The Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board, Professor Malcolm Grant, today (Thursday) made the following statement at the organisation’s public board meeting held in Manchester. He said: “I want to make a statement about the Chief Executive. We stand at the moment poised at the commencement of one of the great momentous changes in the […]
Each of the 12 senate support teams will agree local governance arrangements with the national framework set out in The Way Forward: Clinical Senates. A map showing the areas each senate will cover can be downloaded here. The contact details of the Clinical Senate Managers for the senate support teams can be found below. They […]
The NHS Commissioning Board today announces the forthcoming departure of its Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, Ian Dalton CBE. Ian will be moving to BT Global Services to take up the position of President of Global Health. Ian has held a number of very senior roles within the NHS including Chief Executive of […]
“We must give patients much more clout”, says NHS chief Sir David Nicholson has apologised to the people of Mid Staffordshire on behalf of the NHS, saying it had “let people down in the most devastating way”. He made it clear that “apologies are not enough” and pledged to respond positively and swiftly to the […]
The next steps and outputs from the launch event of the NHS Commissioning Assembly are being made available today. The NHS Commissioning Assembly is the community of leaders for NHS commissioning; the ‘one team’ which will deliver better outcomes for patients. It has been set up to create shared leadership nationally and locally; co-produce national […]
At the NHS Commissioning Board Authority board meeting on 20 September 2012, National Director: HR, Jo-Anne Wass, presented an update on recruitment including a verbal briefing on the number of appointments that have been made. This information has now been published and shows that 101 posts have been filled as at 19 September 2012, with […]
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I want to use my position a Chief Nurse for England to make a positive difference: for patients and for our profession. We have an opportunity to shape the way nurses and midwives work in the future so that we can care for our patients with compassion and dignity, while confidently working with the latest […]
The Secretary of State’s third accountability meeting with the NHS Commissioning Board Authority held on 25 June 2012 discussed the following issues: update from senior departmental sponsor progress on recruiting new positions in the Board progress on developing clinical commissioning groups promoting equality and reducing inequalities working within the overall NHS Outcomes Framework publication of […]
The first round of appointments to local area team director posts has been made by the NHS Commissioning Board Authority. The first 16 of the 25 director posts have been appointed to, as follows: North Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral: Moira Dumma (currently Director of Commissioning Development at NHS Midlands and East SHA Cluster) Merseyside: Clare […]