All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 319
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Exclusive: Raid on DH's capital budget rises to £640m
The Treasury agreed a further £150m transfer from the Department of Health’s capital budget in the early months of 2015 to help the health service cope with ongoing revenue spending pressures, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
NHS England regional director to join Wirral CCG
WORKFORCE: An NHS England regional director has been announced as the permanent accountable officer for a North West clinical commissioning group rocked by leadership turmoil last year.
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Comment
The reasons why the 18 week target isn't on solid ground
Has the government achieved what it set out to?
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Trusts ‘unanimously’ reject NHS England's reduced specialist funding offer
London teaching hospitals have turned down an offer from NHS England to pay just a quarter of their previous allocation for highly specialist treatments.
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Leader
£500m risk transfer will not end the search for financial stability
Risk transfer signals “years of ad hoc approaches”
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Exclusive: Providers win £500m in new tariff deal
Providers will be given just a fortnight to decide whether to sign up to a new set of ‘voluntary’ prices for the coming year, with concessions made expected to cost commissioners up to £500m.
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CCGs taking on full primary care co-commissioning powers revealed
NHS England has revealed the 64 clinical commissioning groups that will take full control of their local primary care budgets from April.
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HSJ Local
Trust pledges improvements after review of patients who committed murder
PERFORMANCE: South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust has drawn up an action plan to learn lessons from six historical cases involving patients who committed murders while under its care.
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Comment
Collective leadership will keep forward view ambitions on track
Changes to commissioning are needed
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Government ups pressure to bring down waiting list
Government focus has moved from accident and emergency performance to the NHS’s 3.2 million elective waiting list, senior trust sector sources have told HSJ.
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Acute trusts mull marginal tariff complaint against CCGs
A number of acute trusts are considering launching an official complaint against their local clinical commissioning groups because of the way in which they have spent money designed to reduce emergency admissions.
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Exclusive: Most providers believe they cannot sign contracts before April, survey finds
A majority of provider sector finance chiefs believe that their organisations will not be able to sign contracts before the start of the coming financial year, according to a snap survey shared with HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield organisations pitch £260m 'vanguard' care plan
STRUCTURE: Health and care organisations have agreed to pool £260m to redesign and commission services together in their application to become a “vanguard site” for the new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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Trusts combine to pioneer open source patient records project
Trusts to pioneer open source patient records system
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QOF 'bad for health', says NHS England GP leader
NHS England’s most senior GP leaders have criticised the national GP pay for performance framework as ‘bad for health’. Clinicians should instead be incentivised to work more closely with other parts of the health system, they said.
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Core GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.