All GPs articles – Page 68
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HSJ Local
GPs opt for a single CCG for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
STRUCTURE: A single clinical commissioning group has emerged as the “clear preference” for GPs in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCCG performance and payment regime allowed to include 'process' measures
Clinical commissioning groups will be given “at least monthly” updates on their performance – on “processes” as well as outcomes – by the NHS Commissioning Board, it has been confirmed.
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CommentLondon practices readying for first GP outcomes scorecard
Next week sees the unveiling of the capital’s GP performance scorecard, after much to-ing and fro-ing over the data between NHS London and the GPs.
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NewsHakin: pace of CCG development next year will 'be dramatic'
The Department of Health commissioning lead has warned that there will be a rapid step change in pace to establish clinical commissioning groups, equivalent to a “very big train coming down the track”.
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NewsGPs claim CCGs are being 'bullied and coerced' by PCTs
A survey of doctors involved in emerging clinical commissioning groups has found 60 per cent report “being coerced or bullied” in how they set up the organisation, according to a new survey.
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HSJ Local
East Suffolk and Ipswich CCG merge to become single body
STRUCTURE: Two of Suffolk’s three clinical commissioning groups have merged, it has been announced, while the remaining two CCGs will share some senior posts.
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NewsExclusive: All patients to have access to GP record by 2015
All patients in England will have online access to their GP record by 2015 after ministers slipped out a major shakeup of information policy in this week’s Growth Review.
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NewsBMA: GPs want CCGs big enough to avoid outsourcing of commissioning
The British Medical Association has said clinical commissioning groups should “urgently review and where necessary change their structures” so they are big enough to host their own support staff.
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NewsExclusive: Government to link GP and hospital data
The relationship between the quality of GP and hospital care is set to be revealed for the first time by the publication of data which will detail the complete patient pathway.
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NewsBMA declares full opposition to reforms
Doctors’ leaders have declared all-out opposition to the government’s NHS shake-up amid claims they will give too much influence to the private sector.
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NewsCameron backs changes to GP sign off powers
The prime minister has backed calls for GPs to be stripped of their responsibility for signing people off work for long-term sickness.
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HSJ Knowledge
Neurology services in need of new headache pathways to improve productivity
The consistent failure to properly manage headache referrals have put unwelcome pressures on clinical neurology services already struggling with capacity. New pathways for headache patients could relieve some of the pain, says Hedley Emsley.
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HSJ Local
CCG to fund diabetes diet service in East Sussex
STRUCTURE: A clinical commissioning group in East Sussex is to fund a two year pilot of a community dietetic service for diabetes patients.
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HSJ Local
First summary care record goes live in Surrey
PERFORMANCE: Surrey’s first summary care records were successfully created at a GP practice this month.
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NewsExclusive: NHS begins planning CCG authorisation 'pipeline'
The NHS has begun constructing a “pipeline” to authorise clinical commissioning groups, in an effort to avoid a log jam before the April 2013 target.
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HSJ Local
Notts City issuing out of hours tender
COMMERCIAL: The PCT is launching a tender for GP out of hours provision.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham's only remaining red-rated CCG disbands
STRUCTURE: An inner city clinical commissioning group is being disbanded after being red rated.
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NewsCCGs may be 'ill-equipped' to meet information governance standards
Clinical commissioning groups will be subjected to an increasing range of information governance requirements, but may be may be “ill-equipped” to meet the more rigorous standards, official guidance has said.
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NewsOmbudsman names doctor in swearing row
The Health Service Ombudsman has taken the unusual step of publicly naming a GP who has refused to compensate a patient for causing her distress.
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HSJ Local
Competition panel moves to second phase of NHS Peterborough investigation
COMMERCIAL: The NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel is to conduct a more detailed investigation of a complaint that NHS Peterborough breached competition rules in attempting to close a primary care access centre.