All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 186
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Hurricane heart
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsRevealed: Mass use of credit check firm to find NHS patients to charge
An NHS trust is routinely sharing patients’ identities with a major credit check firm to find overseas visitors who can be charged, and officials have sought to extend the scheme nationally, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNew burdens could wipe out public health grant uplift
New significant public health burdens could be imposed on councils, wiping out a promised real-terms increase in the public health grant next year.
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Expert Briefing‘About that bus…?’: Ministers’ tactics to see off threat of a Brexit drugs sell-off revealed
Welcome to the ‘About that bus…?’ weekly newsletter – giving you the inside track on how the fallout from Brexit is affecting the NHS at national and local level, edited by James Illman. Contact me in confidence.
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NewsIndependent review ordered at FT after claims of patient safety concerns
An independent review has been ordered into a hospital trust’s urology unit after patient safety concerns were put to an employment tribunal.
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HSJ LocalCCGs seek single exec after letter from regional director
The five mid and south Essex clinical commissioning groups have set out plans for a single accountable officer and executive team by April 2020.
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NewsNHS England sets playing field for digital GP providers
Digital-first GP providers will have to set up a clinic in most localities where they have patients, and will be denied entry to areas which already have enough doctors, under new rules adopted by NHS England.
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NewsRevealed: Government preparing for nurse funding U-turn
The government is gearing up to announce reforms of financial support for NHS student nurses – likely to include a major reversal in funding policy – to boost applications.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: The big bursary U-turn
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, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NewsRegulators tell trusts to ‘learn lessons’ from deaths in 2008 and 2012
NHS regulators have warned trusts to heed the learnings of an ombudsman report into the deaths of two patients, ahead of their own review into patient safety failings.
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NewsHealth and care world backs far-reaching NHS legislation
Patient, staff and NHS groups have joined with NHS England to ask government to put forward an “NHS integrated care bill”, which would scrap big chunks of the last major piece of health legislation.
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Could Brexit accelerate the integration agenda?
HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing is our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsRevealed: 275 jobs to go as NHS England and Improvement cut costs
NHS England and NHS Improvement will shed 654 posts under cost reduction plans revealed this morning.
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NewsHarding: Social care staff are priority for better pay over NHS
NHS Improvement’s chair has said the staff “in our health and social care system who are most underpaid are healthcare assistants working in social care, not [staff] in the NHS” - and that they should be prioritised in funding decisions.
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NewsLabour: ‘No chance’ of government passing NHSE’s legislation
The government “has got no chance of getting” NHS legislation – as proposed by NHS England – through Parliament, the shadow health secretary has said.
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NewsNew money to strengthen PCN nursing leadership
The chief nurse of England Ruth May has announced new plans to strengthen nursing leadership in the NHS in a keynote speech today.
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Expert BriefingNew NHS finance regime will spotlight struggling trusts
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsCoroners warn city’s patients at risk from communication failure
Patients experiencing a mental health crisis in Birmingham are at risk as the police, mental health trust and the city council are not working together or communicating, coroners have warned.
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HSJ LocalDeparting CEO received £53k overtime payment
A chief executive who sent a shock resignation letter to staff earlier this month received overtime pay of around £53,000 last year.
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NewsTroubled trust no longer rated ‘inadequate’
One of the NHS’ most troubled trusts has moved out of the “inadequate” Care Quality Commission rating.