All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 79
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‘Mothballed beds’ must be brought back into service to boost elective activity says NHSE
NHS England has warned trusts that it is “essential” that elective procedures go ahead over winter, despite acknowledging hospital occupancy is running at an “all time high”.
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Exclusive: Urgent safety measure took three years to implement
A key national policy change recommended by the inquest which led to the East Kent maternity inquiry will not be implemented until next February – more than three years after it was called for by a coroner.
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Slow cancer diagnosis twice as likely for ethnic minority patients, survey shows
New patient data shows significant regional differences in the effectiveness of primary care in getting cancer sufferers diagnosed – with an even more alarming picture when the data is broken down by ethnicity.
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Paramedics in ‘Mexican standoff’ with A&E staff after ‘unprecedented’ rule change
Angry exchanges between paramedics and A&E staff in Liverpool have broken out after new measures were deployed to hold and treat patients in the back of ambulances.
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Trusts need hundreds of millions to stop hospitals’ roofs collapsing
Trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs.
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Comment
Building an effective palliative care workforce
Toby Porter emphasises the need to develop a strong end-of-life care workforce that is prepared to meet growing future need
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Comment
The relationship between carers and the NHS must be recalibrated
Supporting carers is not just about patients, it’s about recognising the caring roles of your own staff outside of work and in work, writes Helen Walker
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HSJ Partners
Show US the benefits – and this time we mean it!!
Benefits are often the most challenging part of EPR business cases. David Corbett emphasises on identifying benefits that trusts need to consider while investing in and implementing digital improvements
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Cuts would cause ‘significant damage’, warns departing mental health leader
Slashing mental health funding when 9.6 million people are either waiting for treatment or at risk of developing more serious problems would be ‘extremely concerning’, Mind’s outgoing chief has told HSJ.
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Comment
The NHS is safe(ish) with Hunt
“I think the public are desperate for politicians to speak truthfully – but it isn’t always easy.”
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‘The money is a f**king nightmare’, says NHS England chief executive
Amanda Pritchard has told local NHS leaders the financial situation facing the health service is a ‘f**king nightmare’, but that it was being tackled at a national level and should not prevent them from improving performance.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: The ICSs already in the red
Two out of three integrated care systems are already reporting sizeable deficits in their first year of existence.
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Comment
National positivity strategy to put the smile back on the NHS's face
It’s never been more important for the NHS to look on the bright side - in fact, it’s now official policy. Julian Patterson reports
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Comment
The elective care waiting list tops seven million
We can estimate that more than 20,000 of the seven million people on the elective care list have unsuspected cancer, and face a typical 10-month wait for that diagnosis.
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Majority of providers in some ICSs to be performance managed by NHSE
Some integrated care boards will not hold the lead performance management role for a majority of their member trusts, under the centre’s new rules for regulating the service.
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Deaths inquiry will exclude dozens of concerning cases, says whistleblower
An inquiry into alleged efforts to cover up care failings at an ambulance trust has been criticised by a key whistleblower for being too limited in scope.
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Trust mergers need not deliver ‘step change’, says NHSE
NHS England has dropped plans to impose a strict test for trust mergers that would have required organisations to demonstrate a ‘step change’ in quality.
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NHSE: Trusts pay ‘unwarranted price variations’ for energy
NHS England’s central commercial function is developing a “coherent category strategy for energy” to standardise trusts’ approach to energy and manage cost pressures in the face of continuing gas and electricity inflation.
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Comment
What the new NHS ‘operating framework’ must say
NHS England’s highly anticipated new operating framework — aka operating model — will empower integrated care systems with autonomy. Matthew Taylor lists down five crucial factors that would impact this transition