All Commissioning articles – Page 59
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HSJ LocalPrivate providers back on course to land £1.2bn deal
Staffordshire CCGs to press ahead with £1.2bn cancer and end of life care contracts No stand alone NHS provider is bidding for either contract due to be awarded within months NHS England review prompted by collapse of Cambridgeshire’s £750m UnitingCare contract A major £1.2bn procurement for cancer and ...
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Analysed: The CCGs with the biggest overspends
Four of the five most overspent clinical commissioning groups so far in 2016-17 are in the West Midlands, but most still expect to recover their positions by March.
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NewsCCGs overspend budget by £240m but NHS England 'on course'
84 CCGs overspent their allocations but NHS England says majority expect to recover their positions Year-end forecast for CCGs is a £190m overspend, compared to a £10m overspend forecast in July Forecast for overall commissioning budgets has improved due to expected underspends and extra income within central budgets ...
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Expert BriefingWhat's new in care models: A CSU-sized stumbling block
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View. By integration reporter David Williams.
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HSJ LocalVirgin wins contracts worth £65m
Virgin Care has been awarded two five year contracts to provide community and urgent care services for a clinical commissioning group in Lancashire.
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NewsProviders and CCGs consider merging back-office
STP looking at options to integrate non-clinical support services across providers and commissioners Potential for sustainability and transformation funding to be used to buy out private finance initiative Wolverhampton CCG to set up an MCP alongside existing PACS model Modality MCP to be established from April 2018 The ...
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NewsExclusive: CCGs may bypass EU tendering rules
Clinical commissioning groups look set to take a contrasting approach to NHS England over new tendering rules – due to the potential administrative burden and a “ridiculous timescale” that would need to be met.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs warn over 'insufficient' funding for fetal medicine
London CCGs warn funding for fetal medicine services is “insufficient” Five groups say current arrangements could “impact on equitable provision” Comments follow HSJ investigation that revealed babies were “dying unnecessarily” due to flawed funding system Clinical commissioning groups in London have said funding for fetal medicine services is ...
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HSJ LocalCommissioners to take over leading CSU
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and North Durham STP sets out the proposal to convert commissioning support unit into a community interest company After the transition the North of England Commissioning Support Unit will be jointly owned by its CCG customers The CCG owners will be the 11 commissioning groups ...
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NewsExclusive: STPs 'made a good stab' on prevention, says public health chief
Duncan Selbie says STPs had “all have made a good stab” at understanding prevention But some “not where they would want to be”, he says Says main priorities should be adopting interventions consistently and promoting early years’ development, education and employment All sustainability and transformation plans have made ...
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: An unlikely story
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsKing's Fund chief says STPs are not 'secret plans'
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham has written to the health secretary stating that sustainability and transformation plans “offer an important opportunity to improve health and care services”, and that there was no ”concerted effort to keep the plans secret”.
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HSJ LocalFive CCGs confirm shared leader by April
Five clinical commissioning groups in London intend to have a single accountable officer by April 2017.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: NHS non-reorganisation – the next chapter
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsMPs: Services 'likely to suffer' after UnitingCare contract collapse
Services “likely to suffer” in wake of £750m contract breakdown, say MPs “Incompetent, grossly irresponsible” NHS bodies showed business acumen which would “embarrass a child in a sweet shop” NHS England told to address commercial skills gap in NHS after “catalogue of failures” Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning ...
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News18 week waits, September 2016: explore the maps
NHS waiting lists around England, updated for September 2016
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CCGs warned over withholding payments from mental health providers
New guidance published to help mental health sector move away from block contracts Contracts should be either a capitated or episodic and have a proportion of payment linked to outcomes and targets Warning that CCGs withholding outcome based payments from struggling organisations risk creating an “adversarial relationship” Local ...
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: STP first impressions
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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HSJ LocalCity CCGs working towards 'shared leadership' and ACO
Three CCGs could adopt a shared leadership team and governance arrangement Leader of Leeds West CCG says her organisation will not merge with city’s other two commissioners CCGs are conducting a strategic and integrated commissioning review Health leaders in Leeds are exploring new “shared leadership and governance” arrangements, ...
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NewsNHS England loses landmark drug appeal
Court of Appeal upholds judgment that NHS England has power to commission PrEP If NHS England commissions drug it could result in other treatments earmarked for funding not being commissioned Judge criticises Lansley reforms for creating “bureacratic squabbles” between NHS and local government on funding responsibilitie NHS England ...