All Commissioning articles – Page 159
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NewsNorth Staffordshire trust fined again over waiting time failures
University Hospital of North Staffordshire has been fined £2.5m by commissioners for its continued failure to hit a key accident and emergency target.
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NewsCommissioning board encourages CCG contract and risk sharing
The NHS Commissioning Board has published guidance highlighting the benefits of - and options for - clinical commissioning groups collaborating to share contracts with providers and pool financial risk.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: 400 PCT jobs at risk in Birmingham and Black Country
WORKFORCE: Four hundred primary care trust staff are likely to lose their jobs in Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country in the transition to the new NHS commissioning structure, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNICE proposes indicators for holding CCGs to account
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has suggested 44 indicators which could be used to monitor the success of clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ KnowledgeFish for the best variety of CCG
CCGs will be more like a colourful array of tropical fish than a dull salmon farm
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CommentNeil Churchill: living within our means locally
It’s predicted the NHS will have to learn to live on half its long-term growth rate
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HSJ KnowledgeIn control of their condition
Clinics are making patients feel more informed and autonomous
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NewsConsultant quits over diagnostic 'failures'
A whistleblower has resigned from his job as a consultant at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, complaining about a “complete failure of corporate leadership” at the trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeMake time for talking
The introduction of a web-based tool that lets patients maximise limited time
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HSJ KnowledgeInto the patient pathway
Wellbeing clinics for planning life after cancer are responding to a vital need
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HSJ Local
Tees Valley mulls 'shared public health service'
STRUCTURE: Teesside is considering creating a shared public health service for the Tees Valley.
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NewsLocal area team budgets dwarf CCG funds
Several of the NHS Commissioning Board’s local arms will have enormous budgets - dwarfing those of most clinical commissioning groups - HSJ estimates show.
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NewsCall for £1.3bn CCG funding handover
Senior NHS figures are calling for £1.3bn of funding to be handed to clinical commissioning groups, amid signs the NHS Commissioning Board is wavering over whether to topslice the sum from local budgets.
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HSJ Local
West Hants CCG chosen to trial year of care tariff
STRUCTURE: West Hampshire clinical commissioning group has been confirmed as an “early implementer” site to trial a year of care tariff for patients with long term conditions.
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NewsCommissioners could be incentivised not to give services additional protection
Commissioners may be given a “financial incentive” not to designate large numbers of NHS services for extra regulatory protection, future sector regulator Monitor has suggested.
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NewsSome 'abolished' PCT and SHA staff to stay on after April 2013
Some primary care trust and strategic health authority staff may be kept on for up to a year after April 2013 to help “close down” the abolished organisations, it has emerged.
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NewsSHIP cluster U-turns on Lucentis policy after price is slashed
A primary care trust cluster under the threat of legal action for recommending the use of an unlicensed drug has revoked the policy after the pharmaceutical company cut the price of the medicine.
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Blogs
FIlling the void
Ignore the harbingers of doom; clinical leaders, by driving value and putting patients first, can not only address the challenges we face but lead healthcare towards a better future.
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NewsSupport confirmed for four types of clinical network
Clinical networks covering four condition-areas will be centrally-funded and hosted by the NHS Commissioning Board, it confirmed today.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhistleblowing: the way ahead
Strong leaders are essential if future whistleblowers are to prevent harm