All ASHTON, LEIGH AND WIGAN PCT articles – Page 3
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HSJ Knowledge
Social marketing: the medium is the message
Health promotion suffers from a 'conspiracy of passive failure'. Could work in the North West turn it around, asks Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement / 18 weeks
Success storiesAlison MooreWhen the 18 weeks target was announced in 2004 there was widespread scepticism that the NHS could ever deliver it. But in just four years patients are now getting treatment for both admitted and non-admitted pathways in this time – and the median wait is just eight weeks ...
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News
Pilot trusts hire PR firm to keep project in public eye
The six pilot community foundation trusts have hired a public relations firm to promote their primary care trust provider model.
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Doubts over community foundation trusts
Conflicts of interest, difficulties in demonstrating autonomy and low pay are just some of the potential problems facing community foundation trusts.
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News
FESC is thrown open without Treasury probe
The Department of Health has extended its commissioning support programme without carrying out an expected value-for-money assessment of the scheme, HSJ has learned.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced last week that the framework for procuring external support for commissioners, FESC, is now open to all primary care trusts to buy in ...
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BUPA wins first deal to support commissioners
Hillingdon primary care trust has signed a three-year deal with BUPA to help it commission services.
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News
Quality of 100 new GP practices comes into question
The 100 new GP practices to be built in under-doctored areas will be badly funded and poorly staffed, the British Medical Association has warned.
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News
List of PCTs to go with under-doctored areas story
The full list of PCTs are: Manchester, Barking and Dagenham, Knowsley, Sandwell,Wolverhampton City, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Liverpool, Sunderland Teaching, Birmingham East and North, Halton and St Helens, Heart of Birmingham Teaching, Barnsley, Leicester City, Oldham, Blackburn with Darwen, Stoke on Trent, Hounslow, Hull, Nottingham City, Blackpool, Ashton, Leigh and ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning: wise buys
Helen Mooney asks the early adopters of FESC and their private sector partners what they hope to achieve from the framework
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Comment
Mark Britnell on world class commissioning
PCTs are not obliged to use this framework - it is simply there to help them if they need it
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News
DoH names 14 firms that will support PCTs
Fourteen private firms have been appointed by the Department of Health to help primary care trusts commission services, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Tesco and Boots opt out of GP scheme
Virgin, Tesco, NetCare, and Boots have said they will not be bidding to provide GP practices under a scheme designed to extend services in under-doctored areas.
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GP tendering could herald new era of competition for practices
A scheme allowing primary care trusts greater sway over GP services could be the 'tip of the iceberg' in exposing family doctors to competition.
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News
Easier access to services in North West
Health minister Andy Burnham has announced the next five areas where the Fairness in Primary Care Procurement programme will be rolled out.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stepping up to patient care
The Stepping Up programme is designed to understand how improving access to treatments can improve people's well-being and prevent them from developing more serious mental health problems, writes Mark Needham.
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News
Community foundations set for pilots, but names under wraps
Pilot community foundation trusts are being considered by the Department of Health, with the aim of the first one going live by the end of 2008, although the DoH will not confirm who is on the list.
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HSJ Knowledge
At your service
The government and PCTs are contemplating the benefits of community foundation trusts, but are they really the future for provider services, asks Kaye McIntosh
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HSJ Knowledge
Special report: PCT futures
In December, HSJran the PCT Futures conference in London, bringing together a wide range of speakers from government, primary care and the independent sector. In this special report we examine some of the main themes to emerge, from the complex arguments around splitting commissioning ...
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News analysis: time to give PECs the muscle to make a real difference
Professional executive committees have been weighed down by corporate affairs and unable to influence strategy and clinical design, so the DoH's decision to review them has been widely welcomed. But what will the new PECs look like? Daloni Carlisle finds out
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