All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 372
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HSJ Knowledge
A surgical approach to value-based commissioning
Establishing guidelines for a wide range of procedures
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News
Lamb invites bids from 'integration pioneers'
Health economies have been invited to bid to become integration “pioneers” running large-scale experiments in integrated care, in an initiative launched by health minister Norman Lamb.
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News
Updated: NHS England and Monitor plan major reform of payment by results
Clinical commissioning groups will be encouraged to experiment with different ways of paying for care next year, in what could be the start of the biggest reform of NHS payment systems since the introduction of payment by results.
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Blogs
The new NHS can transform mental health care
Under the NHS mandate, new commissioners have the chance to improve mental health care throughout the NHS.
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News
750 patients suffer 'never events'
Hundreds of hospital patients have suffered basic, preventable mistakes that should “never” happen in the NHS during the last four years including having surgical instruments left inside them and operations being carried out on the wrong body part, figures suggest.
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News
Exclusive: NHS England to begin work on 'Expedia' style booking system
NHS England is to begin an ambitious move to create an “Expedia.com” style system for electronic booking of NHS appointments, to replace the unpopular Choose and Book.
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News
Exclusive: Panic over Hunt plan to 'announce' A&E rescue fund
Jeremy Hunt is seeking to announce a £300-£400m fund to “solve” the accident and emergency performance dive, but the money may not be available, according to emails seen by HSJ.
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News
Exclusive: CCG performance and assurance regime unveiled
Clinical commissioning groups will be rated four times a year on their performance and annually on their organisational capability, under a draft assurance regime to be published today.
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News
GP commissioning leader defends CCGs over NHS 111 failure
Blaming local commissioners for the failure of NHS 111 in some parts of the country is a “bit rich”, the president of NHS Clinical Commissioners has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: Oxfordshire's 'outcomes-based commissioning'
Will Oxfordshire’s new approach transform services?
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News
NHS England area teams told to lead A&E recovery
NHS England’s local area teams have been given less than a month to develop accident and emergency “recovery plans” for their patch, the organisation’s interim deputy chief executive has announced.
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News
Addressing hearing loss services 'could save £28m'
The health service could save £28m by introducing a “joined up approach” to diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss and dementia, a charity has said.
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HSJ Local
Virgin wins fifth prison healthcare contract
COMMERCIAL: Virgin Care has won a contract to manage comprehensive primary care services for prisoners at HMP Bullingdon, in a deal worth £6.6m to the private provider over three years.
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News
Exclusive: Ministers want CCG topslice to fund health and social care integration
Part of clinical commissioning groups’ budgets – potentially worth more than £1bn – should be used to fund integration with council-run social care services, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.
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News
Medics slam radiotherapy 'red tape'
A group of doctors has claimed in a letter that changes to NHS commissioning is delaying radiotherapy treatment and putting patients’ lives at risk.
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News
NHS England could 'manage' 111 market
NHS England is to conduct an urgent review of the sustainability of NHS 111 and the market of providers as the timetable for full national roll-out of the service slips further.
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News
One in 10 NHS England posts unfilled as system went live
One in 10 posts at NHS England was unfilled as the organisation took its full powers, despite an “intensive recruitment programme”, board papers show.
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HSJ Local
Imperial clinician appointed national obesity and diabetes director
WORKFORCE: Dr Jonathan Valabhji lead clinician for diabetes Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has been appointed national clinical director for obesity and diabetes for NHS England.
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