All NHS Northumberland CCG articles – Page 2

  • mason steven
    HSJ Local

    Joint CCG and council chief resigns with immediate effect

    2017-05-25T17:41:00Z

    Council chief who was also accountable officer of CCG resigns Northumberland County Council chief executive Steven Mason was appointed accountable officer at Northumberland CCG in January Council announces Mr Mason has stood down with immediate effect A council chief who also led a clinical commissioning group as part ...

  • Dorset
    News

    First nine 'accountable care systems' revealed

    2017-03-31T00:01:00Z

    NHS England identifies the first nine likely “accountable care systems” NHS Improvement and NHS England to adopt “one stop shop” approach to regulation Developing accountable care organisations will “not be a focus of activity” for most places Individual organisations will not be allowed to hold up progress NHS ...

  • Bolton Town Hall
    News

    GP quality – North: Greater Manchester and surrounds lags rest of region

    2017-03-28T15:00:00Z

    Manchester region has eight out of the top 11 CCGs with the highest number of GP surgeries rated requires improvement or inadequate by CQC Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby in north Yorkshire tops the list with 27 per cent of surgeries receiving the lowest two CQC ratings North Tynside CCG ...

  • HSJ Local

    Exclusive: NHS England 'told CCG to report £41m deficit as £5m'

    2017-02-24T12:22:00Z

    NHS England asked struggling CCG to under-report its deficit by more than £35m Northumberland CCG’s forecast deficit has grown from £5m to £41m A struggling clinical commissioning group at the heart of a pioneering new care model vanguard was asked by NHS England to under-report its ...

  • 3009721 david williams expert briefing
    Expert Briefing

    What's New in Care Models: ACO hits a snag

    2017-02-21T15:47:00Z

    Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View. By integration reporter David Williams.

  • The new Northumbria hospital
    HSJ Local

    Revealed: Pioneering 'accountable care organisation' delayed

    2017-02-15T16:06:00Z

    Northumbria accountable care organisation vanguard’s go live date delayed Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has repeatedly maintained the new care model will go live in April 2017 Board papers from Northumberland CCG reveal a “number of milestones” still need to be achieved No date given for when the ACO will ...

  • Steven Mason
    HSJ Local

    Council chief confirmed as CCG boss

    2017-01-06T16:39:00Z

    Northumberland County Council chief executive confirmed to take over as Northumberland CCG accountable officer Steven Mason will replace Alistair Blair, who is expected to chair a new accountable care organisation board Appointment was delayed because Mr Mason and NHS England needed to reach agreement A council chief executive ...

  • board
    HSJ Local

    Exclusive: Council chief takes over CCG as vanguard area moves to ACO

    2016-12-02T10:38:00Z

    Northumberland County Council chief executive to become accountable officer of Northumberland CCG HSJ understands Stephen Mason takes over at the CCG from chief clinical officer Alistair Blair from 1 December Mr Blair is expected to take up the role of independent chair of the accountable care organisation’s board ...

  • tyne_river
    HSJ Local

    Commissioners to take over leading CSU

    2016-11-18T07:00:00Z

    Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and North Durham STP sets out the proposal to convert commissioning support unit into a community interest company After the transition the North of England Commissioning Support Unit will be jointly owned by its CCG customers The CCG owners will be the 11 commissioning groups ...

  • Duncan Selbie
    HSJ Local

    PHE-led panel calls for target to increase preventative spend

    2016-10-11T17:57:00Z

    New report recommends north east NHS and local authorities “radically increase” funding in preventative care Report focuses on tacking health inequalities and and close the health and wealth gap in the region Recommends a dedicated investment pot and suggests increasing funding £160m a year by 2020-21 Public sector ...

  • David Williams
    Expert Briefing

    What’s new in care models: The NHS’s first accountable care organisation?

    2016-10-03T13:00:00Z

    Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View

  • Stephen Childs
    HSJ Local

    CSU director named as CCG chief officer

    2016-09-29T15:29:00Z

    The managing director of the North of England Commissioning Support Unit has been appointed as chief executive for Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group, and will do both jobs.

  • Len Fenwick
    News

    Fenwick fears running a chain would take his 'eye off the ball'

    2016-06-16T07:00:00Z

    Sir Leonard Fenwick worried that hospital chain would mean taking his “eye of the ball” of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust Longest serving NHS chief executive attributes outstanding rating to “good relationship with staff” Newcastle being “brought back into the fold” to help with “salvage” of North Cumbria ...

  • The new northumbria hospital at cramlington
    News

    Analysis: How Northumbria is redesigning urgent care

    2016-06-08T07:00:00Z

    Mike Waites examines how Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital is transforming emergency care provision in the North East, but not without significant teething problems

  • Len Fenwick
    News

    First teaching hospital rated outstanding

    2016-06-06T13:45:00Z

    Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals FT becomes first teaching hospital to be rated outstanding by the CQC Trust is second in the North East to be awarded the top rating, after Northumbria Healthcare was rated outstanding last month Newcastle is led by Sir Leonard Fenwick, the NHS’s longest serving chief ...

  • Wansbeck general hospital
    News

    Northumbria chief: NHS leaders should 'grasp the nettle' on reconfiguration

    2016-05-05T00:01:00Z

    Chief executive of outstanding rated trust says NHS leaders should “grasp the nettle” when it comes to reconfiguration David Evans: “Continuity” of Northumbria’s leadership key to CQC rating Says Jim Mackey “hugely” contributed to the success of the trust The chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare Foundation trust has ...

  • Nick goodman3x2
    Comment

    Jim Mackey must sweep away public and staff engagement inertia

    2016-03-03T15:16:00Z

    Nick Goodman on how NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey must make people engagement a top priority

  • Duncan Selbie
    News

    Selbie to chair North East health devolution commission

    2016-01-13T12:50:00Z

    Public Health England chief executive Duncan Selbie has been appointed chair of the North East’s commission for health and social care integration.

  • Medical tray with syringe, pills and water
    News

    Exclusive: GP groups cover most of England but ‘lack ambition and priorities’

    2016-01-06T07:00:00Z

    Large scale GP provider groups operating in 82 per cent of England’s CCG areas There are 268 federations up and running, HSJ research suggests It is estimated that these organisations cover 41 million patients Four fifths of clinical commissioning groups have at least one large scale GP provider ...

  • Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
    HSJ Local

    Exclusive: Struggling CCG may join leading NHS 'ACO' project

    2015-10-16T07:00:00Z

    A financially troubled clinical commissioning group may pass many of its responsibilities to Northumbria’s emerging ‘accountable care organisation’, HSJ has learned.