All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 378
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News
Threefold variation in CCGs' spend on outside support
There is more than a threefold variation in the amount clinical commissioning groups intend to spend on support services, an HSJ investigation has found.
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News
Choose and Book faces delays
The new Choose and Book electronic appointment booking system is “very unlikely” to be in place by the NHS Commissioning Board’s December deadline, industry figures told HSJ this week.
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News
Patient leaders concerned over CCG lay member strength
Some clinical commissioning groups have appointed lay people with insufficient experience and skills, patient leaders have said.
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Blogs
Commissioning board fumbles on waiting times
The draft NHS contract penalises hospitals who treat their long-waiters, but not if they keep them waiting. Why?
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News
New IFR policy could 'snuff out' innovation
The NHS Commissioning Board’s plans to develop national policies for new treatments after just five individual funding requests could stifle innovation, it has been warned.
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News
Commissioning board specialised service move 'could destabilise small trusts'
The national standardisation of specialised services could prompt a wave of reconfiguration and destabilise smaller trusts, it has been claimed.
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News
Hunt: NHS 'should go' paperless by 2018
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced the NHS “should go paperless” by 2018 as he outlined his digital records vision for the health service.
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News
Commissioners have rationed cataract surgery on inferior evidence, Keogh admits
Around half of all primary care trusts have restricted access to cataract surgery, with the majority basing their decisions on inferior clinical evidence, the medical director of the NHS has told MPs.
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Blogs
A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Everyone Counts
A review by the King’s Fund policy director Anna Dixon of the planning guidance for CCGs the board released in December.
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News
Geographical variation in new drug uptake revealed
The huge disparity in uptake of medicines and technologies across the NHS has been laid bare by the first “innovation scorecard”.
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News
Nicholson 'really sorry' for HR problems
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told HSJ he is “really sorry” for the poor experience suffered by NHS staff whose jobs are under threat as a result of the reforms. However, he claimed that given the scale of the change, the human resources pprocess had been ...
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News
Sir David embraces partnership but 'hasn't given up on grip'
The NHS commissioning board will not operate a “hierarchy of deference” but its chief executive has not “given up on having a grip”.
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News
Nicholson: leading hospitals to be reshaped by commissioning board
The board will use its position as “a big, powerful commissioner” to reshape England’s largest teaching and specialist hospitals, says Sir David Nicholson.
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Nicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations
NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson believes he should survive any criticism levelled at him by the forthcoming report into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Comment
Commissioning board makes its move
Is the board’s rejection of the CCG funding formula a declaration of independence?
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News
Redundancy threat for 3,500 NHS managers
Around 3,500 NHS managers were told over Christmas that they are at risk of redundancy, HSJ has learned.
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News
Providers 'nervous' about commissioning board role in contract disputes
NHS providers have called for clarification about who will arbitrate in contract disputes with commissioners once strategic health authorities are abolished.
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HSJ Local
North and West Reading CCG authorised with 14 conditions
STRUCTURE: North and West Reading clinical commissioning group has been authorised with 14 conditions, more than any other CCG in the first wave of authorisation.
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HSJ Local
Newbury and District CCG authorised with five conditions
STRUCTURE: Newbury and District Clinical Commissioning Group has been authorised with five conditions.
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News
Cameron demands extension of friends and family test
The prime minister has given his backing to plans to roll out the friends and family test to primary care, as part of a package of measures to be unveiled today to improve the quality of services.