All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 45
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NewsDoctors who worked during strike thanked by NHSE chief
Amanda Pritchard has thanked junior doctors who “returned to work to ensure minimum levels of cover” during last week’s strike, “whether or not formal patient safety mitigations were granted” by their union, along with others who helped “keep patients safe”.
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NewsNHSE wants more hospital beds opened as covid and flu ‘peaks’ approach
NHS England is aiming to boost hospital bed numbers ahead of expected peaks in flu and covid in mid-January, after missing a previous beds target.
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CommentICBs will not improve collaboration if they also try to be performance managers
Sara Gariban describes three essentials to ensure trust leaders make system working a success and thus build efficient, resilient and responsive services
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NewsA&E target set to be raised, despite NHS missing lower bar
NHS England and government are set to raise their target for four-hour A&E performance, despite most hospitals failing to meet the current ask.
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NewsNHSE to catalogue ‘harm and near misses’ where BMA rejects derogations
The NHS will start recording harm caused to patients during strike action where exemptions have been rejected by the British Medical Association – amid an escalating row between the union and NHS England.
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CommentHow Healthwatch helps the NHS engage with communities
As 2024 begins, Louise Ansari, CEO at Healthwatch England, highlights some of the projects that made a difference for patients last year while showing the vital role of local action. We need to hear more of such examples in the new year.
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NewsNHSE trying to ‘undermine’ doctors strike, claims BMA
NHS England has been accused of bowing to political pressure and trying to “undermine” the junior doctors strike.
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NewsNHSE claims 20% cut in long waiters before latest strikes
Trusts reduced the number of 65-week breaches by around 20 per cent and cut the overall elective waiting list between October and mid-December, according to provisional NHS England data.
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NewsSurgeon CEO takes on interim role leading second trust
The CEO of a children’s hospital trust has taken an interim role leading a general acute provider in the same system, whose substantive chief is “undertaking an assignment with NHS London on provider collaboratives”.
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NewsLondon gets well over ‘fair share’ of specialised services while rural areas miss out
People in some more rural areas are missing out on specialist treatments they should be getting, while Londoners are receiving a lot more than their “fair share”, new NHS England figures suggest.
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NewsRevealed: Doubling of average waits for critical stroke treatments
Stroke patients in England are waiting an average of almost seven hours for a specialist bed, double the wait reported before covid.
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NewsFT chair steps down after critical CQC report
The chair of a trust, which was given a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission after an inspection earlier this year, has stepped down.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read quality and performance stories of 2023
2024 has arrived, but there’s still time to have a look over the most-read quality and performance stories for the year just gone.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read policy stories of 2023
It’s the last day of 2023 so we’ve taken a look back at HSJ’s most-read policy stories for the year.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read technology stories of 2023
While 2024 gets ready to launch, we’ve crunched the data to find HSJ’s most-read technology stories of 2023.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read workforce stories of 2023
As we prepare to part ways with 2023, we’ve taken a look back at the most-read workforce stories of the year.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read integration stories of 2023
As 2023 turns into 2024, we look at the integration stories which climbed their way up the most-read list this year
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read finance stories of 2023
As we prepare to close the book on 2023, we’re taking stock of our most-read finance stories of the year
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NewsFocus on productivity in 2024, NHSE tells boards
Letter from NHSE calls for ’focus on recovering our core service delivery and productivity’ Planning guidance delayed to 2024 after Treasury refused to sign it off Guidance now planned for January The Treasury has refused to sign off the NHS’s annual planning guidance in the wake of disruption ...
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read stories of 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, HSJ takes a look at its most-read stories of the year.