All NHS Buckinghamshire CCG articles – Page 2
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News
NHS England sets new rules for CCG mergers
Clinical commissioning group mergers must create footprints that help deliver sustainability and transformation plans, and which are “future proofed” for the emergence of accountable care providers, under new NHS England guidance.
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HSJ Local
STP-wide commissioning team to take powers from CCGs
“Commissioning executive” covering seven CCGs to be set up to help commission services across Buckingham, Oxfordshire and Berkshire STP Mental health, ambulance services and 111 will be under board’s new remit The executive will also be asked to sign off a single operating plan to cover STP footprint ...
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News
Southern CCGs join leadership and target merger
Two clinical commissioning groups in south of England have joined their leadership and plan to merge if they are permitted to, they have told HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: More good CCGs will merge than bad ones
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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HSJ Local
Commissioners to expand alternative to QOF
COMMISSIONING: A clinical commissioning group that suspended parts of the GP quality and outcomes framework is planning to expand its alternative payment scheme.
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News
Revealed: Leaders named for eight major STP patches
Work to plan the five-year transformation of NHS services in two of England’s biggest cities is to be led by local authority chief executives, NHS England revealed this afternoon.
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News
Exclusive: Another CCG agrees variation from QOF
A clinical commissioning group in the south of England has agreed a variation to the GP quality and outcomes framework with nearly all its practices, to encourage more community based care.
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Medicines Management
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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News
NHS Commissioning Assembly shut down
The NHS Commissioning Assembly is to be closed down with immediate effect, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
GPs privately urged to prescribe Tamiflu despite concerns
WORKFORCE: NHS England is encouraging GPs to prescribe Tamiflu to care and nursing home patients as a preventative measure, despite concerns about its effectiveness.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prevention is a better investment than cure
Preventing illness is a wiser use of money for CCGs
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HSJ Local
Optum scoops £150m contract in Thames Valley and Wessex
COMMERCIAL: Private provider Optum has won a three-year contract to carry out acute commissioning services for 18 Wessex and the Thames Valley clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
Two CSUs announce formal merger
STRUCTURE: Two commissioning support units have announced they are entering into a formal merger.
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HSJ Local
CCG reviews intermediate services amid referrals rise
PERFORMANCE: Clinicians at Aylesbury Vale clinical commissioning group have begun a “comprehensive review” of intermediate services.
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HSJ Local
Aylesbury Vale hits surplus target
FINANCE: Aylesbury Vale clinical commissioning group finished 2012-13 with a £1.3m surplus, despite overspends on acute care.
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Supplements
Anaphylaxis policy: steps to better care
Six steps to creating a clear and consistent policy which will improve care quality and cut costs
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Supplements
Anaphylaxis: taking on a sensitive subject
Better prescibing and training can enhance care for anaphylaxis
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HSJ Local
Aylesbury Vale CCG heading for deficit
FINANCE: Aylesbury Vale clinical commissioning group is forecasting a £1m deficit for 2012-13, driven largely by demand for unscheduled care services.
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