All articles by Nick Renaud-Komiya – Page 4

  • Financial spreadsheets
    HSJ Local

    First CCG is placed in special measures

    2015-12-14T16:21:00Z

    Shropshire CCG placed in special measures Group will have to agree new 2015-16 forecast financial outturn No legal directions placed on CCG PERFORMANCE: Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group has become the first CCG placed in special measures by NHS England.

  • Waiting room
    News

    NHS England to publish CCG conflict of interest audit

    2015-12-11T15:30:00Z

    NHS England commissions audit into how CCGs co-commissisoning primary care manage conflicts of interest Updated statutory guidance on conflicts of interest to be published in April, MPs told NHS England will publish an independent audit into how potential conflicts of interest among clinical commissioning groups co-commissioning primary care ...

  • Mental health
    HSJ Local

    Private mental health hospital put in special measures

    2015-12-11T11:07:00Z

    Harriet Tubman House is first private mental health hospital to go into special measures CQC found patients who were not detained under the Mental Health Act were not allowed to leave the facility when they wanted Staff had not received training on restraint PERFORMANCE: A private mental health ...

  • Ros Roughton
    News

    PMS 'stock take' will show which practices face funding 'cliff edge'

    2015-12-09T16:04:00Z

    Stock take will assess PMS reviews across country And identify whether practices face big drops Commitment to keep PMS funding in primary care and each locality is maintained An NHS England “stock take” of reviews of personal medical services GP contracts will uncover whether any practices will face a destabilising ...

  • Birmingham
    HSJ Local

    Winners of five Midlands commissioning support contracts named

    2015-12-08T11:36:00Z

    Seven CCGs across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country award five contracts to two commissioning support units £54m deal includes business intelligence, medicines management, IT and “end to end” support services Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU and Midlands and Lancashire CSU will provide services from April COMMERCIAL: ...

  • Martha Lane-Fox
    News

    Lane-Fox tells ministers one in 10 GP patients ‘should use online services by 2017’

    2015-12-08T00:01:00Z

    At least 10 per cent of GP patients should be using digital services by 2017, says DH commissioned review Baroness Lane-Fox outlines proposals to increase use of digital innovations in the NHS NHS England to consider targets to get patients using online services in GP contracts At least ...

  • Stoke-on-Trent
    HSJ Local

    Stoke-on-Trent CCG chair steps down

    2015-12-04T12:28:00Z

    WORKFORCE: Prasad Rao is to step down as chair of Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group.

  • Countryside
    HSJ Local

    Shropshire GPs have ‘no capacity’ to take on rural urgent care work

    2015-12-04T11:25:00Z

    RECONFIGURATION: GP leaders in Shropshire have raised fears that a proposed reorganisation of emergency care in the region would see an increase in GP workloads for which they say there is no more capacity.

  • Woman_GP_with_young_woman_patient
    News

    GPs warned to prepare for cuts to rent payments

    2015-12-02T07:00:00Z

    GP practices in high value areas could face large cuts to notional rent payments from NHS England, surveyors warn NHS England preparing to change the way it calculates premises payments GP practices have been advised to set aside a proportion of the “notional rent” they receive from NHS ...

  • Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust
    HSJ Local

    ‘Inadequate’ Worcestershire trust placed in special measures

    2015-12-02T00:01:00Z

    Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust in special measures after CQC rates it “inadequate” “Urgent” improvements needed in staffing levels, governance, investigation of clinical incidents and culture Reliance on locum staff renders some services “fragile” PERFORMANCE: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust has been placed in special measures.

  • Woman GP with a baby
    News

    Government lacks reliable data for GP workforce planning, says NAO

    2015-11-27T00:02:00Z

    Neither the Department of Health nor NHS England know how many GPs will be required to meet patient demand over the next five years due to a lack of reliable data, the National Audit Office has found.

  • Dark hospital corridor
    HSJ Local

    Staffs CCG to reduce minor injury unit opening times

    2015-11-26T12:21:00Z

    FINANCE: South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula Clinical Commissioning Group is to reduce the opening hours of two minor injury units to “free up” approximately £300,000 a year, it has announced.

  • Jeremy Hunt
    News

    Hunt agrees to Acas talks over junior doctors contract

    2015-11-25T15:40:00Z

    Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has agreed to talks with the British Medical Association through the mediation service Acas over a new junior doctors contract.

  • Savings must be found without any additional transitional finance to help establish new services
    HSJ Local

    West Midlands CCG enters financial recovery

    2015-11-23T13:19:00Z

    Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG initiates financial recovery process Commissioner fears it will not meet planned 1 per cent year-end surplus Normal 0 false false ...

  • News

    Junior doctors vote for strike action but call in Acas

    2015-11-19T11:30:00Z

    98 per cent of junior doctors vote in favour of strike action Chief medical officer says severity of strike action is a “step too far” BMA offers talks with government via conciliation body Acas Junior doctors have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over government plans to impose a ...

  • Caron Morton
    HSJ Local

    Shropshire CCG chief resigns

    2015-11-17T11:37:00Z

    WORKFORCE: Caron Morton has resigned as accountable officer of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group.

  • Ros Roughton
    News

    NHS England tells GPs delayed premises projects will get full funding

    2015-11-13T11:59:00Z

    NHS England has told GP leaders that building projects using money from the first tranche of a £1bn primary care infrastructure fund will be fully funded even if they are not completed by March.

  • Budget cuts
    News

    Midlands and East CCGs told to plan for admin budget cuts

    2015-11-12T13:05:00Z

    NHS England regional team advises CCGs to plan for 5 per cent “year on year” cuts to running cost budgets Midlands and East commissioners also asked to continue planning to keep a 1 per cent surplus NHS England has told clinical commissioning groups in the Midlands and East ...

  • Man smoking
    HSJ Local

    Trust to transfer public health services to social enterprise

    2015-11-11T10:38:00Z

    COMMERCIAL: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is planning to hive off a number of public health services to a newly created social enterprise.

  • Doctor with stethoscope
    HSJ Local

    ‘Super practice’ vanguard appointed to run A&E ‘front door’

    2015-11-09T10:13:00Z

    PRIMARY CARE: The primary care ‘super practice’ and vanguard site Lakeside Healthcare has begun triaging ambulatory patients who arrive at Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency department.