All Commissioning articles – Page 205
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NewsPrimary care organisations welcome variation in pathfinders
Variation among the Department of Health’s pathfinder commissioning consortia will help the government to learn lessons about potential models, according to stakeholder organisations.
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NewsBigger consortia safer from risk, say consultants
The deputy chief executive of the NHS has said that commissioning consortia are likely to be “fewer and bigger” than the 500 to 600 figure often cited.
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NewsPathfinder consortia revealed
HSJ has obtained the names of the 54 organisations that will spearhead the government’s plans to hand commissioning over to GP consortia.
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NewsNHS Sheffield chief executive goes to top leadership role at DH
NHS Sheffield chief executive Jan Sobieraj is to be seconded to the Department of Health to work on leadership.
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HSJ KnowledgeQIPP and care plans for long-term conditions
Care planning consultations can yield positive results for patients with long term conditions, as Shahid Ali and colleagues explain
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HSJ Knowledge
Payment by Results - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Payment by Results conference.
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HSJ Knowledge
Payment by Results
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Payment by Results conference.
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NewsPCTs restrict many treatments as overspend looms
Treatment restrictions such as bans on “low priority” procedures or tough referral thresholds are now common across the NHS, HSJ has established.
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NewsDepartment of Health maps end of PCTs and SHAs
The Department of Health will publish a “road map” for the abolition of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities before Christmas, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said. He warned there will be no “slow down” in the process.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: Must no deficit mean saying no to delivery?
According to the recently published Department of Health report on the first quarter of 2010-11, no primary care trusts are forecasting a deficit this financial year.
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NewsBlackpool deficit hints at tough era for foundations
Monitor has found significant financial and governance problems at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NewsTreasury 'Icy cold wind' may end GP independence, says NHS medical director
Taking on commissioning budgets may force GPs to give up their historic independence and potentially integrate with secondary care, the NHS medical director has suggested.
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SupplementsFinance: No Time Like the Present
HSJ examines why financial skills will be in high demand in the coming years
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NewsLondon to fund development pot for pathfinders
NHS London is to pay pathfinder commissioning consortia £1.66 per registered patient to support their development.
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NewsPCT stroke spending at odds with outcomes
London primary care trusts that spend similar amounts on stroke achieve vastly differing outcomes, data analysis shows.
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CommentAli Parsa: the NHS must learn to put quality ahead of price
Under a new approach to procurement, value for money rather than price will determine who is awarded contracts
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NewsBMA warns managers not to instruct consortia
British Medical Association GPs committee chair Laurence Buckman has attacked primary care trusts and strategic health authorities for attempting to control the creation of fledgling GP consortia.
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NewsCompetition panel bans exclusive provider deals
Exclusive framework agreements between commissioners and providers have been dealt a major blow by an NHS cooperation and competition panel judgement.
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NewsPioneering 'NHS Atlas' reveals huge contrasts in care
The Department of Health has for the first time laid bare the huge regional variations in healthcare across England.
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Comment'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'
Am I just imagining it? Or did Andrew Lansley start to modify his combative message to the NHS, its suspicious staff and customers, even before Stephen Dorrell’s striking intervention in the reform debate courtesy of last week’s HSJ?