All Commissioning articles – Page 81
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HSJ Local
Staffordshire transformation body appoints chair
WORKFORCE: The new body in Staffordshire created to draw up a region-wide transformation programme has appointed an ‘independent’ chair to oversee its work.
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News
Exclusive: CQC to review care for newborns following baby’s death
A national review of the quality of care for seriously ill children is being launched by the Care Quality Commission following the death of a baby more than a decade ago.
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Comment
Bold tariff reform can transform NHS service delivery
Agree multi-year prices to shift the focus
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News
NHS England expects £150m rise in mental health spending
NHS England expects commissioners to spend at least £150m more in cash terms on mental health services this financial year. However, the Department of Health has admitted it will fall £107m short of its promised £250m target for investment this year in children’s mental health services.
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HSJ Knowledge
The NHS must manage the unmet mental health needs in prison
Meeting the human rights of mentally ill inmates
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HSJ Local
18 week waits, June 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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HSJ Local
East London CCG chair to stand down
WORKFORCE: The chair of Newham Clinical Commissioning Group will step down from his role at the end of September.
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HSJ Local
Country's biggest CCG subject to NHS England ‘directions’
FINANCE: The biggest clinical commissioning group in the country has been issued with NHS England ‘directions’ because of its longstanding financial troubles.
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News
'Other bodies' could take powers from failing CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups failing for more than a year could have their responsibilities removed and handed to other organisations, new guidance indicates.
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HSJ Local
NHS England takes action against financially troubled CCGs
FINANCE: NHS England has imposed legal directions on two clinical commissioning groups after they built up large deficits.
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News
Struggling emergency care systems to get winter buddies
A buddy system for poorly performing urgent and emergency care systems will be introduced this winter in an attempt to help the ‘most challenged’ areas.
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News
700 jobs at risk as NHS England signs £330m Capita deal
NHS England has completed a £330m, seven year deal to outsource primary care support services to Capita, putting more than 700 jobs at risk.
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News
Survey: What commissioners want to happen to their unsustainable providers
Most commissioners with unsustainable hospital providers would prefer to see those organisations reform by establishing joint ventures or by joining with GPs, an HSJ survey indicates.
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News
CCG barometer: 'Worrying' lack of confidence in dealing with deficits
Nearly 30 per cent of commissioning leaders have low confidence in their groups’ ability to address financial problems, an HSJ survey indicates. More than two-fifths identify a lack of upfront investment funding as one of their major barriers to delivering efficiency savings.
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News
CCG Barometer: explore the data
Findings from HSJ’s summer 2015 CCG barometer, carried out with Capsticks, which focus on commissioners’ approach to financial problems, and preferred solutions for unsustainable providers.
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HSJ Partners
Barometer: Another year of change beckons for CCGs
Establish relationships that look at patient need
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News
CQC to assess whole health systems
The Care Quality Commission is to pilot assessing whole health systems as part of a move towards a more place based approach to regulation.
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HSJ Local
CCG will no longer tender for stroke care pathway
A North Staffordshire clinical commissioning group has said it does not intend to go out to tender for a prime provider to cover stroke care across its region.
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News
NHS England clarifies financial directions to CCGs following regulator letter
NHS England has written to clinical commissioning groups to give ‘clarity’ over statements issued to providers by Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority this week.