…streamlined commissioning arrangements to enable a single set of commissioning decisions at system level. This will typically involve a single CCG for each ICS area.” (p29). Far from streamlining, Nottinghamshire…
…of escalating costs that the government have so far not committed to meet. The latest call for extra funds came from Chris Hopson, CEO of NHS Providers that represents NHS…
…the latest instalment they complain that “the feared deluge of coronavirus hasn’t materialised,” and merrily misinterpret research from the Health Foundation that shows how far the NHS as we know…
…nasty habit of persisting in the community for a long time. This will have profound consequences for the NHS for many years to come.” He maintains that, in order…
…Sufficient capital is also needed to build new community diagnostic hubs and surgical centres without any private sector involvement. The latest desperate short-term moves to create “mini-Nightingale” hospitals in tents…
…searching questions about how these results were achieved. However, a new Lowdown survey of 21 ICBs (in North East and Yorkshire, North West, South East and South West) suggests this…
In the week in which NHS England struck a pose as opponents of the compulsion to put services out to tender its junior officials were stonewalling questions from Oxfordshire campaigners…
…is admitted to be no higher than £5.4m a year, £680,000 per CCG, even scrapping all of them completely would save just 0.2% of NW London CCGs’ £2.9 billion combined…
…in its recent ruling on the new hospital proposed for South West London). The Nuffield Trust, Kings Fund and the National Audit office have also asked searching questions. But it…