All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 130
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CommentAre people falling through the gaps in cancer care?
Macmillan Cancer Support’s executive director of Advocacy & Communications, Steven McIntosh, discusses Macmillan’s new research into the importance of delivering personalised, integrated care for people living with cancer
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The future isn’t what it used to be
Andy Cowper shares his insights on the hot topics of the past week.
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CommentHancock will face difficult questions over his power grab to stop ‘NHSE games’
The NHS bill due to land in Parliament before the summer break will be the first for nearly 10 years, so will address various overdue changes and is certain to be significant.
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NewsIntegrated care systems could have two leadership boards
The government’s draft plans for new NHS legislation would create two leadership boards within an integrated care system, in a change to the proposals laid out by NHS England last year.
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NewsNew NHS bill could allow for professional regulation of senior managers
The government is planning new powers that could mean senior NHS managers are subject to professional regulation in the future, according to draft legislative proposals.
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NewsGovernment plans new powers over NHS reconfigurations and ALB functions
The Department of Health and Social Care is planning new powers to intervene in local NHS reconfigurations and to give itself greater flexibility over abolishing and transferring functions between national health bodies.
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NewsMerging trusts seek digital investment with ‘40 new hospitals’ funds
Two acute and community trusts are considering spending part of their government-funded estates cash on a major digital transformation project, amid plans to merge into one organisation.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Scandal in the Midlands
This week we look at Rebecca Thomas’ investigation into “heartbreaking” patient safety incidents in University Hospitals Birmingham FT’s haematology services. HSJ’s involvement began after Rebecca was contacted by more whistleblowers than had ever got in touch with her previously about any subject.
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NewsRevealed: The local health systems leading the vaccination race
London is ahead of other regions in the delivery of covid vaccines to people aged between 70 and 74, but is still lagging significantly behind in older cohorts.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: No vaccine for burnout
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsCCG blasts NHS England’s ‘significant lack of insight’ in legislation plan
A clinical commissioning group has told NHS England its proposal to abolish CCGs shows a “significant lack of insight” and could “distract from, rather than support, the other changes and progress which are needed”.
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NewsRevealed: The 17 trusts still at 200pc or more of intensive care capacity
At least 17 hospital trusts still have at least twice the number of critical care patients than their total capacity last winter, with some falling very slowly, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsScandal-hit trust moved to change auditor when accounts were challenged, report suggests
A major acute trust at the heart of an “unprecedented” financial breakdown moved to change its external auditor after the firm challenged its accounting practices, a new report suggests.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The Altiplano
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsICS criticised for ‘poor relationships’ and NHS leaders ‘jumping to Stevens’ commands’
A review of a health system deemed to be among the most advanced in terms of partnership working has discovered poor relationships and a lack of trust between partners.
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NewsExclusive: Capital’s GP leaders challenge NHSE over mass vaccination centres
GP leaders in London have complained to NHS England about their ‘inadequate’ covid-19 vaccine supplies, and expressed fears that these are being diverted to prioritise mass vaccination sites.
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NewsNHSE ‘should publish real-time data on staff vaccine uptake by ethnicity’
“Live, real-time” data on covid-19 vaccine uptake by ethnicity — including about NHS staff — should be published, the director of a new race observatory has said.
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NewsRevealed: £35m government plan for covid mortuaries
The government’s expected spend on mortuary capacity for people who have died with covid-19 has increased more than 50 per cent since September.
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NewsLong-awaited A&E reconfiguration runs into covid troubles
A long-anticipated public consultation in the South East could be further delayed because of the covid pandemic.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Jab, jab, jab
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.