All West Midlands articles – Page 41

  • Birmingham
    HSJ Local

    Acute trust looks to be lead provider in Midlands MCP

    2016-08-22T07:39:00Z

    Sandwell and West Birmingham chief executive says trust would look to be lead provider within vanguard The organisational form Modality MCP will take is still unclear, says Toby Lewis Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust working with Your Health Partnership to take on GP consultants STRUCTURE: The chief executive ...

  • Claire Murdoch
    News

    Talks under way for more mental health care model pilots

    2016-08-19T07:00:00Z

    Talks are already under way to create more pilot sites to take on new commissioning powers and develop models of care for tertiary mental health services, HSJ can reveal.

  • Birmingham
    News

    Exclusive: Birmingham CCGs plan to merge by April 2018

    2016-08-17T07:00:00Z

    Three Birmingham CCGs to merge by April 2018 CCGs will form a “joint commissioning board” from October The board will appoint a single “transitional chair” Three Birmingham clinical commissioning groups are planning to merge in April 2018, HSJ understands.

  • Barts
    News

    Major acute trusts already forecasting to miss control totals

    2016-08-15T07:00:00Z

    Some of the largest hospital trusts in England are already struggling to meet their financial target for 2016-17, according to analysis by HSJ.

  • David Williams
    Expert Briefing

    What's new in care models: Keeping GPs onside

    2016-08-09T11:39:00Z

    Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View, by integration reporter David Williams.

  • Ambulance
    News

    16 CCGs launch integrated NHS 111 and urgent care services

    2016-08-03T12:19:00Z

    Sixteen West Midlands CCGs launch integrated NHS 111 and out of hours service Care UK to deliver NHS 111 services across the region Seven urgent care providers have formed an alliance agreement to integrate with 111 services Patients can access social care through new 111 service Sixteen West ...

  • Sarah-Jane Marsh
    HSJ Local

    Birmingham trusts hope to merge 'early next year'

    2016-07-29T11:58:00Z

    STRUCTURE: The boards of Birmingham Women’s Foundation Trust and Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust have formally agreed to merge the organisations.

  • York
    News

    Yorkshire 'inadequate' CCG appoints new chief officer

    2016-07-29T11:07:00Z

    A struggling clinical commissioning group in Yorkshire, put in “financial special measures” last week, has appointed a new accountable officer.

  • News

    NHS England forecasting first ever overspend

    2016-07-27T11:58:00Z

    Overall commissioning budget forecast to be overspent for the first time There was a £599m underspend in 2015-16, which helped DH avoid a formal parliamentary process to ask for more money CCGs reported a combined £57m overspend for the first quarter of the financial year The overall NHS ...

  • Surgery
    News

    Wide variation found in emergency specialist surgery mortality rates

    2016-07-27T07:00:00Z

    Thirty day mortality rates for emergency bowel surgery vary between 20.7pc and 3.2pc at best and worst performing hospitals Quarter of hospitals do not admit high risk patients to critical care post-surgery in recommended timeframe Six per cent annual drop in most urgent patients reaching theatre within two hours ...

  • Waiting room
    News

    Analysis: CCGs with biggest increases and decreases in GP access

    2016-07-25T12:16:00Z

    Bexley CCG sees biggest increase in patients unable to get GP appointments Most improved group on access to appointments was Slough CCG Recruitment cited as most common problem by CCGs HSJ analysis has identified the clinical commissioning groups with greatest improvements and biggest declines in patient access to ...

  • Test tubes
    HSJ Knowledge

    How we created a better service for people living with Behçet’s syndrome

    2016-07-25T07:00:00Z

    One stop clinics that enable timely diagnosis and treatment are improving services for people who have this auto inflammatory condition

  • Croydon skyline
    News

    NHS England moves CCGs to 'single commissioning structures’

    2016-07-21T13:11:00Z

    “Single commissioning leadership structures” will be introduced in two parts of the country by NHS England as part of a new “financial special measures regime” for clinical commissioning groups.

  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    News

    Mapped: The trusts and CCGs in new special measures regime

    2016-07-21T11:09:00Z

    NHS Improvement and NHS England have launched a new financial special measures regime for trusts and clinical commissioning groups which are not meeting their performance commitments.

  • contract
    News

    MCP plan poses 'significant risks to trust’s future', says chief executive

    2016-07-20T12:17:00Z

    Dudley Group chief executive criticises Dudley CCG’s plans to put MCP contract out to tender Vanguard trust worried about “financial and clinical” future should it lose revenue to new MCP provider PFI commitments could become “unaffordable” unless MCP takes on risk, says trust The chief executive of Dudley ...

  • David Williams
    Expert Briefing

    What's new in care models: Procuring an MCP

    2016-07-19T12:17:00Z

    Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View, by integration reporter David Williams.

  • London
    News

    Six areas take on new mental health commissioning powers

    2016-07-19T00:01:00Z

    Six areas chosen to take on new commissioning powers for tertiary mental health services Providers were invited to submit bids to NHS England by the middle of June A key aim of the pilot is to reduce the number of patients going to out of area beds Six ...

  • depression_mental_health_elderly_man
    News

    Midlands trust warned over 'unsafe' mental health wards

    2016-07-15T10:26:00Z

    CQC finds some hospital wards run by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust “did not provide a safe environment” Finds “high level of use” of face-down restraint despite CQC warnings from 2014 Trust says it has “moved very quickly” to address any risks posed to patients QUALITY: Eleven ...

  • community nurse with patient
    News

    Vanguard CCG to start procurement for multi-billion MCP contract

    2016-07-15T07:00:00Z

    Dudley CCG set outs procurement timetable for MCP contract worth £244m a year MCP contract not expected to be operational until April 2018 32 per cent of services within the contract scope currently provided by Dudley Group Foundation Trust MCP will be a “single legal entity” holding one ...

  • Cardiac surgery
    News

    Three trusts set to lose specialist heart surgery

    2016-07-08T00:01:00Z

    NHS England announces winners and losers in which trusts provide congenital heart defect services Central Manchester, Royal Brompton and Leicester set to have work transferred to other sites Swathe of trust to cease “occasional” procedures after NHS England sets out new standards Work follows 15 years of conflict between ...