All articles by David Williams – Page 30
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Exclusive: NHS property company to take on 2,500 PCT staff
The new NHS property company will have 2,500 staff and a portfolio of “several thousand” properties with a total value of around £5bn, HSJ has learned.
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Trusts eye capital gains from surplus NHS land sales
NHS organisations plan to place surplus land equivalent to 350 Trafalgar Squares on the market for housing development in the next few years, latest figures from the Department of Health reveal.
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CCGs choose in-house commissioning support ahead of outsourced services
Clinical commissioning groups are opting to host support functions in-house rather than outsource to “unproven” commissioning support services.
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Three commissioning support services fail key test
Three out of 26 commissioning support service plans have been scrapped and a further nine have been identified as needing “rigorous management”, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced this morning.
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Exclusive: Plans for national communications service scrapped
Plans to set up a national communications service for clinical commissioning groups have been abandoned, HSJ has learnt.
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Local commissioning board offices will be fewer than planned
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced it is rethinking the structure of its local offices to avoid “crowding out” clinical commissioning groups.
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Commissioning board announces regional directors
The NHS Commissioning Board has this afternoon announced that four primary care trust and strategic health authority bosses have been appointed as regional directors.
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Health economies rush to pilot year-of-care tariff
More than 90 sets of providers and commissioners have shown interest in becoming one of the six trial sites for year-of-care tariff trials, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to redesign local structure
The NHS Commissioning Board is planning to redesigning its structure of local offices, and is considering having fewer branches than the 50 which had previously been expected.
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Jim Easton: current squeeze 'just a rehearsal'
The current financial squeeze on health services is only a “rehearsal” for a long-term push to make the NHS financially sustainable, efficiency chief Jim Easton said today.
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DH reveals swift year-of-care tariff plans
The Department of Health has revealed details of its plans to “quickly but carefully” introduce year-of-care tariffs in a bid to cut hospital admissions and encourage community based treatment.
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Commissioning Board guidance to resolve CCG boundary disputes
Guidance from the NHS Commissioning Board has set out new principles for “firming up” clinical commissioning group boundaries, and an elaborate formula for resolving disputed areas.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: the viability of acute services in the Thames Valley area
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: the long term viability of acute services in the Thames Valley area.
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Jim Easton: Board to move quickly on year of care tariffs
The NHS Commissioning Board is moving “quickly but carefully” to adopt year of care tariffs, which are considered essential if the service is to meet its £20bn efficiency challenge.
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Lansley: CCG allocations should be based on age, not poverty
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has suggested clinical commissioning group funding should take into account the age of a population rather than indices of deprivation, arguing age is the “principal determinant of health need” in an area.
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CCG data service support to come from local suppliers
A leaked NHS Commissioning Board document suggests the majority of data “intelligence” services supplied to clinical commissioning groups will have to be provided by local commissioning support units, rather than on a national scale.
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Commissioning board 'could control half of some trusts' income'
The NHS Commissioning Board expects to control half of the income for some trusts through its funding of specialised services.
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Out of hours performance data goes online
A fourfold variation in demand for GP out of hours services has emerged in the first detailed data to allow for comparisons between areas.
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Information strategy release delayed again
The release of the Department of Health’s information strategy, which was already a year late, has been put back again.
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Exclusive: NHS Commissioning Board to appoint all CSS leaders
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced exclusively to HSJ that it will appoint all commissioning support service leaders this spring.