All Commissioning articles – Page 249
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News
Joint appointment smooths way for Kingston merger
Kingston primary care trust and council are consulting on plans to integrate. The PCT and local authority have appointed the first joint director of finance as part of a move to promote greater partnership working.
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News
Cornwall's one-site cancer plans run aground
A primary care trust's aim to centralise specialised cancer services has been derailed by the council's overview and scrutiny committee, which wants a full public consultation.
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News
People with learning disabilities let down by NHS, inquiry finds
The independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities has published its findings and its recommendations have been welcomed by the NHS Confederation.Healthcare For All says people with learning disabilities have higher levels of unmet need and receive less effective treatment, despite the Disability Discrimination Act and ...
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News
Welsh trust told to review its performance
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has told Cardiff and Vale trust to undertake reviews of its processes, leadership and governance, as well as its waiting list management.
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HSJ Partners
Online guide offers support to commissioners
A booklet detailing the key NHS information services available to support commissioners has been launched by the NHS Information Centre.
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HSJ Partners
Supporting world class commissioning
Primary care trusts and practice-based commissioning clusters need accurate, up-to-date information to develop better services for patients. Work is under way to ensure the Secondary Uses Service delivers what they need, writes Tim Straughan
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News
Inpatient mental health slammed as commissioners neglect services
Commissioners are neglecting mental health inpatient services despite endemic levels of violence, overcrowding and untrained staff, a damning review has found.Nearly a quarter of mental health inpatient beds are in trusts rated weak by inspectors, according to the first Healthcare Commission review focused on mental health inpatient services.
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News
Mental health managers told: stop posing as Cinderella
Mental health managers have been ordered to promote their services rather than presenting them as a 'bleak Victorian underworld'.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on public health leadership
For much of the last 20 years, public health has faced a huge challenge of marginalisation. A state active model of health was always going to struggle under a government that denied the concept of society.
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News
Bradshaw to bring in firms to boost GP commissioning
Private companies are to help practice based commissioning consortiums put together business cases that primary care trusts can understand.
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News
Mental health being neglected in the elderly
Older people's mental health and well-being is being severely neglected, claims a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research.Its report Older People and Wellbeing estimates 2.4 million older people have depression and predicts the number with mental health problems will rise dramatically over the next 20 years. This will ...
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News
A shot in the arm for community health services
The government is promoting the social enterprise model of service provision, but there are other options available to primary care trusts. Ingrid Torjesen offers an overview
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News
NICE calls for quicker access to specialist stroke treatment
Commissioners and providers should ensure all patients with a suspected stroke are admitted as quickly as possible to an acute stroke unit.
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News
Welsh trusts successful in call for their own abolition
NHS trusts in Wales have succeeded in their unanimous push to bring about their own demise.
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News
18-week pathway figures published
The Department of Health has published data for patients who completed their referral-to-treatment pathway during May 2008.
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News
Councils warn over planned PCT merger
Council leaders have attacked proposals by NHS London to merge primary care trust commissioning functions in the capital.
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News
Data shortfalls hinder world class commissioning efforts
Primary care trust managers have warned that poor data is preventing them making progress on world class commissioning.PCTs told HSJ they felt they had no choice but to commission outside firms for 'social marketing' research on the health needs of their local population. Others said they thought data on services ...
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Leader
The size of the mountain PCTs must climb is becoming clear
With only a few months to go before primary care trusts have to submit their strategic plans, the scale of the world class commissioning challenge is becoming clear.
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News
Summer of suspense for PCTs awaiting funding allocations
Primary care trusts will need to wait until at least October to hear what their funding will be for the next two years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Data collection: Big Brother isn't watching you
Health information has not kept pace with population change. Ruth Thorlby and Veena Raleigh look at efforts to improve collection