All Simon Stevens articles – Page 36
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NHS England takes action against financially troubled CCGs
FINANCE: NHS England has imposed legal directions on two clinical commissioning groups after they built up large deficits.
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NewsExclusive: Prime minister intervened in NHS England drug decisions
The prime minister intervened in NHS England’s consideration of funding for drugs to treat several rare conditions with a letter to its chief executive, HSJ has learned.
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CommentWe need clarity around how competition law will affect new care models
The integration agenda
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NewsFirst eight urgent and emergency care vanguards revealed
The first wave of urgent and emergency care vanguard sites has been revealed by NHS England.
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NewsEights lessons from MPs' quizzing of Simon Stevens
How heroic efficiency savings will be made, being assertive, and underwear sales: the key points from Simon Stevens, Sir Bruce Keogh and Jane Cummings’ answers to Commons health committee questions on Tuesday.
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NewsKeogh: New research confirms 'weekend effect' on mortality
NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh will shortly publish research showing a ‘weekend effect’ in NHS services including higher mortality, he told MPs today.
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NewsCCGs expected to fund 2.3 per cent rise in emergency activity
Clinical commissioning groups are expected to fund a 2.3 per cent increase in emergency activity this year compared to 2014-15, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsCancer commissioning overhaul could save 30,000 lives
The NHS can save 30,000 more lives a year by overhauling cancer commissioning and treatment funding, a national taskforce has said.
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NewsNHS can be 'world leader' on patient safety, say healthcare leaders
The NHS can be a ‘world leader’ in many areas of patient safety but only if it starts taking immediate action to improve, healthcare leaders have said in a report published by HSJ today.
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SupplementsTop chief executives roundtable: The new, post-election era brings new questions
The first of three panel discussions
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NewsExclusive: Barbara Hakin to retire
NHS England national commissioning operations director Dame Barbara Hakin is to retire by the end of the year.
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NewsStevens sets out NHS devolution 'tests'
Councils hoping to gain Greater Manchester style devolved powers over health and social care must convince NHS England that the benefits of the move would go beyond integration of the two services, the body’s chief executive has said.
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NewsLamb: £22bn NHS efficiency savings ‘virtually impossible’
The plan for £22bn efficiency savings outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View are ‘virtually impossible’ to achieve, a former health minister has said.
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CommentShortsighted public health cut makes a mockery of prevention rhetoric
It will damage the NHS
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NewsFrancis criticises NHS England safe staffing intervention
Sir Robert Francis has expressed serious concerns over NHS England’s decision to suspend the work he recommended to determine safe staffing guidelines.
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