All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 404
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NewsExclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsMike Farrar to leave NHS
Mike Farrar is to step down from the NHS Confederation and will not apply to become NHS England chief executive, he announced today.
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NewsNHS England warning: Monitor's proposals 'could put services at risk'
NHS England has warned that some of Monitor’s proposals for securing fairer competition between NHS and independent sector providers could “put the continuation of certain services at risk”.
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NewsNHS England 'working with' GP firm over Merseyside practice concerns
NHS England has acknowledged concerns raised about services at some of the 22 practices in Liverpool and Sefton which were taken over by a GP-led company in the spring.
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LeaderHunt seizes back control as reform legacy creates a frantic summer
Surveying the events of August
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NewsAnalysis: Support units could be taken over by CCGs
NHS England could allow clinical commissioning groups to take ownership of their support service providers, rather than let the units be moved into the private sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDeadline pushed back for CSU tendering
Clinical commissioning groups will be allowed to delay formal procurement of their support services until 2016, under new guidance published this week by NHS England.
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NewsExclusive: Clare Gerada wins role transforming London primary care
The outgoing Royal College of GPs chair Clare Gerada has been appointed to lead a project to overhaul primary care across London.
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NewsExclusive: Race 'a factor' in variability of sickle cell services
Wide variations in the quality of services for patients with rare blood disorders are at least partly a result of their prevalence among ethnic minority communities, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNHS bodies 'like warring parents'
The two organisations in charge of the health service in England “ought to get their act together”, NHS leaders have said.
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HSJ KnowledgeSet up a commissioning network with bite
Developing new networks for NHS dental services
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NewsNHS England to publish trust-by-trust 'never events' list
NHS England is to publish quarterly lists of all the “never events” – the worst preventable mistakes – recorded in the NHS, broken down by trust, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsKey telehealth group axed
A flagship group set up by the government to promote efforts to have three million patients using telehealth by 2017 has been disbanded amid growing evidence the programme is experiencing difficulty, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSatisfaction survey ‘damages staff morale and alarms patients’
NHS England is under fresh pressure to rethink the presentation of results of its friends and family test amid warnings those results based on few responses are damaging staff morale and needlessly alarming patients.
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CommentThe friends and family test can make the grade
Collection and analysis of the data must improve
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NewsNHS Choices use of friends and family scores 'misleading', say trusts
NHS Choices has been accused of “misleading” and “confusing” patients in its presentation of the results of the friends and family test.
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NewsA&E response rate remains issue for friends and family test
NHS trusts have continued to struggle to gather responses to the friends and family test from accident and emergency patients, the latest tranche of data has revealed.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: CCGs could take over CSUs
NHS England could allow clinical commissioning groups to take ownership of their support service providers, rather than allowing the units to be moved into the private sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England forecasts 13pc savings plan shortfall
NHS England is predicting it will fall short of its efficiency savings target by 13 per cent in this financial year − a much bigger gap than that expected by clinical commissioning groups.