All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 68
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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.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Rebuilding the trauma centre
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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CommentThe NHS needs a dedicated agency to drive the use of new technology
A serious strategy to innovate is needed to save the health service. Barbara Harpham gives an insight on how this can be achieved
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NewsRevealed: First ICS digital maturity ratings
HSJ can reveal the first ratings given to every integrated care system for the ‘digital maturity’ of its NHS providers.
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News‘Culture battle’ over NHS England’s emergency recovery plans
Senior sources have described a ”culture battle” in NHS England’s approach to urgent care recovery after systems were told to carry out ”maturity” self-assessments and appoint “champions” to drive improvements.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: It's an exciting/sad/frustrating/optimistic time for patient leadership
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS
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NewsSeven trusts inexplicably removed from ‘40 new hospitals’ pledge
Seven trusts were removed from a list used to choose the ‘40 new hospitals’ with no documentation to explain why, a watchdog has found.
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NewsMapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in May 2023, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.