All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 304
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HSJ Local
East London maternity service 'inadequate' for safety
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has told Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust to improve its maternity services following an inspection triggered by the deaths of five mothers over 18 months.
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HSJ Local
Country's biggest CCG subject to NHS England ‘directions’
FINANCE: The biggest clinical commissioning group in the country has been issued with NHS England ‘directions’ because of its longstanding financial troubles.
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News
'Other bodies' could take powers from failing CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups failing for more than a year could have their responsibilities removed and handed to other organisations, new guidance indicates.
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HSJ Local
NHS England takes action against financially troubled CCGs
FINANCE: NHS England has imposed legal directions on two clinical commissioning groups after they built up large deficits.
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DH to clip major hospitals’ power to veto tariff
The Department of Health has moved to drastically curb the power of NHS hospitals to veto unpopular proposals for the pricing of NHS services.
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Demand for elective care highest in seven years
The number of patients waiting to start treatment has hit the highest point in seven years, according to the latest data from NHS England.
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Struggling emergency care systems to get winter buddies
A buddy system for poorly performing urgent and emergency care systems will be introduced this winter in an attempt to help the ‘most challenged’ areas.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners look to extend 111 contracts until moratorium ends
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners across the East Midlands are looking to extend their contracts with the region’s biggest providers of NHS 111 services by six months. It follows an NHS England moratorium on procuring fresh contracts until September.
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HSJ Local
Social enterprise named preferred bidder for community services
COMMERCIAL: A social enterprise has been named the preferred bidder to provide community services across north Somerset by the local clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
Lincolnshire health bodies form system-wide ‘recovery programme’
PERFORMANCE: Organisations across Lincolnshire are to form a group to improve the region’s care quality, rescue its financial position and develop a county-wide workforce plan.
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700 jobs at risk as NHS England signs £330m Capita deal
NHS England has completed a £330m, seven year deal to outsource primary care support services to Capita, putting more than 700 jobs at risk.
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HSJ Partners
Barometer: Another year of change beckons for CCGs
Establish relationships that look at patient need
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Comment
What the Labour leader candidates will say about the NHS
Leadership elections are fast approaching
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News
NHS England clarifies financial directions to CCGs following regulator letter
NHS England has written to clinical commissioning groups to give ‘clarity’ over statements issued to providers by Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority this week.
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Drug pricing scheme ‘must be more transparent’, says commissioning chief
The deal struck between the government and the pharmaceutical industry to limit the amount the NHS spends on branded drugs must become ‘more transparent’, the director of NHS Clinical Commissioners has said.
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HSJ Local
Ex London Ambulance chief to temporarily lead acute trust
WORKFORCE: The former chief executive of London Ambulance Service Trust has temporarily taken over at Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust to cover the current chief executive’s sick leave.
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News
NHS England to create safe staffing 'oversight' group
An advisory group including senior figures from across the health service is being created by NHS England to oversee future work on safe staffing guidance.
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Exclusive: Prime minister intervened in NHS England drug decisions
The prime minister intervened in NHS England’s consideration of funding for drugs to treat several rare conditions with a letter to its chief executive, HSJ has learned.