All Commissioning articles – Page 155
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HSJ PartnersOptions for engaging members of the CCG governing body
One important issue facing the emerging CCG community is how to engage members of their governing bodies. Here we look at the available options.
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NewsCollaboration not competition CSUs' 'priority'
The NHS Commissioning Board has stressed the importance of collaboration between commissioning support units after announcing a series of networks to provide some “at scale” services.
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HSJ PartnersWhat makes service redesign legally defensible?
The British relationship with the NHS is a complex one.
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NewsAnalysis: Nicholson triggers shift in control to new system leaders
Power to pass from many primary care trusts to NHS Commissioning Board and NHS Trust Development Authority
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NewsDH unveils licensing and competition plans
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor will have the power to direct commissioners to “withdraw or vary” tenders that breach competition rules, under regulations proposed by the Department of Health.
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CommentUniting voices in epilepsy treatment
Patients and clinicians can lead in standard and availability of neurosurgical options
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NewsLatest surgery outcome figures show 'marked' variation
There is “marked” variation in the level of health benefit patients feel from common surgical procedures, national performance figures show.
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NewsCompetition to be limited between commissioning support units
The NHS Commissioning Board has said it will limit competition among commissioning support units for service contracts it is tendering itself.
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NewsCommissioning board and Trust Development Authority directors handed responsibility for 2012-13 delivery
Senior leaders appointed to the NHS Commissioning Board and NHS Trust Development Authority are to take on ‘management responsibility’ for the delivery of NHS performance in 2012/13 from 1 October, six months before the abolition of PCTs and SHAs. This is in addition to existing respective responsibility for commissioning development ...
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NewsCSUs will not be allowed to have a board
The commissioning support units hosted by the NHS Commissioning Board will not be allowed to have their own boards, it has been announced.
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NewsCommissioning support units to collaborate on key intelligence services
Details have been released of how commissioning support units will collaborate to provide some essential services at scale.
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HSJ KnowledgeA collaborative operation
Charities and the NHS should work together to deliver joined-up care patients deserve
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CommentPeter Carter: CCGs need nurses’ talents
Nurses are ideally placed to provide a strategic focus on high-quality care
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HSJ KnowledgeBring social care best to NHS
Health itself improves or declines at an individual level, so care must begin there
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NewsBoard to buy support services
The NHS Commissioning Board will become a major customer of the commercial commissioning support service bodies that it will host, HSJ has learned.
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NewsWinterbourne View commissioners under fire
“Out of sight, out of mind” commissioning contributed to the abuse of patients at Winterbourne View Hospital going unchecked for more than four years, a serious case review has found.
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NewsPCTs begin new wave of redundancies
Eight hundred primary care trust staff are likely to lose their jobs in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester, HSJ has learned, heralding the start of a final round of job cuts in the transition to the new NHS structure.
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NewsOldham: Tackle problem GPs to improve primary care in poor areas
Under-resourced primary care in poor areas could be improved by tackling practices currently providing a bad service, a senior GP adviser has said.
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NewsNine directors appointed to NHS property company
The Department of Health has recruited nine directors to the independent property company it is setting up to manage NHS estate, all of whom are currently working in the NHS.