All Commissioning articles – Page 204
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DH figures show pathfinder GPs are set to bust budgets
A significant number of the new “pathfinder” commissioning consortia are on track to bust their budgets this financial year, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsCommissioning group rapped for rules breach
The NHS competition watchdog has recommended the North West specialised commissioning group is barred from entering into long term “framework agreements” with providers.
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NewsComputer models could help NHS save £20bn
The NHS could use computer simulations to help find £20bn savings needed by April 2015.
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NewsNHS operating framework reasserts central 'grip'
Strategic health authorities will hold back 2 per cent of primary care trusts’ allocations next year to ensure funds are available to meet the “costs of change”.
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Providers freed to set their own referral to treatment targets and set prices below tariff
The revised operating framework has freed providers to set prices below the tariff and set their own referral to treatment targets, opening the field further to competition.
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NewsHSJ exclusive: Lansley appoints first commissioning board chief
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has formally appointed Sir David Nicholson as the first chief executive of the NHS commissioning board.
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NewsBMA criticises government for 'disregarding' the concerns of doctors
The government has ignored doctors’ “major concerns” about its radical health service reforms, the British Medical Association has claimed.
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NewsNo roles for PCT and SHA staff with new health and wellbeing boards
Former primary care trust and strategic health authority staff should not expect to find jobs with the new health and wellbeing boards, the Department of Health has warned.
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NewsConsortia to get £25-35 per head for running costs
Commissioning consortia will have an allowance for running costs in the range of £25-35 per head of population by 2014-15, the government has announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe outstanding ideas that will transform healthcare
HSJ and healthcare partnership Circle inaugurate a prize that will recognise the brightest and bravest thinking that seeks to influence health policy today.
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NewsCall for action on teen pregnancy services
The number of teenage girls falling pregnant will rise unless the government takes action, experts have warned.
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NewsConsortia should share finance directors, says NHS finance chief
Some commissioning consortia are likely to share finance directors, the deputy NHS chief executive has confirmed.
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CommentSharing healthcare costs, pooling healthcare risks
Size seems to be back in vogue. There are two main reasons for the “big is beautiful” organisational trend, and it is important to distinguish between them, as their impacts on that overriding £20bn NHS savings target are quite different.
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NewsPCTs expected to be ‘ordered’ to cluster
The Department of Health is likely to make mergers of primary care trusts a requirement in its operating framework for 2011-12, HSJ has been told.
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NewsPCT chiefs help drive new structure
Five primary care trust chief executives have left their organisations for full time roles developing the new commissioning infrastructure.
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CommentMichael White: caution and openness
Watching Andrew Lansley introduce MPs to his “nudge” white paper on public health, I was struck by how much it is still a first draft and by how enthusiastic the new generation of Conservative MPs is for bossiness.
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LeaderBattleship Lansley ploughs on through the fog of reform
HSJ readers will be familiar with the tensions inherent in the government’s reforms which are now beginning to leak into the public ken.
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NewsMP questions strategic health planning base
It remains unclear who would be responsible for vital strategic health planning during the transition to commissioning consortia and beyond, a shadow health minister has warned.
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Comment'Don't allow healthcare and public health improvement to be divided'
The raison d’être of local government is that elected councillors best represent residents’ concerns.