NHS Executive

NHS England and NHS Improvement senior leadership posts
NHS England 11 December 2018

• NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced a new joint senior leadership team – the NHS Executive Group - and 7 Regional Directors.

Specialised Services Commissioning Committee Report, NHS England Board meeting

Specialised Services Commissioning Committee Report
NHS England board meeting 24 May 2018

Extract from report of meeting 23 April 2018

Decommissioning in specialised services
4. The Committee received an update on a proposal to undertake work on decommissioning within specialised commissioning, which is designed to ensure that NHS resources are more effectively focused on clinical interventions of proven value, by reducing ineffective care and unwarranted variations in care. Published evidence suggests that success will rely on a multi-agency approach which, in the context of specialised interventions, will include amongst others: clinical leaders, NICE and the National Institute for Health Research.

5. The Committee noted the framework for developing this work and asked for it to be aligned to the wider Value Interventions Programme within NHS England.

NHS England Board paper on Performance - Cancer

NHS performance and progress on implementation of ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’
NHS England Board paper 29 March 2018, paper 11
Highlight report of progress we are making in addressing priorities identified in ‘Next Steps’ including Cancer.

Cancer 
Extract in full:

NHS Performance: Cancer

NHS performance, and progress on the implementation of ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’
NHS England Board meeting 8 February 2018, paper 7
Extracts:

• 11-18. An update of NHS performance and progress around Cancer including 2WW, 62 day standard, radiotherapy modernisations, early diagnosis, Faster Diagnosis Standard, personalised follow up after cancer treatment, new multidisciplinary rapid diagnostic and assessment centres.
• 37. "within Specialised Commissioning, latest forecasts show an expectation of £394m of efficiencies, an increase of £68m (21%) on the 2016/17 delivery of £326m. "

Specialised commissioning - an explanation

NHS Commissioning of Specialised Services

House of Commons Library Briefing, 9 June 2017

• This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the commissioning of specialised services by the NHS in England, for patients with rare or complex conditions. How the commissioning process works is set out in further detail, as well as analysis of the financial management and transparency of specialised commissioning, and recent reforms introduced by NICE and NHS England, including reforms to the Cancer Drugs Fund.