All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 8
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NewsRecord-low turnover ‘will derail savings plans’
The rate of NHS staff leaving their jobs has fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade, as many organisations seek to cut their paybill, analysis reveals.
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NewsCash-poor trust told financial plan is ‘unachievable’
A cash-poor trust has been told its plan to double the savings it delivered in the past two years is “unachievable”.
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CommentNew stroke service standards are a necessary reset
A new scoring system reflects updated stroke care standards, revealing some worrying service gaps
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CommentWe don’t need a ‘national blueprint’ for neighbourhood care
While the NHS Neighbourhood Programme marks a welcome step towards addressing health inequalities, it risks repeating past mistakes unless it abandons centrally prescribed solutions and truly empowers local communities
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NewsICBs told to ‘urgently review unacceptable waiting times’
NHS England has warned integrated care boards it is “not acceptable” to set “minimum waiting times” of more than 18 weeks for elective care.
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News‘Unexpected’ budget hole puts trust under NHSE intervention
A trust that made an “unexpected” loss of more than £20m last year is facing tough new controls from NHS England amid concern over its financial governance.
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NewsFive new directors join NHSE board
Government is overhauling the board of NHS England with five high-profile new non-executive directors.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Restructure hits deadlock in many ICBs
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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NewsICBs set to miss government cost-cutting target
A series of integrated care boards have said they will not be able to meet the deadline to cut staffing costs by the end of 2025, due to a lack of central funding for redundancies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsStop letting down resident doctors, NHSE tells trusts
Trusts are to have new responsibilities for improving resident doctors’ working lives under a plan unveiled by NHS England today.
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CommentFlawed league tables risk confusion and harm
A flawed approach to the government’s new league tables for trusts risks rewarding the wrong things, say the chief executives of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation
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NewsBoards told to rate their own ‘capability’
Trust leaders have been told to rate their own boards’ “capability” under new rules that could influence which providers are put in a new special measures regime.
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NewsRevealed: The trusts spending most and least on training
Trusts in London have spent far more on staff training per employee than any other region in the country, new analysis has revealed.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Reality bites for AI hype
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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NewsTrusts step in to pay for ‘vital’ IT system cut by NHSE
Ambulance trusts have taken on the cost of a “vital” national IT system which stops services being overwhelmed by calls, after its funding was cut by NHS England.
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CommentCompetition between GPs and pharmacies is hampering service integration
Community pharmacies are vital to NHS reforms, but funding, workforce, collaboration and digital barriers threaten their expanded role, write RAND Europe’s Robert J. Romanelli, Saoirse Moriarty and Maggie Bradford
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NewsTargets revealed for £40m bonus fund
NHS England has published the criteria trusts must meet to secure a share of a £40m elective incentives pot.
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NewsTrust hires ex-national director as CEO
A national director who left NHS England earlier this year is returning to work as a hospital trust CEO.
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News‘Integration is not enough’, NHSE demands ‘credible, affordable’ local plans
New five-year plans to be drawn up by all NHS organisations this autumn must be “credible, deliverable and affordable”, and boards must actively challenge them rather than them “simply endorsing the final version”, NHS England has said.
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NewsExclusive: Full cost of federated data platform to exceed £1bn
The full cost of the national federated data platform programme is set to exceed £1bn over its first seven years, HSJ can reveal for the first time.