All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 7
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NewsDemanding A&E, elective and cancer targets for 2026-27 revealed
Trusts have been told to treat 82 per cent of A&E attendees within four hours next year, and must also hit a slew of other new targets revealed in the latest planning guidance.
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NewsGovernment delays new NHS workforce plan
The government has pushed back publication of its new NHS workforce plan to spring next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsJoint NHSE-DHSC leadership team revealed
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have set out how the service will be jointly led by the two organisations until their formal merger is complete sometime in 2027.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: How the Leeds Way went wrong
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, one of the biggest acute providers in Europe, was seen as an example of how a trust can turn things around, despite its size and complexity.
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NewsEx-tabloid editor to review ‘integration’ of DHSC and NHSE media teams
Wes Streeting has hired a former newspaper editor to review the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England’s “media and digital work”.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Windows on the world
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsNHSE intervenes over trust’s leadership failures
NHS England has taken legal enforcement action against one of England’s biggest teaching trusts over concerns about its leadership and governance.
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NewsDHSC to spend £8m on IT for NHSE takeover
The Department of Health and Social Care is expecting to spend at least £8m on new IT infrastructure to aid its takeover of NHS England’s functions.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The patient cost of ICB cuts
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsManagement training scheme more likely to reject minority ethnic applicants
Applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds are much more likely than others to be rejected by the NHS graduate management training scheme, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHR firm called in over chair-CEO clash
An HR firm has carried out an investigation into a trust group’s CEO and chair following a breakdown in their relationship, HSJ has learned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Can patients save the NHS?
This week, the HSJ Health Check podcast explores how Labour hopes a fundamental change in the relationship between patients and services can turn the NHS around.
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NewsMackey demands sign-off on disruptive tech deployments
NHS England’s chief executive is requiring personal sign-off before allowing new major hospital IT systems to be switched on, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: A risk too far
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsStreeting accused of ignoring nurses’ safety warning
Wes Streeting has failed to respond to an “urgent” warning from a clinical group that safety is being compromised by gaps in community services, HSJ has been told.
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CommentThe third sector must take Healthwatch’s place in the development of neighbourhoods
The Department of Health and Social Care must map out a collective vision which includes the third sector as a key partner in the development of the promised neighbourhood health service.
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NewsOnline overtakes phone for GP booking
More people have reported contacting their GP practice online than by phone for the first time, and more of them found access “easy”, new figures show.
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NewsManagers’ pay rise blocked at 21 trusts and ICBs
Very senior managers at 21 poorly performing trusts and integrated care boards must not be awarded this year’s pay uplift, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsNHSE’s improvement teams axed
NHS England’s elective, emergency care and mental health improvement support teams are being axed – and their staff and functions merged into the Getting it Right First Time programme, HSJ has learned.












