All Commissioning articles – Page 169
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HSJ Local
Three commissioning support services under development in South West
STRUCTURE: Three commissioning support organisations are working on business cases in the south west of England, but discussions are still ongoing in several PCT areas.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bristol to tender for new mental health provider
COMMERCIAL: Secondary mental health services in Bristol are to be put out to tender after clinicians raised concerns about the quality being delivered by the current provider.
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NewsStandardised GP contract by 2015 is 'naive'
GP practices will agree and move to a new standard national contract within “two to three years”, the NHS Commissioning Board is estimating. The timescale has provoked warnings from leading GPs that the plan is “naive”.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy engaging the workforce helps enhance service innovation
To fully capture and stimulate NHS service innovation, Academic Health and Social Care Networks must go beyond striving to bring remote research into practice and include a focus on workforce innovation. Laurence Benson explains.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to choose the right treatment for community-acquired pneumonia
Clinical commissioners and providers alike need to ensure they are aware of the challenges of community-acquired pneumonia, says Professor Mark Wilcox.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
The judicial process that saw a public consultation on children’s congenital heart services quashed following the Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust’s legal challenge has lessons for future NHS consultations, says David Mason.
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NewsCommissioning support services to get private sector guidance
The Department of Health has invited private sector consultancies to brief NHS commissioning support services at a series of regular national “learning network” events, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Three clusters advertise for commissioning support MD
STRUCTURE: An NHS commissioning support service has advertised for a managing director “with commercial experience” and the “necessary commercial acumen to effectively grow the business”.
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NewsGovernment forced to defend McKinsey bill involvement
The government has denied that there is a conflict of interest between its health reforms and a management consultant advising on them.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow using a tariff system can help community service providers hit targets
Communicating activities to commissioners is easy with the right tariff system, and delivers enhancements in the performance of care teams, say Rachel Simkiss and Alex Hadayah.
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CommentAndrew Lansley: competition is critical for NHS reform
The section of the Health Bill which seeks to increase competition within the NHS is the focus of the growing row over the legislation. Here, in an exclusive article, a defiant health secretary Andrew Lansley champions the importance of competition.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire and Bucks CSS told to address 'footprint' issue
STRUCTURE: The commissioning support service being set up in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire could merge with neighbouring bodies after its first assessment by NHS South of England.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire CCGs mull merger
STRUCTURE: Two Buckinghamshire clinical commissioning groups are consulting on whether to merge.
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CommentCommissioning for Social Value: a vision for people, practices and communities
The Public Services Bill 2010 could help healthcare commissioning and procurement deliver wider social benefits to the community than population health, as David Maher and colleagues explain.
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Comment'There is inherent value in high quality outcomes data'
Patient outcomes can provide value no matter what the NHS looks like.
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CommentDavid Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
Rather than distracting from the NHS efficiency challenge, the Health Bill could help achieve it, writes David Kerr.
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HSJ KnowledgeTelehealth can be at the heart of integrated health and social care
A council plans to integrate health and social care services in their new model of care. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council executive director of adult social care and inclusion Paul Davies discusses how telehealth is fundamental to this service redesign.
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NewsLeadership Academy highlights gender discrimination in NHS
The NHS Leadership Academy is compiling data on the proportion of NHS board members and clinical leaders who are women in order to expose inequalities.
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NewsGovernment risks going backwards on integration, warn MPs
Financial pressures and the government’s reforms risk the level of integration between health and social care actually diminishing, despite ministers restating their commitment to the policy, according to MPs.
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NewsRevealed: CCG funding gulf could 'destablise services'
The first analysis of the budgets set to be given to clinical commissioning groups shows huge variation and has sparked concern about services being destabilised by a shortage of cash.