All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 259
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HSJ LocalInadequate CCG moves to join with council
Plans for a single commissioning body to span health and social care in Somerset have been announced.
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: Noise about NHS pay masks deeper problems
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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NewsNHS England plans national 'core software' deal to patch cyber holes
NHS England will seek substantial new capital funding for cybersecurity in the wake on the WannaCry ransonware attack, Matthew Swindells has revealed.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Outstanding trust but STP is bottom of the class
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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Exclusive: All trusts will buy new IT via NHS 'exemplars'
NHS England has revealed funding for the next wave of global digital exemplars, which will compete to deploy new IT systems to the rest of the NHS.
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HSJ LocalCCGs move closer to controversial A&E reconfiguration
Commissioners in the West Midlands want to move to public consultation on the controversial reconfiguration of acute services in Shropshire, following months of delays.
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NewsExclusive: Harvard and Imperial among universities to run NHS Digital Academy
A consortium of Imperial College, Harvard and Edinburgh universities will run a new academy to improve digital skills across the NHS.
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NewsNew BMA chief issues warning over CCG restructures
The current reorganisation of commissioning structures risks disrupting management support for GP practices, the BMA’s new lead GP has said.
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NewsGovernment promises 20,000 new posts in mental health
Government pledges 21,000 new mental health posts by 2020-21 Health secretary Jeremy Hunt launches the long-awaited mental health workforce strategy The strategy promises 21,000 new posts, including thousands of more psychiatrists and mental health nurses The government today announced it would create 21,000 new posts in the mental ...
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NewsNHS England regional director to step down
An NHS England regional director has announced her departure this autumn, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalFinancially challenged CCG must not get 'distracted', says outgoing chief
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, one of England’s largest commissioners, must not get “distracted” by designing new structures following its improved rating, its outgoing chief officer has warned.
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NewsExclusive: New top doctors' leader warns over 'softening' of waiting targets
One of the UK’s top medical leaders has warned over the ‘softening’ of waiting list targets, in the first interview in her new post.
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NewsCCGs face 'impossible' choices to deliver higher savings targets
Local commissioners must deliver efficiency savings of almost 4 per cent to meet their financial targets this year, despite failing to get close to last year’s target of 3.2 per cent.
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HSJ LocalCCGs abandon £535m flagship prime provider contract
A tender worth half a billion pounds for end of life care services in Staffordshire has been abandoned due to the development of the area’s STP and difficulties, satisfying the new national scrutiny process, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England delay 'denies patients access to life saving treatment'
Patients are being denied access to heart treatments that could prevent strokes or save lives after an NHS England project was delayed, a charity has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalCCG leaders step down amid NHS England investigation
Two senior clinical commissioning group leaders have stepped down, and the CCG is being investigated by NHS England, it has emerged.
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NewsRichards: NHS must protect waiting times and access to treatment
The NHS must protect waiting times for planned treatment and maintain access to evidence based care despite ongoing austerity, the outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has insisted.
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NewsNHS England director accused of voyeurism resigns
NHS England has confirmed Jonathan Fielden, its former national director of specialised commissioning, who is being investigated by police on suspicion of voyeurism, has resigned from the organisation.
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NewsPrescription changes would worsen health inequalities, warns BMA
The chair of the British Medical Association’s prescribing subcommittee has called for politicians to lead on changes to NHS prescriptions, which he claims could worsen health inequalities.
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NewsNew CCG ratings revealed
Overall ratings have been published of clinical commissioning groups for 2016-17, with double the number rated “outstanding” as the previous year.