All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 375
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical commissioners can help shape primary care
CCGs can enhance general practice’s future if it lets them
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News
Exclusive: National chief GP appointed by commissioning board
The NHS Commissioning Board had appointed a deputy medical director for primary care, HSJ has learned.
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News
Commissioning board names Barbara Hakin as interim deputy chief
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that Dame Barbara Hakin will step up to be its interim chief operating officer and deputy chief executive.
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HSJ Knowledge
Patients and quality are the focus for CCGs
Francis provides an opportunity for the NHS to reassess its priorities
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News
Kelsey plans action on health technology education
The NHS Commissioning Board will work with a charity to offer 100,000 people access to training in online health literacy over the next year, it has announced.
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News
Board approaches Mark Britnell over deputy chief role
Former NHS director general Mark Britnell has been approached about the possibility of becoming the NHS Commissioning Board’s deputy chief executive, it has emerged.
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News
Wollaston: Nicholson should go after transition
An influential Conservative member of the Commons health committee has told HSJ that Sir David Nicholson should oversee the end of the NHS reorganisation, and then resign as NHS Commissioning Board chief executive.
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News
Government to amend controversial competition rules
The government will amend its controversial competition regulations, minister Norman Lamb has said.
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News
Nicholson defends himself to MPs over Mid Staffs failings
Sir David Nicholson has defended himself before MPs and said he is “determined” to remain in post as the NHS reforms are implemented.
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News
Ex-health secretaries say Sir David should stay
Four former health secretaries have said Sir David Nicholson should not lose his job as NHS chief executive in the wake of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and other alleged care and management failings.
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HSJ Knowledge
Balancing the conflicting interests of CCGs
Why CCG conflicts should be managed, not eradicated
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News
Targets have distracted NHS from care, says commissioning board director
An NHS Commissioning Board director has said the Francis report shows that “political or other objectives” such as targets trumped concerns over failings in NHS care.
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News
Exclusive: Commissioning board appoints charity chief as patient experience director
The NHS Commissioning Board has appointed Neil Churchill, chief executive of Asthma UK, as its director of patient experience, HSJ has learned.
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News
NHS hospitals could be paid extra under 'cherry picking' rules
Commissioners may need to increase the prices they pay to NHS hospitals left with more complex workloads after other providers have “cherry picked” the easier patients, new Department of Health guidance shows.
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News
Kelsey dilutes digital records target
A NHS Commissioning Board target for all hospitals to have electronic patient record systems by 2014 has been watered down, the director overseeing the work has told HSJ.
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News
Commissioning board chair backs Nicholson
The NHS Commissioning Board has given its backing to its chief executive Sir David Nicholson, amid calls for his resignation.
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Nicholson faces 'silent protest' outside board meeting
Health campaigners who are demanding that senior managers are held to account for the Stafford Hospital “disaster” will on Thursday step up their calls for the resignation of Sir David Nicholson.
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Comment
Culture is the foundation of patient safety
Hospitals must have a balanced culture following Francis
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News
Kelsey plans iPad app to provide patient 'insight'
The NHS Commissioning Board has outlined fresh details of its drive to bring together information from a range of official and unofficial sources to provide a picture of NHS service providers’ quality.
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News
CCGs warn they risk being 'saddled with inherited debt'
Clinical commissioning groups have warned they are at risk of being “saddled with an inherited debt” when they take on their new powers, as a result of an onslaught of retrospective claims for NHS continuing healthcare funding.