All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 13
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HSJ Local
Bradford and Airedale moves towards two consortia
STRUCTURE: GPs in Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT are looking to create two commissioning consortia.
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NewsGPs don't think they are ready to commission, survey suggests
GPs and primary care staff are not confident in their ability to carry out the roles they would have under the government’s reforms, findings released today suggest.
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NewsBMA GP chief: Prime minister NHS changes 'welcome'
British Medical Association GP representatives have voted to reserve judgement on the government’s NHS reform until full details of its U-turn are clear.
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NewsRoyal College commissioning school receiving nearly £2m for GPs' training
The Royal College of GPs – which has heavily criticised the government’s NHS reform programme – has already been paid £1.5m to help teach GPs how to commission.
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NewsCommissioning board to constrain consortia powers if 'not ready'
The NHS Commissioning Board is likely to place extensive restrictions on the powers of commissioning consortia in cases where it believes they are “not ready” to take on their new role, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: GP commissioning consortia boards must contain a doctor and nurse
David Cameron has announced a radical reworking of the government’s NHS reform plans which will give hospital doctors and nurses mandated places on GP commissioning consortium boards.
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset sets out plans to hand over £500m budgets to consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset will transfer responsibility for a quarter of its budget to the local GP consortium by the end of the year.
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HSJ Local
East Riding of Yorkshire plans to delegate to consortium from October
FINANCE: East Riding of Yorkshire PCT plans to delegate a budget of about £370m to a single commissioning consortium from October 2011.
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HSJ Local
Independent sector GP provider developing consortium in North East
STRUCTURE: An independent sector provider of GP services is developing a commissioning consortium of non-neighbouring practices covering more than 40,000 registered patients.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle PCT and consortia announce savings plans
FINANCE: Newcastle PCT and its two emerging commissioning consortia have announced an agreed “locality delivery plan”, focusing on reducing unplanned hospital admissions and improving out of hospital care.
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HSJ Local
£249m of NHS Western Cheshire budget delegated to GP consortium
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has formally delegated £249.3m of its £413.3m budget to West Cheshire Health Consortium, a report to its May board meeting states.
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HSJ Local
North East Lincs set to hand over children's commissioning
STRUCTURE: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus was due to hand over its children’s commissioning responsibilities to North East Lincolnshire Council this month.
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HSJ Local
Private provider running consortium in Durham and Darlington
STRUCTURE: County Durham and Darlington PCTs - operating as a cluster - have identified seven emerging commissioning consortia, including one non-geographically defined group led by a private primary care provider.
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HSJ Local
South Central GPs back core Health Bill aims
STRUCTURE: GP commissioners in the South Central region have stated their support for the aims of the Health and Social Care Bill in their official submission to the NHS Future Forum listening exercise.
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HSJ Local
Sandwell delegates 75 per cent of its CIPs to consortia
FINANCE: NHS Sandwell has delegated 75 per cent of its cost improvement programmes to GP consortia.
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HSJ Local
PCTs step up transfer of responsibility to consortia
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts in the North East are starting to delegate authority to commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
Nottingham consortium elects chair
WORKFORCE: Nottingham City General Practice Consortium has elected its chair and vice chair.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy consortia need to be focused online
In the modern landscape, newly-formed consortia are bound to want their own websites - but these must genuinely justify their existence, says Precedent strategist Mike Guida.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe need for clarity in evidence based commissioning
Simply producing evidence to aid commissioning is not enough. Emmanouil Gkeredakis and Claudia Roginski report on efforts to understand how it is used.
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NewsBMA: commissioning consortia are excluding salaried GPs
Sessional GPs are being blocked from involvement in emerging commissioning consortia, the British Medical Association GPs committee has warned.