All Commissioning articles – Page 249
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Managers called on to heed maternity standards
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has called on NHS commissioners and managers to follow a comprehensive set of maternity standards in their service and workforce planning.
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Consultation on vascular check programme
The Department of Health is consulting on the modelling undertaken by its analysts, which shows its proposed programme of vascular checks for patients aged 40-74 is likely to be very cost-effective and result in significant health improvements.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS60: What's the verdict?
We invite three health pundits to pull no punches and deliver their judgments on the past and future of the NHS
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NHS60: If the care fits
Experts predict a future in which primary care will be delivered by a variety of suppliers in integrated packages tailored to individual needs, reports Ingrid Torjesen
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Prison mental health services - jailhouse blues
Faced with huge numbers of mentally ill offenders, London's forensic mental health services are struggling to cope. Rebecca Norris reports
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has played down comments that appeared to criticise the foundation trusts' regulator Monitor.
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DH aims to slash commissioning support delay
The Department of Health plans to slash the time it takes primary care trusts to engage commissioning support by cutting its own commercial directorate out of the process.
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Johnson calls for 'champions of quality'
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.
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Polyclinics, polycautious
The King's Fund has scrutinised the dream of polyclinics and urges planners to be cautious. By Candace Imison and colleagues
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Mark Britnell announces changes to commissioning framework
The time it takes to use the framework for procuring external support for commissioners is to be slashed under plans unveiled at the NHS Confederation conference.
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Provider arms should scrutinise unprofitable services
Primary care trust provider arms must be prepared to question the future of unprofitable services in order to succeed as standalone organisations, the NHS Confederation conference has heard.
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Embrace commissioning, Britnell urges Confed delegates
Lord Darzi's next stage review will include exciting opportunities for commissioning staff, including freedoms based on those for foundation trusts, Department of Health director general of commissioning and system management Mark Britnell has told the NHS Confederation conference.
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NHS Comparators wins national award
The NHS Comparators website scooped the Best use of Information award at the annual ASSIST awards.
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NHS Confederation calls for debate on top ups
The NHS Confederation has called for a debate on whether patients who use private treatment should be excluded from NHS care.
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PCTs under fire on new GP scheme
Independent providers have slammed primary care trusts' attempts to procure new services under a flagship Department of Health scheme. They say the equitable access to primary medical care scheme is 'appallingly poorly managed'.
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Labour's NHS vision let down by reforms
New Labour's reforms have failed to deliver its vision to transform the health service, a major report has concluded.The joint Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission report finds the overhaul of the health service under the 2000 NHS Plan has, in many areas, fallen well short of expectations.
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Confed warns of globalisation risks
The long-term sustainability of the NHS faces multiple threats from globalisation, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Nick Clegg pledges GP rewards in poorer areas
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said he wants to 'slant the playing field in favour of GPs working in the most deprived areas'.
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Service planning: shock of the new
Sherford is a new town being built near Plymouth and plans for its health services promise to test support for new models - just don't mention polyclinics. Lynn Eaton takes a look