All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 358
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Comment
Payment system reform is essential to better care
A new model can support community based care
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All health conferences should have a people's panel
Put patients centre stage of open, honest dialogue
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News
A&E target missed for first time this winter
The health service has failed to meet the accident and emergency waiting target for seeing 95 per cent of patients within four hours for the first week this winter.
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Surgical never events 'completely unacceptable'
NHS England’s patient safety director has said there is no excuse for surgical never events after it was revealed 85 trusts reported incidents such as wrong site surgery in the first half of 2013-14.
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Fall in patient satisfaction with GPs, survey shows
Fewer patients are finding it easy to book GP appointments, while trust in doctors and out-of-hours services has also fallen slightly, figures show.
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Chris Hopson: Nine ways to make the NHS fit for 2014
The next planning round is crucial to the NHS’s future
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Malcolm Grant: I don't use private healthcare
The NHS England chair has refuted suggestions that he uses private healthcare, saying he is registered with an NHS GP and does not have health insurance.
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Clash over allocation of £3.8bn integration fund
Department for Communities and Local Government officials are battling for a £3.8bn health and social care fund to be weighted more heavily towards deprived areas, in order to address criticisms that cuts have hit these places hardest, HSJ sister title LGC has reported.
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Grant: Stevens will take NHS into 'next phase' of transformation
The health service is entering a “transformational” next phase in which services spanning different sectors are likely to be contracted to serve specified segments of the population, according to NHS England’s chair.
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Getting the money right matters most to patients
NHS England can deliver better specialised care
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NHS England 'shouldn't beg for money'
NHS England should not “become an agency that begs for more money for business as usual”, Sir Malcolm Grant has said.
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Surge of concern about commissioning support relationships
There is strong support among local leaders for changes to the nine-month-old commissioning system, including support arrangements and NHS England’s responsibilities.
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HSJ Local
Midwifery regulation 'risks failure to learn from mistakes'
Flawed local regulation of midwifery services can place the lives of mothers and babies at risk, according to a report published today by the health service ombudsman.
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HSJ Local
Mutual assurance 'joins up commissioning process'
PERFORMANCE: The chair of Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, the first to introduce a “mutual assurance process” with NHS England, has said the process has helped to join up commissioning.
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HSJ Local
GP surgery faced closure in property wrangle
Landlords came close to closing a GP surgery amid a lease renewal blunder involving NHS Property Services and NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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Listen: Next NHS England chief on future healthcare
Listen to the incoming NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, who will replace Sir David Nicholson in April, talk about innovation and the future of healthcare in a speech in Qatar yesterday.
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EXCLUSIVE: Integration pioneers among winners from £260m technology fund
Three plans to join up patient records across a number of health and social care organisations are among 135 projects to have secured a share of NHS England’s £260m technology fund.
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Revealed: Thousand incidences of specialised services failing standards
NHS England has agreed more than 1,000 temporary contract variations when providers of specialised services have failed to meet new service standards, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Health Act to be changed to boost joint commissioning
The Health Act 2012 is set to be changed to make it easier for clinical commissioning groups to come together with each other – and with NHS England – to jointly commission services, HSJ has learned.