All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 3
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News
ICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
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News
‘Bullying and racism’ provider faces NHSE investigation
A community services provider at the centre of bullying and racism allegations is being formally investigated by NHS England over its governance arrangements, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Region ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m
A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.
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NHSE employing temporary workers on up to £900 a day
NHS England is employing temporary workers for several years on up to £900 a day, new figures show, well above the level at which trusts looking to bring in interim staff must secure central sign-off.
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Expert Briefing
Carbon Copy: Emissions down, flights up
The ideas, policies and challenges at the heart of the NHS goal for net zero emissions, from HSJ sustainability correspondent Zoe Tidman.
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News
Central support ‘set to be withdrawn’ from maternity scandal trust
A trust at the centre of a maternity scandal is expected to come out of NHS England’s maternity support programme early next year – despite concerns raised by a parent whose child died under its care.
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News
ICB accused of ‘attacking patient choice’
An integrated care system has been accused of “attacking patient choice” by allegedly “pressuring” eye care providers to refer more work within the NHS – amid moves nationally to bring more ophthalmology services in-house.
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Leader
The future of NHS England
NHS England is to have a new chair, albeit the current incumbent Richards Meddings has agreed to stick around until March in line with the government’s tactic of getting the previous administration to ‘own’ a very difficult winter.
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News
Appointing trust leaders as ICB chiefs ‘essential’ to region’s success
The large size of integrated care systems in the North East and Yorkshire region — and the ex-trust CEO leaders they attracted — has underpinned their relatively strong performance, a new report suggests.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
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News
NHS England chair resigns
The NHS England chair has announced he will step down in March after discussions with Wes Streeting.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: An 'incredibly difficult winter'
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
More than 500 staff given £100k payouts in NHS restructures
NHS commissioning bodies are to spend more than £200m on redundancy payments over a three-year period following a series of restructures and headcount reduction exercises, NHS England’s latest accounts show.
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News
Only a third of NHSE staff think it has a ‘clear vision’
A survey showing only a third of NHS England staff believe it has a “clear vision” for the future has been described as “not as challenging as could be expected” by the organisation.
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HSJ Local
‘Dangerous’ people should not be admitted to specialist beds, warns CEO
Police should work with mental health services to ensure people who pose a danger to society — and show no signs of being mentally unwell — are not inappropriately admitted to rarely available specialist beds, a chief executive has said.
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News
Private firm wins ‘unsafe’ £300m children’s contract
A major contract for children’s community health services — which incumbents claimed was unsafely cutting costs — has been awarded to a private provider.
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Comment
Centre warns NHS of deadly new threat to service
The government and NHS England have told integrated care systems to get a grip on the challenges presented by cold weather and to stop looking to the centre for answers, reports Julian Patterson
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News
Exclusive: NHSE’s defunding of older people’s programme ‘a source of national shame’
NHS England cut £390m (70 per cent) from its planned budget for improving community care for older people in the past two years, according to information obtained by HSJ.
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News
Mapped: RTT waiting times
An interactive map of local NHS waits around England in August 2024, showing the pressures, with links to all the details by organisation and specialty.