All Commissioning articles – Page 231
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NewsFoundation trusts plan to bolster earnings through slow pay growth
Foundation trusts believe they can grow their annual earnings until 2012 by keeping pay bills down.
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NewsQuality and outcomes framework: GP incentives harm care quality
The quality of care provided by GPs has decreased for some conditions where they do not receive performance related pay, a study has found.
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NewsDH data shows no link between NHS spending and patient outcomes
There is no clear relationship between primary care trust spending on killer diseases and outcomes for patients, the latest data from the Department of Health suggests.
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NewsDH scraps deadline for PCT provider arm strategies
The Department of Health has scrapped its centrally set deadline for primary care trusts to create provider arm strategies. It comes amid fears of PCTs obsessed by organisational structure making poor decisions.
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NewsAmbulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care
Complex forces at work in urgent care mean too many costly ambulance trips are being taken by non-emergency patients. Dave West analyses the figures and looks at the explanations
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NewsMatching best PCT performers could cut NHS costs by 20pc
The NHS could make savings of up to 20 per cent if all primary care trusts spent as efficiently as the best, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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News‘Unprecedented’ review by PCT finds progress after Mid Staffs scandal
South Staffordshire primary care trust has published what it calls an “unprecedented” review of care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, after installing its own staff to check on standards.
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NewsCall to extend clinical outcome data on choose and book
The Department of Health’s GP czar David Colin-Thomé has called for clinical outcome data to be included in the NHS’s electronic booking system choose and book.
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HSJ KnowledgePCT commissioners' fertility conference video archive
Is wishing to start a family a medical need or lifestyle choice? This is just one of the questions facing commissioners.
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HSJ KnowledgeWays to buy in to the lung cancer strategy
To maintain momentum in fighting lung cancer, commissioners must be thinking about awareness services and multidisciplinary teams, reports Jennifer Taylor
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NewsPCT rebranding still has a long way to go
Getting local people to understand the role of primary care trusts has proved difficult, so has the NHS rebranding helped? HSJ polled the public to find out
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NewsLords raise questions on swine flu preparedness
The Lords science and technology committee has highlighted “serious questions” about the UK’s preparedness for swine flu.
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NewsPharmacists argue for national contract to pay for flu pandemic work
Pharmacists have warned the lack of a standard contract to pay them for taking on extra work during the flu pandemic could hinder the national response to the outbreak. Payments for community pharmacists are being determined through 86 separate local negotiations.
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NewsNICE rebuffs PCTs’ call to help identify more areas for savings
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has rejected calls to identify more drugs and treatments that should be used less - or not at all - ahead of NHS investment cuts.
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CommentCally Bann on sporting achievement
OK, so the meeting to square off the ward upgrade plan, the summer theatre closure plan, the length of stay plan, the day case rate improvement plan, the 18-week plan, the demand management plan, the winter planning plan, the income plan and the 7.5 per cent cost improvement plan was ...
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NewsDH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims
The Department of Health is to launch an independent review into allegations of bullying and harassment against East Midlands strategic health authority.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to take a whole family approach to mental health
The latest guidance on treating parents with mental health problems suggests a whole family approach is the surest way to improve care and end stigma
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NewsResigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
The chair of an acute trust has resigned, calling on NHS chief executive David Nicholson to investigate the behaviour of East Midlands strategic health authority in pressurising him to meet access targets.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E.
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CommentJoan Saddler on patient centred services
Actively seeking out and acting on patient feedback to shape services is still far from the norm but is fundamental to putting quality at the heart of the NHS.