All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 279
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HSJ Local
Southern Health to be split up but chief executive stays on
Southern Health Foundation Trust’s learning disability services in Oxfordshire to transfer to Oxford Health Foundation Trust Interim chair Tim Smart says “other changes will occur” at troubled trust Chief executive Katrina Percy will stay on but her focus will switch from operational matters to strategy STRUCTURE: Southern Health ...
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HSJ Local
Bristol heart review finds 'no evidence' of 1990s failures being repeated
Children’s heart services review finds outcomes at University Hospitals Bristol “broadly comparable” with other centres However, parents sometimes “let down”, nursing staff “regularly under pressure” and managers took “unnecessarily defensive position” NHS England to publish plans for reconfigured congenital heart disease services next week PATIENT SAFETY: The independent ...
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Expert Briefing
Deep South: Farewell to Andrew Ridley
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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News
Troubled CCGs spent hundreds of thousands on interim directors
CCGs in legal directions have each spent hundreds of thousands of pounds turnaround directors and other senior roles NHS England served directions to a number of CCGs in 2015-16 Groups say they have to appoint executives quickly as part of process NEW Devon spent £335,000 on off-payroll turnaround director ...
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HSJ Local
CCG 'disappointed' to be given legal directions by NHS England
PERFORMANCE: A London clinical commissioning group has become the second CCG to be given legal directions by NHS England this year, over waiting times performance in its health economy.
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Intervention in NHS finance, and concerns raised by CIPFA
Your essential update on the week in health
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Leader
A firestorm of uncertainty now menaces the NHS
The greatest tragedy of the European Union referendum is that many people voted Leave in the sincere hope it would help the NHS by reducing demand. That is extremely unlikely, but in any case the other consequences of the result leave the service facing the grimmest set of scenarios since ...
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News
Brexit: How the political fallout will affect the NHS
HSJ considers how the political fallout from the vote to leave the European Union will effect the NHS in the next few months and beyond.
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News
Keogh: We must make EU NHS staff feel welcome and valued
The NHS’s most senior doctor, Sir Bruce Keogh, has called on NHS leaders to send out a message to European staff working in the health service that they are valued and welcome in the wake of Friday’s vote for the UK to leave the EU.
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HSJ Local
NHS England regional director appointed trust chief executive
APPOINTMENT: A large community healthcare trust has appointed an NHS England regional director as its new chief executive.
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News
Revealed: Funding for each success regime area
Funding for success regimes largely spent on consultants, legal advice and establishing small core programme teams Sources tell HSJ funding is welcome but “modest” compared to challenges the areas face NHS England has allocated just over £20m to the three areas in the national success regime programme to ...
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News
NHS England director admits 'work to do' to fix STP and digital plans mismatch
Senior NHS England director says work needed to align STP and local digital roadmap areas Comments follow warnings that digital roadmap plans could become “sideshow” to STPs A senior NHS England director has said work needs to be done to align the “mismatch” between the geographical areas covered ...
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News
Southern CCGs join leadership and target merger
Two clinical commissioning groups in south of England have joined their leadership and plan to merge if they are permitted to, they have told HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: More good CCGs will merge than bad ones
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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Comment
HSJ is wrong to say we should reorganise CCGs
CCGs will continue to play a vital role and talk about reorganisation is unhelpful, argues Graham Jackson
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Something wicked this way comes
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings, and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ Knowledge
Dispatches from the frontline
HSJ was joined by some leading experts to explore their progress towards creating new models of care
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Suspension, validation and a surprise admonishment
What is going on in England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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News
Winners and losers of specialist radiotherapy contracts revealed
NHS England announces seven year contracts for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy Change aims to increase access to services and cutting per patient cost of treatments East and North Hertfordshire Trust to be decommissioned NHS England has announced which organisations have won contracts under its overhaul of specialist radiotherapy ...
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News
Exclusive: NHS finance directors pressured to agree 'unsustainable' targets
Finance directors under pressure to agree “unsustainable” control totals says CIPFA Leaked letter warns “unfounded optimism” will make future financial management difficult Department of Health accounts many not match those of NHS organisations NHS finance directors are being pressured to agree to “fundamentally unsustainable” financial targets for 2016-17, ...