All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 329
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Kelsey: Digital ambition will need carrots as well as sticks
NHS England’s information director has acknowledged trusts will need ‘incentives’ as well as ‘consequences’ to encourage them to hit new national standards for information technology
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Patients to be able to write in their records from 2018
Patients will be able to add comments into their care records from March 2018 under new plans to make the NHS fully digital by 2020
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'Challenged' areas recovery plans demand integration and reconfiguration
The creation of new integrated provider models and capitated budgets are fundamental to the visions of the national ‘challenged health economies’, HSJ has been told
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Analysis: Distressed health economies' leaders doubt books will balance
Senior leaders in several of the NHS’s ‘challenged health economies’ are not confident their area will be in financial balance in five years’ time, even after months of intensive support from national organisations
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Patients 'denied treatments' because of 'Kafkaesque' commissioning regime
Patients are being denied access to life changing treatments because parts of NHS England’s “Kafkaesque” commissioning regime appear to have ground to a halt, clinicians and charities have warned
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No cash for co-commissioning running costs, NHS England confirms
Clinical commissioning groups will not be awarded extra funding to run primary care co-commissioning, NHS England has confirmed.
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Expensive drugs to be cut from cancer drugs fund
NHS England is to start evaluating the cost effectiveness of medicines available through the cancer drugs fund in a bid to bring the budget under control
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Three more trusts impose out of area referral restrictions
Three further trusts have imposed controversial curbs on patient access to services by restricting referrals from outside of their catchment areas
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Shrewsbury and Telford set to breach deficit target
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust looks set to exceed its deficit target as it struggles with higher than expected staff costs, its board papers reveal.
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Primary care 'in foothills' of modernisation, says NHS England director
Primary care has only reached the ‘foothills’ of transformation, Mike Bewick has said during an interview in which he predicts a “steeper fall” in the number of individual GP practices
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Bewick: Up-skilled GPs should support emergency and acute services
Emergency and acute services in some areas could increasingly be supported by up-skilled GPs, working across hospital and community settings, NHS England’s deputy medical director has said
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NHS finances ‘absolutely on the knife edge’
The health service is “absolutely on the knife edge” with no reserve left to cushion against unforeseen pressures, NHS England officials have warned
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End Game: Homeopathy invasion
Simon Stevens fends off Commons quizzing on alternative medicine
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Waiting list shrinks slightly amid government drive to treat long waiters
The government’s drive to help hospitals clear their backlog of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment has started to pay off, figures from NHS England indicate
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Senior DH official: trusts ‘need’ IT directors at board level
Hospital trusts ‘need’ chief information officers on their boards and should treat IT as a leadership function instead of a back office one, Will Cavendish has said
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Plans to involve GPs in NHS 111 'naive'
NHS England has ‘lost’ time exploring the use of GPs for the NHS 111 phone line as there are too few in the workforce to support it, a leading clinician has said
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NHS England plans specialist radiotherapy overhaul
An overhaul of specialist radiotherapy nationwide could see the number of sites commissioned by NHS England reduced as the body seeks to improve efficiency and access
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