All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 8
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NewsHospital group to enter failure regime
A hospital group with major finance and governance problems is about to be put into the new national failure regime for trusts.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: A&Es brace for ‘mad March’
Hospitals are being told by NHS England to focus on easy wins to hit this financial year’s A&E targets, so on this episode we unpick what trusts are being asked to do and whether this will get them over the line by the end of March.
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NewsLong A&E waits worst on record
Long A&E waits last month hit their highest level since public records began, as NHS England warns it’s battling its “busiest winter on record”.
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NewsNHSE to stave off monopoly in ‘fragile’ market
NHS England is working to stop a monopoly taking hold of the “fragile” £120m-a-year home oxygen services market.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: War and peace
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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NewsStaff at trust fear speaking up puts 'target on their back'
A trust’s staff “fear raising concerns about attitudes, behaviours and sexual safety”, particularly about senior managers and doctors, a review by NHS England has found.
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HSJ LocalNHSE takes power to remove directors from two city trusts
NHS England has served two more trusts in the North West with enforcement action over their finances.
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NewsNHS sheds thousands of managers and support staff
The expansion of large parts of the NHS’s non-clinical workforce has started to reverse for the first time in years, figures show.
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NewsNHSE to revive 2000s-style improvement collaboratives
NHS England plans to revive compulsory “structured improvement collaboratives” for outpatients, urgent and emergency care, and frailty services – in an echo of the Modernisation Agency approach of the 2000s.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt’s sobering realisation about bureaucracy and box ticking
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsEleven unions raise grievance over office working
Eleven unions have launched a formal collective grievance with NHS England over its order that staff spend more time in their office, HSJ understands.
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NewsChase ‘quick wins’ to hit A&E target, hospitals told
Hospitals are being encouraged to target children, less sick patients, and “near miss breaches” in the final weeks of the financial year, in an attempt to hit the government’s A&E target.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The secret plan for ICBs, and other restructure woes
This week, we cover a mysterious update to the “model ICB” blueprint that hasn’t been formally published or endorsed by NHS England, but instead passed in whispers.
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NewsFlagship trusts still not using federated data platform
Many of England’s largest and most prestigious trusts are yet to start using the federated data platform, despite a push from the centre for full adoption from April.
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Expert BriefingOn Call: What 2026 means for strikes
Essential insights into the latest workforce challenges facing NHS staff. Analysis on the key questions around recruitment and retention, staff wellbeing, and equality, diversity and inclusion. By HSJ workforce correspondent Nick Kituno.
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NewsMinisters overclaimed impact of ‘crack’ elective teams
Elective activity has “barely increased” at the hospitals targeted with “crack teams” to cut waiting lists – contrary to ministers’ claims that the work has “turbocharged activity” – analysis reveals.
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NewsExclusive: New national mental health director revealed
An integrated care board chief and former mental health trust leader is set to be appointed as the new national director for mental health and learning disabilities.
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NewsNHSE to take greater risks on data sharing
NHS England is increasing its “risk appetite” for sharing performance and care quality data around the service and with the public, and claims that in future it will seek ”legal and governance advice” less often.
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NewsICB declares ‘very serious’ £200m deficit
An integrated care board has revised the year-end financial forecast for its system from breakeven to a £198m deficit, with two months to go.
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NewsRevealed: Bid to overhaul key emergency target
National officials are in talks about a major overhaul of the ambulance response time target that covers more than half of emergency calls.












