All Commissioning articles – Page 253
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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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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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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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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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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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HSJ Knowledge
World class commissioning: quality assurance
How can PCTs be sure they are on the right path to world class commissioning? We look at the quality assurance system developed by the Department of Health to help clinicians and managers achieve their targets
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Making practice based commissioning perfect
Practice clinicians are being seen as the linchpins of future local procurement of quality care services, as Andy Cowper explains
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Health inequalities in primary care
Benchmarking can help PCTs tackle deprivation and achieve performance and funding practices that compare with the best, says Nigel Crew
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Supporting world class commissioning
Primary care trusts will be able to call on a rich network to help find their way with world class commissioning
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World class commissioning: joint working
Joint working between PCTs and local authorities means a two-pronged attack on health inequality
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Engaging the public in commissioning
Engaging patients and the public has long been policy mantra. Now legislation is making it a reality. Andy Cowper explains
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Future of commissioning: progress report
In December 2007, the Department of Health and the NHS launched the vision for world class commissioning.
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HSJ Knowledge
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
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New guidance to develop PCT boards
The Department of Health today published guidance on boosting the skills and competence of primary care trust leaders.PCTs will be expected to use the guidance to commission local programmes to develop board members.
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Trusts face green targets in bid to cut carbon footprint
The NHS will lead the way in tackling climate change by shrinking its carbon footprint by 60 per cent by 2050, the government has proposed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Darzi review: Give old people a seat at the modernisation table
Services for older people are falling down government priority lists. Two consultant nurses argue for specialist care, in hospital and the community, to be made explicit in reform plans
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DH outlines world class commissioning test
The Department of Health has published the framework for the world class commissioning assurance programme, but primary care trusts must wait until the summer publication of health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review to learn what incentives and rewards will be earned by the highest achievers.
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Making joint strategic needs assessments work
Joint strategy to identify the service needs of local people became a duty last month. Renu Bindra looks at how some areas are making the process a success
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Commercial directorate's future in the air
The future of the Department of Health's commercial directorate is in doubt following the resignation of its director general Channing Wheeler.
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Is world class commissioning the answer?
Two healthcare management experts lock horns over whether the drive to raise the standard of commissioning really can transform the quality of care