All CCG List articles – Page 3
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NewsCambridgeshire flagship services restructure racks up over £1m in costs
A clinical commissioning group has spent more than £1m developing and tendering one of the most high profile service restructures in the NHS.
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NewsCCGs raise concerns over 'system resilience groups'
Clinical commissioning groups have become concerned about the burden of being involved with ‘system resilience groups’, which are expected to oversee efforts to clear waiting lists and ease winter pressures.
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HSJ LocalBedfordshire CCG clinical chief defends hospital downgrade plans
The chief clinical officer of Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group appears to have ruled out a radical reconfiguration proposal for its acute services that would downgrade Bedford Hospital to a GP led facility with no beds.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire CCG faces two years of deficit
FINANCE: Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is set to record a £7.6m deficit in 2014-15, following an unplanned overspend this year, and does not expect to deliver a surplus until 2016-17.
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HSJ Local
CCG votes to downgrade maternity unit
STRUCTURE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has voted to go ahead with plans to downgrade consultant led maternity cover at the Friarage Hospital, rejecting an alternative proposal by a council leader to save it.
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HSJ Local
Council leader accuses CCG of 'undermining' plan to save unit
STRUCTURE: A council leader has accused a clinical commissioning group of trying to “undermine” his plan to secure 24 hour maternity consultant cover at a hospital.
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HSJ LocalIntegrated care pioneer voted out by GPs
The clinical commissioning group leader who fronted an ambitious attempt to introduce integrated outcomes based contracts has lost his place on the body’s board following a vote by GPs.
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HSJ LocalCCGs tell Serco to improve service
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have insisted community services in Suffolk run by Serco are “safe”, a week after a council said they could be deteriorating.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool funds Citizens Advice advisers in GP practices
PERFORMANCE: Every GP practice in Liverpool is to have access to dedicated Citizens Advice advisers to whom patients with non-medical problems can be refered.
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HSJ Local
CCGs plan 10 per cent cost saving on CSU
FINANCE: Commissioners in Warwickshire and Worcestershire have said they need to save 10 per cent on their support service costs, and have set out where they are considering spending less.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Serco withdraws from £800m contract race
COMMERCE: Serco has become the latest bidder to withdraw from a contest to provide integrated older people’s services in a contract worth up to £800m, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Second bidder drops out of £800m contract
A second bidder has dropped out the bidding process for an £800m older services people services contract being tendered by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Local
Mansfield and Ashfield uses contingency funds to plug Sherwood overspend
Board papers reveal Mansfield and Ashfield CCG has had to take money from its contingency fund in order to account for a £2.4m overspend at Sherwood Forest Hospitals in the middle of the financial year.
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HSJ Local
Corby CCG appoints acting accountable officer
Corby clinical commissioning group has appointed Carole Dehghani as acting accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
Mid Yorkshire hospitals reconfiguration referred to Hunt
STRUCTURE: Plans to reconfigure Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s services have been referred to the health secretary.
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HSJ Local
Community services trust's survival bid dealt blow
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust’s attempt to avoid abolition has been dealt a blow after the consortium it joined to bid for a £800m older people’s services contract withdrew from the process.
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HSJ LocalCambridgeshire and Peterborough considers £50m musculoskeletal tender
The clinical commissioning group running a £800m tender for older people’s services has revealed it could also tender a musculoskeletal service contract worth more than £50m a year.
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HSJ Local
Cambs and Peterborough CCG faces 'significant financial challenge'
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group which has put up to £800m of older people’s services out to tender is reporting it faces a “significant financial challenge”.
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HSJ Local
'Vacuum' between GP and A&E, independent report finds
PERFORMANCE: An independent report into emergency provision in Berkshire has identified a “vacuum” between GP services and care for life threatening situations.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: CCGs line up 10 year integrated contracts
STRUCTURE: Five clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire are planning to tender the first integrated 10 year contracts for cancer and end of life care, HSJ has learned.