All Commissioning articles – Page 187
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HSJ Local
Twenty-two contracts signed off late in Yorkshire and the Humber
COMMERCIAL: A total of 22 provider/commissioner contracts for 2011-12 were not signed off at the beginning of the financial year in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Seventeen South East Coast provider contracts signed off late
COMMERCIAL: A total of 17 providers in the South East Coast strategic health authority area did not have their 2011-12 provider/commissioner contracts signed off at the beginning of the year.
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NewsAvoid 'slash and burn' approach to spending cuts - BMA
NHS chiefs should avoid undertaking “slash and burn” cuts in their bid to save money, the British Medical Association has said.
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NewsBMA chair claims reform victory
The British Medical Association chair of council has declared a cautious victory on NHS reform at the union’s annual representative meeting.
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NewsHealth Bill: changes risk ‘paper duties’ and central pressure
Changes to the health bill risk propagating procedural requirements and increasing pressure on the health secretary to intervene, a lawyer has warned.
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NewsHealth Bill: government publishes 181 amendments
The government has tabled 181 amendments to the Health Bill following a review of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial original proposals.
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CommentThe right-to-request primary care trust: one year on
A year ago, City Health Care Partnership became the first social enterprise to ‘go live’ through the right-to-request scheme. On its first anniversary, chief executive Andrew Burnell reports on how they are getting on.
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NewsAuditors to query use of foundations’ resources
A number of foundation trusts are likely to face “qualifications”, querying the accuracy of their 2010-11 accounts, because of questions over their use of resources, auditors have warned.
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HSJ Local
Bradford and Airedale consortium still hopes to cross council border
STRUCTURE: A clinical commissioning group has plans to straddle the border between Bradford Council and North Yorkshire County Council.
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NewsCommissioning groups that cross boundaries may have to reform
Eleven commissioning groups crossing local authority boundaries may have to reform due to new rules announced by the government, HSJ has found.
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NewsHalf of NHS staff pessimistic on patient care
Patient care is set to get worse in the next few years, according to nearly half of NHS staff surveyed in a government poll.
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NewsNicholson: PCT clusters to survive as arms of Commissioning Board
Primary care trust clusters will effectively survive to commission GP services and oversee new clinical commissioning groups from April 2013, it was confirmed this week.
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NewsGroups to commission for 'their whole population'
The Health Bill will make explicit that clinical commissioning groups must commission for “whole populations, not just registered patients”, the government has said.
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NewsHealth secretary and NCB will only intervene when failure is 'significant'
The health secretary will only have powers to intervene directly in the running of national NHS bodies where failure is deemed to be “significant”, the government has stated.
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NewsBoard membership requirements to be set out in regulations
Key changes to the NHS reforms to widen clinical involvement in commissioning will not be written into legislation.
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Nicholson to remain NHS chief executive until 2013 as reform timetable relaxes
Sir David Nicholson will remain NHS chief executive for the whole of 2012-13, as well as leading the NHS commissioning board in its initial stages, the Department of Health has revealed.
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NewsParliament to approve regulations on dissolving failing consortia
New regulations will be introduced on the NHS Commissioning Board’s powers to intervene and even dissolve failing clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsExclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan
The NHS is set to form four regional bodies out of grouped strategic health authorities.
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NewsCommissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson says he will prevent the NHS Commissioning Board becoming “the greatest quango in the sky” by maintaining an “ambition” for the whole country to be covered by active clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsLansley: 'We want to take people with us'
Concessions in the NHS reforms were made under pressure from the medical professions, health secretary Andrew Lansley admitted in a speech to GPs yesterday.