All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 295

  • Simon Stevens
    News

    Exclusive: Stevens casts doubt over NHS devolution outside Manchester

    2015-12-14T08:00:00Z

    “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 ...

  • Exercise
    News

    Social care and public health funding is 'unresolved business'

    2015-12-14T08:00:00Z

    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. ...

  • Calculator
    News

    Stevens reveals 'radical' rewriting of financial balance rules

    2015-12-14T08:00:00Z

    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.

  • Alastair McLellan
    Supplements

    Roundtable: Jeremy Hunt's HSJ annual lecture debated

    2015-12-14T07:00:00Z

    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

  • Waiting room
    News

    NHS England to publish CCG conflict of interest audit

    2015-12-11T15:30:00Z

    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 ...

  • Shaun Lintern
    Comment

    Is Southern Health a one-off? Ministers have no way of knowing

    2015-12-11T12:15:00Z

    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

  • Manchester
    HSJ Local

    Greater Manchester GPs asked to be 'early adopters' of new contract

    2015-12-11T11:14:00Z

    WORKFORCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester want their GPs to become an “early adopters” of the government’s new contract.

  • CT Brain scan
    News

    Patient group fears national clinical director cut

    2015-12-10T10:25:00Z

    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 ...

  • Justice
    News

    NHS England former head of leadership faces jail after fraud

    2015-12-10T10:20:00Z

    NHS England’s former head of leadership is facing jail after admitting his part in a multimillion pound fraud.

  • Ros Roughton
    News

    PMS 'stock take' will show which practices face funding 'cliff edge'

    2015-12-09T16:04:00Z

    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 ...

  • Circit board
    News

    NHS England signs off 90 digital roadmap groups

    2015-12-09T11:30:00Z

    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 ...

  • Wifi
    News

    Technology £1bn could be tied to free wi-fi goal, Kelsey predicts

    2015-12-09T11:26:00Z

    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 ...

  • Martha Lane-Fox
    News

    Lane-Fox tells ministers one in 10 GP patients ‘should use online services by 2017’

    2015-12-08T00:01:00Z

    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 ...

  • Cardiac surgery
    News

    Exclusive: Increase expected in national tariff rate

    2015-12-07T11:56:00Z

    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, ...

  • Matthew Swindells
    News

    Exclusive: Swindells to join NHS England as national operations director

    2015-12-03T11:58:00Z

    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 ...

  • Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    News

    FT chief named as NHS England urgent and emergency care lead

    2015-12-03T11:58:00Z

    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.

  • INTEGRATION
    HSJ Local

    Possible legal challenge over better care fund millions

    2015-12-03T07:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
    News

    Push for private sector to tackle endoscopy backlog delayed

    2015-12-02T12:12:00Z

    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 ...

  • Woman_GP_with_young_woman_patient
    News

    GPs warned to prepare for cuts to rent payments

    2015-12-02T07:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Syringe
    News

    Exclusive: NHS England attempts to halt judicial review in drug funding row

    2015-12-01T11:46:00Z

    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 ...