All Steve Field articles – Page 3
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NewsNicholson: More funding will be linked to quality
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has revealed that more of providers’ income will be linked to quality and innovation next year.
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NewsRevised NHS Constitution emphasises staff rights and 'duty of candour'
A planned revision to the NHS constitution would place a stronger emphasis on creating a “supportive open culture” among staff, ahead of the Francis report into failings in care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsConstitution review set to promote compassion and evidence-based commissioning
A government-commissioned review is likely to recommend all new nurses and healthcare assistants are screened for their values and ability to be compassionate.
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NewsSteve Field appointed to NHS Commissioning Board
Steve Field and Keith Willett have been appointed to senior positions on the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: Poor patients face shorter GP opening hours
The number of GP practices paid to offer longer opening hours dropped sharply last year, an HSJ investigation has revealed. The fall was particularly steep in poorer areas.
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NewsGovernment launches NHS Constitution review
The government is today launching a review of the NHS Constitution, part of which will be carried out by a new NHS Future Forum group.
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NewsTrusts rewarded with 'quality premium' under Future Forum plan
Trusts’ budgets will be top-sliced to fund a “quality premium” for organisations providing high quality training for NHS staff, under a proposal in a government-commissioned report.
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NewsField's Future Forum report to call for GPs to move into 'bigger organisations'
NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has called for GPs to work in “federations or in bigger organisations”, and to focus on integration of services, ahead of the publication of the review group’s advice to the government.
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NewsCommissioners and providers seek move to long-term contracts
Both commissioners and providers are calling for a “fundamental shift” towards long-term contracts of more than five years to allow for better strategic planning, the Future Forum has heard.
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NewsNew Future Forum guidance calls for tariff 'flexibilities'
The NHS Future Forum has today published an interim set of recommendations intended to influence the NHS Operating Framework for 2012-13, which is due to be published next week.
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NewsNHS facing 'tsunami' of patient anger
A “tsunami of anger” is heading towards the NHS unless organisations start to engage more fully with the public, the chairman of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has warned.
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NewsGovernment hits back over BMA 'high risk reform' claims
A call by the British Medical Association for the government to withdraw or further amend its health reforms, which they say pose an “unacceptably high risk to the NHS”, has been described as “disappointing” by the DH.
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NewsFuture Forum adds integrating care as priority
Integration within and across the health and social care sectors has been named a new priority area for the NHS Future Forum, whose second phase of work was launched by the prime minister last week.
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NewsNew set of listening exercise questions unveiled
Key questions for NHS stakeholders to consider as part of the second round of the government’s listening exercise have been unveiled by the Department of Health.
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NewsExclusive: David Cameron launches second phase of NHS reform listening exercise
Prime minister David Cameron will today launch the latest stage in the listening exercise designed to inform the development of the government’s NHS reforms.
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NewsField: clinical senates a 'hand grenade' to GP consultant relations
Clinical senates were designed to act as a “hand grenade” to remove barriers preventing GPs and hospital doctors talking, not “another level of bureaucracy”, Professor Steve Field has said.
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NewsFuture Forum chair warns small CCGs they will have to merge
Many clinical commissioning groups are currently “too small to survive”, NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has warned.