All Commissioning articles – Page 98
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NewsConcern over CCG dialysis transfer
The health secretary has come under fire from charities and MPs for agreeing to transfer the responsibility for renal dialysis commissioning from NHS England to clinical commissioning groups
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NewsExclusive: NHS England primary care decisions 'unlawful', High Court rules
NHS England is acting unlawfully by failing to properly involve and inform patients about its primary care commissioning decisions, a High Court judge has said.
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HSJ PartnersCoordinated systems help ensure people die where they choose
Explore the potential of electronic coordination systems
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HSJ PartnersHow providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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HSJ PartnersCommissioning special report: What’s good care when it’s at home?
How one CCG is delivering more care in the community
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NewsTwo commissioning support units plan to merge
Two commissioning support units have announced they will formally merge.
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HSJ LocalNEW Devon sets out service cut plans
FINANCE: Surgical procedures for prostate cancer, hernias and cataracts are among a raft of treatments that could be restricted or stopped in one of the country’s most financially challenged health economies.
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CommentThe three ways to drive transformational change in the NHS
How a new programme will strengthen the NHS
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SupplementsSurvey results: putting pathology services to the test
How can healthcare organisations get the greatest benefit from pathology?
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NewsStaffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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HSJ PartnersSupport end of life care at home through partnership working
Marie Curie makes a difference in Durham and Darlington
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HSJ LocalOxfordshire better care fund plan 'unrealistic'
Oxfordshire commissioners failed to submit a realistic better care fund plan in part because they were distracted by work on other local integration initiatives, they have admitted.
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CommentPolicymakers were too optimistic about the better care fund
Rethink how the integration policy works
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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NewsCSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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HSJ KnowledgePrevention is a better investment than cure
Preventing illness is a wiser use of money for CCGs
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NewsPatients 'denied treatments' because of 'Kafkaesque' commissioning regime
Patients are being denied access to life changing treatments because parts of NHS England’s “Kafkaesque” commissioning regime appear to have ground to a halt, clinicians and charities have warned
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NewsNo cash for co-commissioning running costs, NHS England confirms
Clinical commissioning groups will not be awarded extra funding to run primary care co-commissioning, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsExpensive drugs to be cut from cancer drugs fund
NHS England is to start evaluating the cost effectiveness of medicines available through the cancer drugs fund in a bid to bring the budget under control