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NewsMandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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NewsBig Society mutuals scheme underwhelms NHS staff
A flagship Big Society programme to set up a new wave of NHS mutuals has yielded just 19 proposals, less than half the figure set up under the transforming community services programme in 2010 and 2011.
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NewsMike Farrar and Sir Andrew Cash set up consultancy supergroup
A five-person group including some of the most senior figures in the NHS have set up a management consultancy.
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NewsDoubts raised over friends and family test
Statisticians have raised doubts about the validity of the nascent friends and family patient satisfaction test amid claims some trusts are “manipulating” their scores.
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NewsFormal assembly for commissioners will avoid 'usual suspects'
A formal national group for commissioning leaders launched today will help prevent NHS policy being developed only by the “usual suspects”, officials have said.
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NewsSchizophrenia care levels 'catastrophically short'
Care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis is falling “catastrophically short”, a report has found.
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NewsAnalysed: the friends and family test
HSJ Local Briefing is our in-depth analysis of key issues facing the NHS or major health economies. This week we examine the friends and family test being piloted by NHS Midlands and East.
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NewsMandate requires board to guarantee CCG autonomy
Clinical commissioning groups have received a strengthened commitment from ministers to ensure their autonomy, and new powers to rate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board.The board will be held to account on whether it achieves “the best health outcomes for patients by strengthening the local autonomy of CCGs”. The ...
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NewsMandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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NewsDH earmarks £2bn for commissioning system running cost
The government has set the limit for the NHS commissioning system’s running costs at £2bn for 2013-14, including £676m for the NHS Commissioning Board itself.
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NewsProviders to be judged on integration and deaths from poor care
NHS organisations will be judged by whether patients report their care as well integrated, and the number of deaths in hospital attributable to poor care, under the mandate.
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NewsMandate: Mental health sector faces new challenges
Providers of NHS mental health services could be expected to meet new waiting time standards to drive improvements in access, according to the NHS mandate.
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NewsNHS chiefs ordered to explain £3bn underspend
The NHS’s leadership has been ordered by the health select committee to explain which pots of money the £3bn Department of Health underspend handed back to the Treasury came from.
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NewsAnalysis: mandate may allow space for CCGs' freedom
The first NHS mandate appears to allow leeway for clinical commissioning groups’ freedom, but there are suggestions some old style targets will remain.
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Mandate proposes workforce changes to improve care
NHS managers, doctors and nurses can expect to be put under greater scrutiny over the next two years in order to ensure better and safer care for patients.
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Trusts to be rewarded for friends and family test success
For all the talk of easing top-down control of trusts, the mandate mentions some levers that could hit providers.
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NewsNo set targets in revised mandate
The government has rejected the use of set national targets in the final version of its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board, in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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NewsGovernment reveals ‘historic’ first mandate
The government has published its first mandate for the NHS, in what it said was a “historic” moment.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital chiefs warned to check celebrities' access to patients
All NHS hospitals have been told to review their approach to giving celebrities access to patients in light of the allegations about Jimmy Savile