All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 59
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NewsTrusts must hit new A&E target to access capital fund
Trusts ‘over-delivering’ on two emergency care targets this winter will be awarded a share of a new £150m capital fund, NHS England has announced.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The trouble with training
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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News‘Local innovation’ can improve A&E without central funding, says NHSE
An NHS England director has said innovations in urgent and emergency care should be possible without extra central funding, as she set out plans to manage the coming winter.
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NewsAll but two ICSs publish new five-year plans
All but two integrated care systems have published new five-year ‘forward plans’, setting out how they will attempt to recover health services, improve health and wellbeing and mitigate inequalities.
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NewsFresh spending crackdown as NHSE is accused of ‘micro-managing’
Fifteen health systems that submitted deficit plans have been told to review all their staffing vacancies to ‘consider where the removal or freezing of posts is appropriate’.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Quantifying the strike damage
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chiefs James Illman and Ben Clover.
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NewsCyber attack takes out two trusts’ records access
Two ambulance trusts have been left without a working electronic patient care record system for a week after a cyber attack affecting its Swedish-based supplier.
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NewsNHSE advertises 22 director roles
NHS England is advertising 22 national clinical director roles, including two newly created leadership roles, and 20 existing posts.
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CommentThe workforce plan falls short of addressing the appalling state of NHS cancer care
Professor Richard Simcock analyses the shortfalls and gaps in cancer services, highlighting issues like underfunding and understaffing that are yet to be fully addressed by NHS’s cancer workforce plan
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NewsDigitising all trusts by 2025 ‘unachievable’ after £700m cut, government admits
NHS England’s target for all trusts to have a working electronic patient record system by March 2025 is now ‘unachievable’ and a new date has been set a year later, government has admitted.
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CommentMental health is now barely acknowledged by this government
Mental health is barely being acknowledged by the government and must now be put firmly back on at the top of the healthcare policy agenda, writes Sean Duggan
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NewsNHS agency spent £7m on ‘irregular’ payments to external contractors
NHS Digital spent more than £7m on consultants and external contractors without ministerial authorisation, with the organisation’s leadership acknowledging the payments were ‘irregular’.
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NewsOnly one in five staff at care scandal trust confident in execs
Just one-fifth of staff at a trust engulfed in an abuse scandal expressed confidence in the executive team, according to the Care Quality Commission, which has downgraded the trust and its leadership team to ‘inadequate’.
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NewsTrust chiefs sacked ‘only in extreme circumstances’, says government
The government has admitted that many ‘vulnerable’ hospitals ‘suffer with a lack of permanence of leadership’, but said that chiefs are only sacked by NHS England ‘in extreme and exceptional circumstances’.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Who’s to blame for the latest A&E crisis?
A ‘shocking’ volume of mental health patients are attending A&E but whose fault is it – and what is the solution?
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The race to the neighbourhood NHS
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRegulatory ‘burden’ has increased despite promises, say trust leaders
The majority of trust leaders have reported an increase in the ‘burden’ put on them by regulators, citing more demanding ‘ad hoc’ requests during heightened operational pressure.
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CommentThe CQC is losing the confidence of NHS trust leaders
Trust leaders express support for NHS England and CQC’s regulatory changes but raise concerns over increased burden, lack of focus on outcomes, and discrepancies in inspections. Collaboration, transparency, and contextual understanding are called for
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NewsCourage not targets needed to push ‘reticent’ NHS bosses to tackle racism
NHS leaders are still “reticent” to act decisively over racism and diversity problems and it will take courage rather than targets to tackle this challenge, a trust boss has warned.
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NewsModernisation Agency chief returns to lead improvement drive
The director of the Modernisation Agency in the early 2000s is returning to lead a new national service improvement drive, NHS England has announced, while asking systems and providers to “baseline” their improvement needs and capability.