All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 14
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HSJ Local
Wolverhampton practice-based commissioners run up £7.84m overspend
FINANCE: Practice-based commissioners overseen by NHS Wolverhampton City have run up a recurrent overspend of £7.84m.
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HSJ Local
Gateshead consortium becoming committee of PCT
STRUCTURE: Gateshead PCT is establishing its single commissioning consortium, called GatNet, as a committee of the board.
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HSJ Local
Three Sunderland PBC groups merge into one consortium
STRUCTURE: Three practice based commissioning groups in Sunderland Teaching PCT’s area are merging to form one consortium commissioning board.
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Two South Tyneside consortia become one
STRUCTURE: South Tyneside PCT’s two previous commissioning consortia - Alliance Consortium and C7 - are forming a single consortium board.
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NewsConsortia authorisation 'window' risks quality
The short “window” to authorise commissioning consortia could undermine quality, according to one of those working for the Department of Health on the reorganisation.
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HSJ Local
Northumberland Care Trust delegates budget to consortium
FINANCE: Northumberland Care Trust has delegated responsibility for £435m spending to a single emerging commissioning consortia, Northumberland Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Local
North Tyneside PCT passes £298m to consortia
FINANCE: North Tyneside PCT has delegated responsibility for £298m spending to two emerging commissioning consortia.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle PCT delegates £344m to shadow consortia
FINANCE: Newcastle PCT has delegated responsibility for £344m spending to two emerging commissioning consortia, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
West Suffolk GPs prioritise referrals and prescribing for savings
FINANCE: Commissioning consortia in West Suffolk have prioritised high volume referrals and prescribing budgets as areas for efficiency savings.
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HSJ Local
GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES
STRUCTURE: An emerging GP consortia has voted to discontinue a local enhanced service agreement for choose and book .
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HSJ Local
NHS South Gloucestershire sets ambitious QIPP plan
FINANCE: NHS South Gloucestershire is planning to make more than £14m of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings during 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Derby City 'sharing' QIPP savings with consortia
FINANCE: Shadow commissioning budgets in Derbyshire for 2011-12 will allocate quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings to GP practices along primary care trust boundaries.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield's four consortia seek joint accountable officer
STRUCTURE: The four emerging commissioning consortia in Sheffield are forming an overarching committee, which will have an accountable officer.
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News
PCTs withholding consortia funding, claims NAPC
Primary care trusts could be setting commissioning consortia up to fail by denying them development funding, the National Association of Primary Care has claimed.
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HSJ Local
Multimillion pound commissioning support tender suspended
FINANCE: A multi-million pound tender process for development support for commissioning consortia across London has been “suspended indefinitely”.
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CommentThe listening exercise needs to reach grass roots voices
The government appears to be listening hard in a bid to appease opposition to the health service reforms - but, as Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill explains, some patient groups’ concerns are still not being addressed.
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NewsPCT clusters may survive as reform pressure builds
A continued existence beyond 2013 for primary care trust clusters looked increasingly likely this week, as the health secretary’s NHS reforms came under huge political pressure.
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HSJ Local
East Lancs Hospitals Trust agrees £307.5m acute contract for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust has secured a £307.5m acute services contract for 2011-12, in what it believes to be one of the first contract negotiations for the year concluded in Cumbria or Lancashire.
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Comment
Ben Gowland: changing the minds of managers in a clinically led NHS
In all the talk of radical health service reforms, one of the factors which has almost been forgotten is the revolutionary shift in mindset required of the NHS manager in primary care.
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HSJ Local
Five commissioning consortia in North Yorks
STRUCTURE: There are five emerging commissioning consortia in North Yorkshire, and a small number of practices which have joined a neighbouring Bradford and Airedale group.