All Commissioning articles – Page 86
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Leader
What is an 'acceptable' deficit for the NHS provider sector in 2015-16?
No Grexit for NHS providers
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News
Health secretary could overturn devolved decisions
Decisions made under Greater Manchester’s proposed devolved health and social care system could be overturned by the health secretary if they think the decisions are “wrong”, a minister has indicated.
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Lamb: £22bn NHS efficiency savings ‘virtually impossible’
The plan for £22bn efficiency savings outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View are ‘virtually impossible’ to achieve, a former health minister has said.
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News
Exclusive: NHS warned focus on finance risks 'disastrous consequence'
The chair of the inquiry into care failings at Morecambe Bay has warned of a “disastrous consequence” for the NHS if it focuses too much on financial savings at the expense of patient safety.
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Comment
Staff engagement is the NHS's greatest asset but it's yet to reach full potential
It’s a pre-condition for high performing healthcare
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HSJ Local
Stockport 'likely to be final specialist site', sources say
STRUCTURE: Senior figures in Greater Manchester’s provider sector believe Stockport is the favourite to be the region’s fourth site for emergency surgery, HSJ understands.
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News
Hunt: 5,000 new GPs the 'maximum' in five years
Jeremy Hunt has said recruiting 5,000 additional GPs would be the ‘maximum’ possible within the next five years.
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HSJ Local
CCG uses Dragons' Den process to encourage innovation
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners in Oldham have sparked interest from dozens of small and medium sized companies by launching a Dragons’ Den style process for new technology and innovations.
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Comment
Lords help us: End of life provision falls short of supporting the dying
The Palliative Care Bill
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News
Give AHPs more powers to unlock new care models, says NHS England official
Plans to give allied health professionals the ability to prescribe medicines without the input of a doctor will help the NHS develop new models of care, an NHS England official has said.
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News
Exclusive: CCGs choose not to use power to ditch QOF
There is a little appetite among clinical commissioning groups to move their member practices off the national GP pay for performance framework, despite recently being given powers to do so, HSJ has found.
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Leader
Hunt’s deal for doctors forces primary care to be top priority
GP plan cements Hunt’s plan for the NHS
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News
Updated: CSU procurement halted in devolution drive
Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester are set to establish a shared support service function. It means they will not immediately have to go to market to procure external services.
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HSJ Local
NHS 111 procurement abandoned in West Midlands
COMMERCIAL: The procurement of a new NHS 111 service to span 16 clinical commissioning groups in the West Midlands has been abandoned after no ‘acceptable’ bids were put forward.
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News
NHS England admits 'rush' to spend GP premises fund
NHS England has signalled it will adopt a ‘strategic approach’ in its use of a £1bn fund for primary care premises, admitting that the first year of investment had been a ‘rush’.
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Everington: 'Equal number' of consultants as GPs should sit on CCGs
As many medical consultants as GPs should sit on the governing bodies of their local clinical commissioning groups, a member on HSJ’s Future of NHS Leadership inquiry has said.
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HSJ Local
18 week waits, April 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty