All articles by Dave West – Page 33
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NewsExclusive: CQC airs prospect of 'more light touch' regulation
The Care Quality Commission will begin considering whether it should move to ‘more light touch’ regulation later this year, the chief inspector of general practice has told HSJ.
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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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HSJ LocalMajor teaching hospital names new chief executive
STRUCTURE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust has named its new permanent chief executive following the depature of Tim Smart.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: CCG plans handover to 'accountable care organisation'
A clinical commissioning group is proposing to hand its budget and nearly all its functions to a provider led ‘accountable care organisation’, in what could be a first in the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt says hospital chief found ‘fit and proper’
The health secretary has said that a hospital chief executive has been assessed as ‘fit and proper’, after regulators considered a series of serious concerns against him.
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NewsExclusive: Devolved authorities could 'share' NHS functions
Combined authorities could ‘jointly’ hold NHS powers, instead of them being removed from government or health service bodies entirely, under government devolution plans, HSJ has learned.
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CommentThese people tell the tale of where clinical leadership stands today
Priory GroupThis celebration has become a firm fixture in our calendar
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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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NewsMonitor and TDA to join under new chief
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are to work much more closely together and under a single leader, with a new chief executive due to be appointed by the end of the summer.
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NewsKeogh: 'Quality should define finance' for chief execs
The NHS England medical director has said the quality agenda ‘should define the financial strategy’ for NHS chief executives, amid growing pressure to make cost savings.
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NewsBehan: CQC must ensure trusts balance quality and finance
Boards need to move from “putting all their investment into quality and safety” to achieving a better “balance” with financial success, the chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has said.
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NewsTwo key waiting time targets abolished
Two headline waiting times targets for planned care are being dropped by the NHS on the basis they are creating ‘perverse incentives’, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFirst three troubled areas to be put into 'success regime'
Simon Stevens has confirmed the three areas to be the first put into a new whole health economy ‘success regime’.
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NewsStevens promises tougher line on struggling CCGs
The responsibilities of severely struggling clinical commissioning groups could be passed to other CCGs, local authorities or “integrated providers”, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsCancer care funding faces overhaul
Cancer services should be funded via population-based payments to networks and lead providers, the NHS England chief executive has said.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Five things to expect from Confed week
NHS top dogs are poised to spring their post-election priorities on the service, while the more lowly exchange anxieties, advice and cynicism. It will all be happening at the NHS Confederation conference. Here are five themes we can expect to feature.
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NewsExclusive: Slowdown in prevention of early deaths - funding may be the cause
National officials have identified a stalling of improvement in the prevention of premature deaths by the English health service, with one potential cause being the NHS’s “economic challenges”.
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NewsWhat does it mean for the NHS? Five takes on the election outcome
With the Conservative Party confounding polls and expectations to win a majority in the Commons, many will already be working to revise their expectations of what the next five years might hold for the health service.