All Commissioning articles – Page 89
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NewsExclusive: Trusts struggle to achieve weekend standards during weekdays
Hospitals in the East Midlands are struggling to meet new clinical standards for seven day services even during normal weekday hours, according to a region-wide analysis.
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HSJ KnowledgeExplained: The legal challenges to CCG decision making
The deciding factors and main routes of challenge
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NewsToday is your last day to nominate top clinical leaders in healthcare
Make your nominations now - they close today
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NewsExclusive: Concern in NHS England over Hunt's CCG 'points' rating system
Clinical commissioning group leaders and some NHS England officials are questioning a move by Jeremy Hunt to impose a ‘league table’ style points ranking for CCGs, well placed sources have told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: Improvement bodies overhaul may take further six months
A six month review of the health service’s improvement organisations has finished, but may be subject to a further extended implementation phase, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners dip into reserves to fund trust’s tariff option
FINANCE: Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group has had to raid its reserves in order to cover the costs of implementing its main acute trust’s enhanced tariff option, HSJ can reveal.
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Exclusive: Clinical leaders 'more willing to challenge diktats', research finds
Clinical leaders are ‘more willing to challenge or ignore diktats and messages from above’ than their managerial colleagues in clinical commissioning groups, research shared exclusively with HSJ has found.
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NewsTariff proposal threatens delayed discharge schemes
Schemes to reduce the number of patients with a delayed discharge have been scaled back because commissioners can no longer afford to fund them under current tariff arrangements, trust chief executives have told HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeSurvey: The five things the next government should not do
Readers listed rising waiting lists, a reorganisation of commissioning and political interference
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NewsAnalysis: Some CCGs expect deficits up to three times higher than planned
A clutch of clinical commissioning groups ended 2014-15 expecting deficits up to three times higher than planned, even as the majority saw their outlook for the year improved by a funding rebate.
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HSJ LocalLondon Ambulance asks CCGs for £27m extra funding
FINANCE: London Ambulance Service Trust has asked clinical commissioning groups to contribute more than £27m extra funding to help it recruit more staff and buy new vehicles.
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NewsMore CCGs tendering services due to fear over competition rules
More than 40 per cent of commissioners say their organisations are inviting competition for NHS services due solely to their concerns about controversial competition rules, an HSJ survey has found.
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NewsExclusive: CCG leaders fear political priorities would come first under HWBs
A large majority of commissioning leaders believe clinical priorities would lose out to political priorities if lead responsibility for NHS services was handed to health and wellbeing boards, an exclusive HSJ survey has found.
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HSJ PartnersCCG barometer: Mix of confidence and concern
CCGs are confident they can implement new care models of care described in the forward view, but they will need local and national political backing, says Peter Edwards
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NewsCCG barometer survey: interactive graphics
Full figures showing clinical commissioning group leaders’ views about the prospect of health and wellbeing board being responsible for health services, and the impact of competition rules.
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LeaderCCGs' role is being questioned from all directions
There is a risk in making CCGs subsidiary to health and wellbeing boards
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NewsSurvey: Third of CCGs consider limiting access amid cash squeeze
More than a third of clinical commissioning groups are considering introducing limits on access or eligibility for services this year amid huge financial pressures, the latest HSJ survey of CCG leaders suggests.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury considering health, care and welfare budget link
The Treasury is undertaking a quick turnaround project in the run up to the general election examining the potential savings from bringing together spending on health, social care and some welfare payments.
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HSJ LocalCornwall non-profit community provider rated ‘good'
PERFORMANCE: The first non-profit provider of NHS services to be examined under the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime has been rated ‘good’.
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NewsSocial care leader warns integration will not solve financial woes
Integration of health and social care will help improve services but will not be the answer to the financial challenge facing the sector, the new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Service has said.