All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 396
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North divide to be united under NCB plans
NHS North East and North West are to be united – along with NHS Yorkshire and the Humber – HSJ understands.
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Health secretary gains powers over NHS Commissioning Board in amended bill
The health secretary is to be given the power to intervene in “particular cases” of “significant failure” by the NHS Commissioning Board, under the newly amended Health Bill.
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Health Bill: changes risk ‘paper duties’ and central pressure
Changes to the health bill risk propagating procedural requirements and increasing pressure on the health secretary to intervene, a lawyer has warned.
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DH to 'rely' on local pricing to extend community services competition
The Department of Health will be “heavily reliant” on locally set prices to encourage competition from “any qualified provider” in community services, it said this week.
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Exclusive: NHS faces 'big problem' if reform timetable slips - Nicholson
The NHS faces a “big problem” if there are further delays to the timetable for developing clinical commissioning groups or moving to an all foundation trust system, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told HSJ.
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Nicholson: PCT clusters to survive as arms of Commissioning Board
Primary care trust clusters will effectively survive to commission GP services and oversee new clinical commissioning groups from April 2013, it was confirmed this week.
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Groups to commission for 'their whole population'
The Health Bill will make explicit that clinical commissioning groups must commission for “whole populations, not just registered patients”, the government has said.
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Patient and public involvement to be strengthened
At least 10 of the 150 amendments the government plans to make to the Health and Social Care Bill concern enhancing patient and public involvement, according to the Department of Health’s full response to Future Forum’s recommendations.
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Parliament to approve regulations on dissolving failing consortia
New regulations will be introduced on the NHS Commissioning Board’s powers to intervene and even dissolve failing clinical commissioning groups.
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Exclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan
The NHS is set to form four regional bodies out of grouped strategic health authorities.
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Commissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson says he will prevent the NHS Commissioning Board becoming “the greatest quango in the sky” by maintaining an “ambition” for the whole country to be covered by active clinical commissioning groups.
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HSJ Knowledge
What happens if the Health and Social Care Bill is scrapped?
In an era of health service reform that has been punctuated with queries of “what next?” it’s worth considering how the health service landscape would look if, as some are speculating, the Health and Social Care Bill is actually scrapped, says Beachcroft public law partner Stephen Hocking.
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Fears raised over two-tier commissioning system
The Department of Health must set target dates for handing budgets to local commissioning groups or an unworkable two-tier system will emerge, senior figures have told HSJ.
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Brakes on competition draw private sector complaints
Private sector players have accused the government of “very significantly” putting the brakes on its plans to extend competition from “any qualified provider” to new areas of the NHS.
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NHS Confederation warns over centralised commissioning power
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar has welcomed the government’s response to the Future Forum report, but warns that commissioning at a local level must be realised sooner rather than later.
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NHS Partners Network criticises independent sector support in government response
NHS Partners Network director David Worskett has criticised today’s government response to the Future Forum report published yesterday.
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Local authorities to have 'formal role' in authorising Clinical Commissioning Groups
Local authority health and wellbeing boards will have a formal role in authorising consortia, the coalition response to the Future Forum has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to manage conflicts of interest in GP commissioning
As commissioning responsibilities will almost certainly leave GPs straddling a conflict of interests, the government needs to quickly establish mechanisms to regulate such conflicts, writes TPP Law senior solicitor Owen Willcox.
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Future Forum: government should stop 'slagging off' managers
The government should stop “slagging off” managers and urgently establish the NHS Commissioning Board to give them more certainty, the NHS Future Forum has said.
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Councils poised to scale back consortia freedoms
Councils will eat into the freedoms commissioning consortia expected to gain if the recommendations of the patient involvement and public accountability group are implemented.