All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 342
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DH highlights five areas for £2bn savings drive
The Department of Health has pinpointed five key areas where it wants the health service to cut costs in a bid to slash £2bn from the 2015-16 budget, HSJ has learned.
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Hunt: CCGs must become 'accountable care organisations'
Clinical commissioning groups must become more accountable as they expand their role in delivering healthcare, the health secretary has said
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Clinical leaders: Pharma on the front line
Pharmacists are well placed to take a central role in the care of patients with chronic conditions
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Hunt calls for safeguarding review in wake of Savile abuse
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for regulators and trust leaders to review safeguarding procedures after an investigation revealed that “weak systems” in hospitals had allowed celebrity Jimmy Savile to abuse scores of patients over many years.
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CCGs 'should have more control over winter pressures funding'
A clinical commissioning group leader has called for commissioners to have more control over “winter pressures” funding, rather than having to pass it directly to providers.
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'Significant' interest in commissioning through evaluation delays programme
A decision on which hospitals will provide three cutting edge interventional cardiology treatments will not be made until September, 18 months after the NHS stopped funding them.
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Exclusive: Clinical egos driving specialised commissioning costs
Doctors’ desire for “kudos” is leading to new treatments being introduced without good evidence of their effectiveness or adequate challenge from NHS England.
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Simon Stevens: ‘open’ areas for new GPs could cut inequalities
Bringing down barriers faced by new GP providers wanting to enter the market in underdoctored areas could help cut health inequalities, the chief executive of NHS England has said.
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Clinical care protocols: When safe comes as standard
Why evidence based clinical care protocols hold the key to standardising care
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Around 180 CCGs bid for primary care co-commissioning
Bids to co-commission primary care have been submitted by around 180 of England’s 211 clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NHS England: CCG interest in controlling CSUs 'evaporates'
The appetite of clinical commissioning groups to take control of their support service suppliers has dwindled, NHS England has claimed today.
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Airline style briefings aim to improve patient safety
Trusts taking part in the new Sign up to Safety campaign will be asked to commit to giving patients “airline style” safety advice on their stay in hospital, a trust chief executive leading the campaign has said.
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Lord Carter outlines early priorities for procurement
The new NHS procurement champion has urged trusts to be open minded about the benefits of a more centralised purchasing system
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Practices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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Teach clinicians how to talk about cancer
Patients want a dialogue that goes beyond their consultation
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Exclusive: Lord Carter appointed NHS 'procurement champion'
The Department of Health has appointed Labour peer Lord Carter as the NHS’s “procurement champion” to help the service save up to £2bn on its budget, HSJ has learned.
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Single online tool launched to aid mental health data models
Efforts to develop more sophisticated approaches to commissioning, funding and comparing mental health services could be helped by a new online database.
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NHS England strategy director joins GP and urgent care provider
The recently departed strategy director of NHS England has been appointed as a partner at a large GP and urgent care provider.