All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 11
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Managers’ regulation long overdue but watch out for unintended consequences
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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News‘Don’t buy Epic’ unless it integrates with NHS App, says government adviser
The NHS should no longer do business with leading tech supplier Epic unless future iterations of its technology work with the NHS App, a senior government adviser has warned.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Targets and terror and tech
This week’s podcast looks at whose job it is to oversee England’s over-mighty provider sector, plus the new world coming into view on technology.
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NewsTrust ‘support and admin staff’ targeted for cuts in 2025-26 by NHSE
NHS England will hold discussions with every trust about the potential for cutting of its non-clinical workforce early next year.
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NewsExclusive: Government steps back from pledge to hit A&E target
The government has refused to reaffirm its pledge to return the NHS to hitting the four-hour A&E standard by the end of this parliament after a spokesman admitted to HSJ “we cannot do everything at once”.
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NewsStarmer rejects the need for trade-offs to hit elective care target
Making the recovery of elective care a priority does not give the NHS “permission” to allow “everything else [to] suffer”, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned.
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NewsNHS enters winter with ambulance delays almost double those in 2023
The time spent by ambulances stuck outside A&Es waiting to hand over patients has nearly doubled since last year, the first NHS “winter situation report” has revealed.
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NewsRegulation ‘chilling effect’ could ‘increase fear’ for NHS managers
Regulating managers could have a “chilling effect” dissuading people from taking up challenging roles, and cause risk aversion to difficult decisions, the government has acknowledged.
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NewsGP refusing to join PCN wins court battle with NHS England
A judge has ruled a GP’s contract should not have been terminated after he refused to join a primary care network, in a legal dispute with NHS England.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Making a difference this winter
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Directors on the stand over Letby’s murders
This week, the podcast looks at accountability in the NHS and the Thirlwall Inquiry.
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NewsLong-serving CEO retires from trust with big savings target
Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust’s chief executive will retire in the spring, the provider has confirmed.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Fantasy and reality in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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HSJ PartnersEnhancing cost certainty for NHS capital projects with Daisy: A digital AI and sustainability tool
The new government’s focus is firmly on fixing the NHS, increasing productivity by 2 per cent year-on-year, reducing the current repairs backlog of just under £13.8bn and creating a step change in the NHS’s overall capital budget through a £3.1bn increase for 2024-2025. It is therefore of utmost importance to ...
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NewsBig teaching trusts put under extra NHSE ‘oversight’
Four trusts – including three of England’s largest teaching hospital trusts – are now receiving extra “oversight” from NHS England, after being put into the lowest tier of providers for cancer and/or elective care performance.
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NewsNHSE to pay consultancy £4m for ‘more support’ for EPR rollout
NHS England has extended its contract with a consultancy firm to support the rollout of electronic patient records, increasing the value by £4m.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Named and shamed
This week, the podcast looks at the fallout from a lively NHS Providers conference.
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NewsExperts hired to review service with huge waits
NHS England has named 11 members of an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) taskforce, eight months after it first announced the group.
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News‘Racist and misogynistic’ behaviour called out by regulator
A teaching trust has been warned it could see resident doctors removed unless it addresses a raft of concerns, including racist and misogynistic behaviour.
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NewsGovernment spend controls causing ‘considerable’ delays to ‘critical’ contracts
Government spending rules are causing “considerable” delays to the signing of “critical contracts” and “interrupting” patient care, NHS procurement leads have warned.