All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 295
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Exclusive: Stevens casts doubt over NHS devolution outside Manchester
“Probably not many” areas beyond Greater Manchester will take on devolved health budgets, says NHS England chief Simon Stevens says “a lot of work” still needed before Cornwall is ready Integration of NHS and social care unrealistic without a “viable social care funding proposition” Simon Stevens has said ...
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Social care and public health funding is 'unresolved business'
Test for government on public health will be judged in childhood obesity strategy Social care funding is ’unresolved business’ NHS should expect no additional funding growth until after 2018-19 Two of Simon Stevens’ “five tests” for the spending review have not yet been met, he has told HSJ. ...
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Stevens reveals 'radical' rewriting of financial balance rules
Some NHS organisations will be exempt from requirements to meet their own budget target, as long as they do so across their health economy, under “radical” new financial rules for 2016-17.
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Supplements
Roundtable: Jeremy Hunt's HSJ annual lecture debated
CCG ratings dominated the headlines after Jeremy Hunt’s HSJ annual lecture – but experts who convened to discuss its implications were far more interested in his vision of powerful patients, reports Claire Read
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NHS England to publish CCG conflict of interest audit
NHS England commissions audit into how CCGs co-commissisoning primary care manage conflicts of interest Updated statutory guidance on conflicts of interest to be published in April, MPs told NHS England will publish an independent audit into how potential conflicts of interest among clinical commissioning groups co-commissioning primary care ...
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Is Southern Health a one-off? Ministers have no way of knowing
The leaked Southern Health review exposed a gap of knowledge about quality of care. Shaun Lintern asks whether the problem is limited to only one trust
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HSJ Local
Greater Manchester GPs asked to be 'early adopters' of new contract
WORKFORCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester want their GPs to become an “early adopters” of the government’s new contract.
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Patient group fears national clinical director cut
Neurological Alliance warns NHS England against “removal or demotion” of national clinical director for adult neurology Charity also urges it to protect intelligence network and strategic clinical networks for neurology HSJ revealed last month that NHS England is considering cuts to 23 director roles If NHS England cuts ...
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NHS England former head of leadership faces jail after fraud
NHS England’s former head of leadership is facing jail after admitting his part in a multimillion pound fraud.
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PMS 'stock take' will show which practices face funding 'cliff edge'
Stock take will assess PMS reviews across country And identify whether practices face big drops Commitment to keep PMS funding in primary care and each locality is maintained An NHS England “stock take” of reviews of personal medical services GP contracts will uncover whether any practices will face a destabilising ...
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NHS England signs off 90 digital roadmap groups
NHS England approves 90 groups to map out how local health economies will be paperless at the point of care by 2020 52 of the groups involve one CCG bringing together its providers within its borders; 38 involve multiple CCGs Public Health England chief knowledge officer John Newton to ...
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Technology £1bn could be tied to free wi-fi goal, Kelsey predicts
Tim Kelsey “predicts” NHS organisations should commit to making their estate free wi-fi zones if they want share of CSR £1bn Outgoing NHS England director tells National Information Board summit free wi-fi could be “a core standard requirement/opportunity” NHS organisations should commit to making their estates free wi-fi ...
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Lane-Fox tells ministers one in 10 GP patients ‘should use online services by 2017’
At least 10 per cent of GP patients should be using digital services by 2017, says DH commissioned review Baroness Lane-Fox outlines proposals to increase use of digital innovations in the NHS NHS England to consider targets to get patients using online services in GP contracts At least ...
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Exclusive: Increase expected in national tariff rate
Increase expected in tariff rates for the first time in several years Providers may get additional, organisation specific savings targets NHS England to decide details of local health economy transformation fund National tariff prices are set to be increased in 2016-17 for the first time in several years, ...
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Exclusive: Swindells to join NHS England as national operations director
Matthew Swindells to join NHS England as national director of commissioning operations and information Will take up the senior post in “late spring” Dame Barbara Hakin retires at the end of this month. Richard Barker, NHS England regional director for the North, to be interim. Matthew Swindells, a ...
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FT chief named as NHS England urgent and emergency care lead
Pauline Philip, chief executive of Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust, is joining NHS England on secondment as national urgent and emergency care director.
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HSJ Local
Possible legal challenge over better care fund millions
Council calls for CCG to release £2.3m payment for performance element of fund CCG withholding payment to council “in line with the national guidance” Auditors found “no evidence” that funds provided for additional adult social care “has been used for this purpose” FINANCE: Wiltshire Council could make a ...
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Push for private sector to tackle endoscopy backlog delayed
Accreditation issues slow the take-up of independent sector endoscopy services Mobile private capacity could be used in areas where there is no existing capacity Five trusts responsible for four-fifths of long waiters, latest quarterly data shows NHS providers’ attempts to deal with an endoscopy backlog by putting work ...
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GPs warned to prepare for cuts to rent payments
GP practices in high value areas could face large cuts to notional rent payments from NHS England, surveyors warn NHS England preparing to change the way it calculates premises payments GP practices have been advised to set aside a proportion of the “notional rent” they receive from NHS ...
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Exclusive: NHS England attempts to halt judicial review in drug funding row
NHS England faces threat of judicial review over refusal to fund treatment for teenager DH and NHS England are funding Xyrem for hundreds of other narcolepsy patients Lawyers argue the decision is unlawful and discriminatory NHS England has asked doctors to resubmit a bid for funding to treat ...