action
Senior health service figures are being asked to address the under-representation of women in leadership of the NHS, in the wake of HSJ’s Women’s Issue earlier this year.
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NewsMorecambe Bay investigation will seek families' input
Further details have emerged of the independent inquiry into University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust’s maternity and neonatal services.
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NewsMore emergency departments breach waiting time targets
Increasing numbers of accident and emergency patients are being treated outside the maximum four hour wait year on year over the past four summers, an HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsCQUIN bar 'set too low' says innovation chief
The standards required by trusts to receive incentive payments designed to drive innovation were “probably set too low”, NHS England’s innovation chief said last week.
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Blogs
News you can confuse
The appointment of Simon Stevens as NHS England chief executive was greeted with near-ubiquitous ecstasy in health policy world.However the mainstream media was more circumspect, perhaps unsure as to whether to paint him as modernising visionary or private sector villain.Thank goodness then for Top News, the international English language service, ...
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HSJ KnowledgeA different path for dementia care
With cases of dementia set to top 1m by 2021, leadership is needed
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NewsMonitor will focus on competition in Manchester cancer investigation
Monitor has revealed its investigation into the commissioning of cancer services in Manchester will focus on whether competition rules were breached.
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NewsGP and hospital records to be ‘linked’ by June
The flagship patient data service, care.data, will be able to “link” data from patients’ GP records to their hospital records by June next year, NHS England has announced.
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Exclusive: Wellbeing boards must avoid becoming 'a side show'
More than three quarters of health and wellbeing boards believe they have little influence over NHS England, according to a major study shared exclusively with HSJ and its sister title Local Government Chronicle.
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CommentMichael White: A warm welcome for Simon Stevens
Stevens’ US experience can be invaluable for the NHS
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Read the GMC's Hakin decision in full
The General Medical Council has concluded there is no realistic prospect of proving allegations Dame Barbara Hakin bullied former hospital chief executive Gary Walker due to a lack of convincing evidence.
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NewsRegulator chiefs summoned to Number 10 over winter pressures
The chief executives of the three major health regulators have been summoned by the prime minister to discuss the pressures the service is likely to come under this winter, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Hakin cleared of bullying and endangering patient safety
NHS England’s interim deputy chief executive Dame Barbara Hakin has been cleared of acting in a “bullying” and unprofessional manner by the General Medical Council, HSJ can reveal.