All Commissioning articles – Page 90
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HSJ Local
Somerset CCG mulls early end to provider contracts
FINANCE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is considering whether to release itself from contracts with a number of local providers in a bid to reduce financial pressures.
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HSJ Local
CCG to develop community teams based around GP lists
STRUCTURE: Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is devising a new service model for community healthcare based around GP practice populations.
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News
Exclusive: Trusts received contract offers on deadline day
Some contracts for 2015-16 remain unsigned two weeks after the deadline as some trusts only received their offers on the day they were meant to be signed, HSJ has been told.
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Policy delays risk 'preventable deaths', doctors warn NHS England
Letter says rare conditions drug policy is a “matter of extreme urgency” Doctors warn patient access could be delayed until 2016-17 NHS England to set out timetable for new specialised commissioning process soon Twenty senior doctors and experts have written an open letter to the NHS England board ...
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HSJ Local
GPs sign access and training deal with CCG
COMMISSIONING: GPs in Barnsley have universally signed up to a contract with their local clinical commissioning group requiring them to increase access to services and train their staff.
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Burnham: Social care will benefit from Labour's £2.5bn health cash boost
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham speaks to LGC following the launch of Labour’s manifesto
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HSJ Knowledge
Hit or miss: Lessons from the best and worst A&E performers
The overall picture shows some economies excelled, others struggled
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HSJ Local
GP appointed as clinical chair of Southampton City CCG
WORKFORCE: A GP with 25 years’ experience has started as the new clinical chair of Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group.
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News
63 CCGs take control of primary care budgets despite serious misgivings
Sixty-three clinical commissioning groups have taken on fully delegated responsibility of their primary care budgets despite serious concerns raised by some groups, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
18 week waits, February 2015: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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Trusts reach key waiting target despite winter pressures
Trusts have managed to meet a high profile waiting time target just weeks before the general election.
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HSJ Knowledge
The three things keeping NHS commissioners awake at night
What gives commissioners sleepless nights?
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Labour's 'profit cap' policy faces European legal hurdles, say lawyers
Ed Miliband’s proposal to cap the profits of private sector providers of NHS services at 5 per cent would come up against EU legislation, lawyers have told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
CCG extends £30m community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group has extended its contract for community services with Bromley Healthcare by one extra year to end in March 2017.
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Exclusive: NHS England labelled 'dysfunctional' over drug policy delay
NHS England has been accused of misleading government ministers and labelled a ‘dysfunctional organisation’ over delays in drawing up a prescribing policy for drugs to treat rare diseases.
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HSJ Local
First merged CCG comes into operation
STRUCTURE: The first new clinical commissioning group formed as a result of a merger comes into operation today.
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NHS England speeds up emergency care transformation plan
NHS England will accelerate planned changes to urgent and emergency care services because of poor performance across the sector.
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Revealed: Details of primary care control shift
The clinical commissioning groups taking on full control of GP services in their area this week will be responsible for performance managing poor practices and approving practice mergers, according to documents seen by HSJ.