All Commissioning articles – Page 167
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HSJ KnowledgeGuidance on producing an any qualified provider implementation pack
The chance to produce an AQP implementation pack offered potent insights into how the service area should develop. Sheena Hennell explains how one PCT cluster went about their project.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to appoint all CSS leaders
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced exclusively to HSJ that it will appoint all commissioning support service leaders this spring.
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NewsCSSs to collaborate on national support functions
Commissioning support services are likely to be closely involved in the four national scale commissioning support functions, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
SHIP CSS to take more than 350 staff from PCT cluster
WORKFORCE: Commissioning Support South, the commissioning support organisation for the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth cluster, is expected to inherit 363 staff members from primary care trusts.
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NewsExclusive: CCG authorisation requirements and timetable revealed
Clinical commissioning groups will have to meet 118 authorisation requirements to be approved to take over from primary care trusts in April next year.
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NewsYork FT must change gatekeeping role, says competition panel
The competition regulator has ruled against a deal between a primary care trust and a hospital which saw the latter refer some patients who it went on to treat itself.
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SupplementsNew tools for new commissioners: an HSJ special supplement
This week’s exclusive 28-page commissioning supplement brings a range of key topic articles to HSJ’s audience that will help commissioners to achieve more in their role.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow trusts can get value for money commissioning pathology services
HSJ looks into the top issues facing CCGs in commissioning pathology services.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe legal implications of EU procurement law for the NHS
David Lock QC looks at the legal lessons for NHS commissioners procuring services.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow EU procurement directives could impact health service commissioning
Procurement proposals put forward by the EU could have significant implications for health service commissioners if they are passed, as Irfan Ullah and Jessica Kohler explain.
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NewsNHSCB patient role ‘too information focused’
Patient and public representatives have raised concern that the NHS Commissioning Board may appoint an informatics specialist rather than a “true patient champion” to a senior director role.
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News
CCG leaders: full list
Information is from HSJ research. In some cases clinical commissioning group leaders are changing, and will change over the nextyear, as groups make and change their decisions. This list was compiled in March 2012. HSJ intends to publish updated lists in future. Information updated in summer 2012 is available in ...
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LeaderHSJ…more for healthcare leaders
One thing unites HSJ readers, whether they have a clinical or non-clinical background, work in the NHS or provide services from the private sector: they are all leaders.
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NewsVoluntary redundancies dominate PCT pay-offs
Two thirds of the cost of paying off primary care trust managers to make early financial savings went on allowing them to retire early or volunteer to leave the NHS.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
Could we see CSSs regulate CCGs?
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HSJ KnowledgeHow will CCGs assure the quality of care they commission?
Clinical commissioning groups have an opportunity to reverse a declining trend, and take responsibility for the improvement of care quality, says Paul Zollinger-Read.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy clinical commissioners will be in search of a new approach
It has become clear that a new kind of commissioning will be needed to meet the many challenges ahead, say David Colin-Thomé and Georgina Craig.
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Comment'The NHS needs to be better at adopting innovation'
Sir Michael Rawlins on the importance of innovating.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow trusts are getting smarter about business intelligence
In our first monthly examination of the state of key healthcare support services, Daloni Carlisle finds many trusts are upgrading their business intelligence systems.
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NewsPCTs must not focus on ‘fantastic’ pasts
Handover documents produced by primary care trusts have focused too much on past achievements and not enough on concerns for the future, the official overseeing the transition to the new commissioning system has told HSJ.