All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 260
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NewsMapped: STP ratings, finances and system performance
Exploring STPs’ ratings, leadership, finances, emergency care performance and delayed transfers.
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NewsNHS England names 'ineffective' medicines for savings drive
NHS England is to consult over limiting the prescription of “low value” products costing £141m a year including homeopathy and herbal medicines.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: From cash flow holes to workforce woes
This is HSJ’s new fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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NewsLagging STPs are still in line for capital funds, says Swindells
STPs rated in the bottom two categories today are still in need of, and in contention for, additional capital funding in coming years, Matthew Swindells has said.
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NewsNHS trusts' spending grew faster than GPs' in 2016-17
Current spending on general practice grew by 2 per cent in 2016-17 – the largest cash terms increase in several years, but less than NHS trusts and almost flat in real terms – annual accounts suggest.
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NewsRevealed: First ratings of all 44 STPs
STPs have been publicly rated for the first time, with five labelled outstanding and five placed in the lowest category of “needs most improvement”.
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NewsLord Darzi weighs in to 'utterly astonishing' specialist trust row
Professor Lord Ara Darzi has weighed into the row over the future of specialist services in England.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Healthy headline but NHS is still in the woods
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ Local
Largest CCG faces £178m deficit by end of the year
A clinical commissioning group that is under legal directions is set to add £57m to its spiralling cumulative deficit in 2017-18.
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NewsRevealed: 'Strongest' STPs share £325m of new investment
National leaders have announced which health economies will receive a share of the £325m of extra capital funding that was pledged to the NHS in the spring budget.
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NewsDH reports underspend of £563m
The Department of Health has reported an underspend of £563m for 2016-17, but auditors said it was still “some way from achieving financial sustainability”.
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NewsRegulators told to raise manager pay to close 'significant' gender pay gap
Pay increases for senior managers at the NHS arm’s length bodies should be used to reverse a widening gender pay gap, the Senior Salaries Review Body has said.
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NewsNew interim chair of NHS Improvement named
A former director general at the Department of Health has been appointed as interim chair of NHS Improvement.
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HSJ LocalSpecialist hospital could relocate to teaching trust site
A specialist hospital threatened with losing services by a national shake-up of heart surgery services could move to a site owned by another London trust.
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NewsFirst accountable care system managing director revealed
An NHS England director has been appointed to the first managing director post of an “accountable care system”.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: STPs, busy being born or busy dying?
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsStevens: NHS could create new national 'council' to share decision making
The NHS England chief executive wants to create a standing group of national and local health leaders so “the national bodies and frontline NHS leaders… can better connect and align”.
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NewsStevens: Capped expenditure areas must 'get on with' savings
The NHS England chief executive has said organisations in the capped expenditure process “need to get on with” making planned savings, with the current search for further “hard choices” completed in most of them.
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NewsExclusive: NHS to recruit 2,000 GPs from abroad
NHS England will seek to recruit around 2,000 GPs from overseas, representing a huge expansion of previous efforts, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsJeremy Hunt signs off changes to 'dysfunctional' ambulance targets
A shake-up of “dysfunctional” ambulance response times has been approved by the health secretary today.