All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 4
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Further evidence maternity safety is going in the wrong direction
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The ticking timebomb
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss whether the NHS can cut into the elective waiting list this winter. Plus the latest on the state of the service’s estate.
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News
Exclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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News
Use ‘management discipline’ to keep squeezing pay bill, says NHSE
Trusts and systems must keep squeezing pay costs as winter approaches — despite them cutting around 16,000 posts in the past five months — NHS England has urged.
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News
Local leaders should run NHSE regions, suggest trust CEOs
NHS England’s regional leadership should largely constitute senior executives seconded from local NHS organisations, some of the country’s leading trust CEOs have suggested.
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News
Major diagnostics review kicked into long grass
There are “no plans to publish” a much-anticipated NHS England review of diagnostic services that had been expected this month, a government source has told HSJ.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.
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News
NHS England director warns ‘we can’t surge beds and capacity’ this winter
An NHS England director has warned the health service will not be able to create the same extra capacity used to get through winter in previous years, adding to concerns about performance and safety pressures in coming months.
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News
ICBs told to fix ‘substantial gaps’ in whistleblowing support
Integrated care boards have been told to rectify the “substantial gaps” in reporting through Freedom to Speak Up in primary care.
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HSJ Local
‘NHSE delay’ leaves ICB spending £1m on staff stuck in defunct roles
An integrated care board has apologised to dozens of staff who have waited months for redundancy packages, apparently due to NHS England delaying their approval.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Inequity in the capital
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
Revealed: The trusts struggling most with delayed discharge ‘interface’ problems
The trusts struggling most on the number of delayed discharges caused by so-called “interface issues” between acute and other care services – mostly negotiations over care packages – are revealed by a new dataset.
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News
Trust CEO warns ‘I can’t afford people’ despite missing NHSE target
An ambulance trust which will fail to meet a key target for treating patients with life-threatening conditions this year has delayed recruitment of additional staff due to cost pressures.
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HSJ Interactive
How should the NHS invest to maximise the spread of innovation?
An HSJ roundtable, in association with Philips, discussed what the NHS must do to embed the innovations it so desperately needs
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News
14 trust CEOs appointed regional improvement leads
Over a dozen trust chief executives have been selected by NHS England to lead a nationwide improvement drive on emergency and elective care.
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News
Drive to uncover true level of patient harm in primary care launched by NHSE
The English NHS is to make its first attempt at revealing the scale of harm caused by primary care interventions.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: The worrying ‘normal’ of maternity care
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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News
‘Aggressive’ ministers legitimising bullying in trusts, Letby inquiry told
Bullying, aggressive behaviour, and other forms of inappropriate pressure from ministers and the leaders of central bodies can significantly contribute to the development of an unhealthy workplace culture in local NHS organisations, an expert witness has warned the inquiry into Lucy Letby’s crimes.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The ‘NHS is broken’ blowback
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the Labour Party conference plus some alarming developments in IT.
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News
NHSE chief: Federated data platform will ‘not be spectacular’
An NHS England chief has admitted the controversial “federated data platform” will “not be that spectacular” despite national leaders previously talking it up as “critical for the future of the NHS.”