All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 72
-
Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: How 1,000 patients fell through the cracks
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
-
NewsMinisters blasted by scandal inquiry chair
The government’s response to the East Kent maternity scandal inquiry has been condemned as ‘very disappointing’ by its chair.
-
NewsTrusts told to comply with raft of new green building standards
Trusts must seek additional approvals for new building developments if they cannot comply with a series of new green standards, including the total amount of carbon produced by projects.
-
NewsNHS England considers ‘centrally negotiated’ energy contract
NHS England is considering plans for a centrally negotiated energy contract, HSJ understands.
-
NewsNHSE treats me like ‘a band 7’ says ICB chief
An outspoken integrated care board leader has criticised NHS England’s micromanagement, adding that it was ‘not in the make-up’ of some healthcare chiefs to collaborate.
-
NewsWe let down manager who suffered racial discrimination, says Pritchard
Amanda Pritchard has told NHS England staff the organisation ‘let down’ a senior nurse who suffered racial discrimination, and its handling of her concerns was ‘inadequate’.
-
NewsTrusts not using new procurement route risk losing share of £250m fund
NHS England is making a dynamic purchasing system its approved route to market for trusts buying equipment and systems to run virtual wards and remote monitoring programmes, HSJ can reveal.
-
News30pc cut to ICB staffing budgets
Integrated care boards have been told to cut their running costs — most of which is their staff — by 30 per cent.
-
NewsRace and deprivation set back medical trainees, GMC analysis finds
New research shared with HSJ has ‘laid bare’ the inequalities experienced by medical trainees, with black doctors more likely to perform worse in exams than any other ethnic group.
-
NewsConsultancy firm wins £13m contract for NHSE merger work
NHS England is paying management consultancy PA Consulting up to £13m under a new contract to help merge its national directorates and regional teams with those of NHS Digital and Health Education England.
-
Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Tooting or Waterloo?
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
-
CommentThe answer to improving urgent mental healthcare
Figuring out the best way to help people experiencing a mental health crisis to access the care they need is not a new challenge
-
HSJ LocalBMA ‘rate card’ wipes out elective recovery gains, claims trust
A struggling acute trust says its failure to hit its elective care targets is directly linked to doctors’ demanding overtime rates in line with the British Medical Association’s new rate cards, as national tensions around the issue intensify.
-
NewsCyber security strategy among dozens of tech promises missed by government
The government has failed to meet most of its own deadlines for commitments to improve how the NHS uses data, including developing a cyber security strategy, HSJ can reveal.
-
NewsScores of domestic flights taken by NHSE staff each year
NHS England staff have taken hundreds of domestic flights for ‘internal meetings’ in the last six years – although a target to reduce carbon emissions from air travel has been achieved.
-
NewsCCTV to be used ‘pro-actively’ by trusts to combat abuse
Mental health trusts are exploring wider use of CCTV to review incidents of seclusion or restraint in response to high-profile abuse scandals, HSJ has learned.
-
NewsBattle for cancer centre turns in favour of challenger
A controversial transfer of children’s cancer services has moved a step closer after an NHS England assessment process supported the move.
-
Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: All change for maternity transformation
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
-
NewsBoris office chief made DHSC director
Former senior Downing Street official Samantha Jones is to become a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care, HSJ has learned.
-
HSJ LocalMore prosecutions launched over patient deaths at trust
A scandal-hit mental health trust is facing further prosecutions over alleged care failings relating to the deaths of two inpatients, HSJ can reveal.