All CCG List articles – Page 5
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HSJ Local
Ambulance performance on the mend in Warwickshire
PERFORMANCE: Ambulance turnaround performance in the Coventry and Rugby clinical commissioning group area improved dramatically in May, but remained below target.
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CCG unable to monitor provider contract due to lack of data
FINANCE: Coventry and Rugby clinical commissioning group can only assume its main acute provider contract is breaking even due to a lack of data.
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HSJ Local
Chiltern CCG overspends on care
FINANCE: Chiltern clinical commissioning group was £793,000 overspent on planned and unscheduled care at the end of May.
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HSJ Local
Warwickshire North aims for £4.84m QIPP savings
FINANCE: Warwickshire North clinical commissioning group is planning to make efficiency savings of £4.84m in 2013-14.
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HSJ Local
Chiltern CCG plans integrated care to cut social care use
PERFORMANCE: Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Group is planning to cut both emergency admissions and the use of social care by a quarter by 2017, through the introduction of integrated models of health and social care.
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HSJ Local
CCG relies on 'verbal feedback' amid data shortage
PERFORMANCE: A clinical commissioning group has had to resort to “verbal feedback” to monitor its contract with a provider trust.
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South Warwickshire CCG needs £7m transfer from NHS England
FINANCE: South Warwickshire clinical commissioning group needs a £7m transfer from NHS England in order to hit its financial targets for 2013-14.
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West Hampshire CCG to review use of walk in-centres and minor injuries units
STRUCTURE: West Hampshire clinical commissioning group is to review its usage of a minor injuries unit at the Royal South Hampshire hospital.
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HSJ Local
CCG spends revenue funding on IT amid capital confusion
FINANCE: Warwickshire North clinical commissioning group has committed revenue budgets to pay for IT equipment amid confusion over how capital resources would be made available.
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire Community Services wins temporary reprieve
STRUCTURE Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust has won a stay of execution of at least three months after a programme to tender out up to £1bn worth of services it provides was delayed, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Berkshire CCGs apologise for Continuing Health Care hold-ups
PERFORMANCE: Slough Clinical Commissioning Group has written to Continuing Health Care claimants to apologise for delays to the assessment process.
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HSJ Local
CCG yet to publish a finance report
FINANCE: A clinical commissioning group is yet to publish a finance report, choosing to focus resources elsewhere in the immediate aftermath of the transition to the new NHS structure.
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HSJ Local
Berkshire reconfiguration places CCG's reputation at risk
STRUCTURE: There is an “extreme” risk that the failure to reconfigure acute services in East Berkshire could harm the reputation of Bracknell and Ascot Clinical Commissioning Group, board papers say.
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HSJ Local
North East Essex CCG appoints lay member
WORKFORCE North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed Colchester Borough Council executive director Pamela Donnelly as a lay member.
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HSJ Local
CCG's referrals to mental health trusts double
PERFORMANCE: Consultant referrals from Fareham and Gosport clinical commissioning group to Solent Trust and Southern Health Foundation Trust more than doubled in 2012-13.
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HSJ Local
Fareham and Gosport overspends on Portsmouth trust
FINANCE: Fareham and Gosport clinical commissioning group’s contract with Portsmouth Hospitals Trust was £1.5m over plan at the end of 2012-13.
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HSJ Local
North East Hants CCG cuts surplus plan
FINANCE: North East Hampshire and Farnham clinical commissioning group has agreed a target surplus of £700,000, cut down from an original proposal of £1.2m.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire CCG faces 'extremely challenging' year
FINANCE: Oxfordshire clinical commissioning group has already committed all its non-recurrent funding for 2013-14 to address projected rises in acute activity.
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HSJ Local
Specialised commissioning cash risk for Southampton CCG
FINANCE: An estimate of the topslice of clinical commissioning group budgets to pay for specialised commissioning could lead to “unforeseen financial pressures” in Southampton if it turns out to be incorrect.
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HSJ Local
Southampton CCG red rates QIPP risk
FINANCE: The risk of non delivery of local efficiency plans has been red rated by Southampton City clinicial commissioning group.