All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 40
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle
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News
Managers call for GP commissioning reforms
NHS managers are showing signs of breaking with government policy by calling for a complete overhaul of practice based commissioning.
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Leader
Darzi review: MPs' shallow analysis sheds no light
The Commons health committee has delivered a devastating critique of primary care trusts.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ's review of 2008: diamonds, debt and Darzi
The NHS’s diamond anniversary year began with Gordon Brown’s relaunch and ended with the health service paying the price for the banking sector’s profligacy. Richard Vize looks back over an eventful 12 months
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News
NHS integrated care pilots to be test bed for 'risky' ideas
Integrated care pilots will be given the chance to shape Department of Health policy up to and including tariff reform, the primary care czar has revealed.Speaking as the DH revealed the 36 organisations shortlisted for the scheme, national clinical director for primary care David Colin-Thomé said the organisations making the ...
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Comment
A future for general practice
Issues such as GP extended hours (where clumsy government handling of the issue and stubborn BMA behaviour pushed the issue to the wire) and the procurement of GP-led health centres (GPLHCs) encapsulate the tensions from which GP services will be shaped in the next 10 years.
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News
Support for practice based commissioning 'static'
Four in 10 GPs are still not supporting the Department of Health's practice based commissioning initiative, new figures reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical Service Redesign, supported by the NHS Institute
Winner King's College Hospital foundation trustInnovative ideas, such as graffiti boards in toilets which engage with target groups, has led to remarkable success for a sexual health centre in the capital
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HSJ Knowledge
World Class Commissioning, supported by the DH
Winner: Tower Hamlets PCTA detailed, three-year commissioning plan was at the heart of a strategy to tackle health needs in the fourth most deprived borough in the country
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HSJ Knowledge
Primary Care Organisation of the Year, supported by Bupa Commissioning
Winner: Sandwell PCTReconfiguration posed a challenge that our winner more than met, notching up great achievements in public health, MRSA reduction and finances
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HSJ Knowledge
What is causing GP referrals to rise?
The 15 per cent growth in GP referrals to hospital in quarter one 2008-09 is putting pressure on both providers and commissioners (see first graph).
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Comment
Steve Feast on leading care across boundaries
Achieving world class outcomes for patients challenges clinicians to ensure all parts of care pathways operate effectively and co-operatively.
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News
GP commissioning costs lots and delivers little
A major study into practice based commissioning has found it to be an 'expensive investment' that has delivered little in terms of better services for patients or financial savings.
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News
SHAs urged not to abuse their power
Strategic health authorities have been warned not to impose their strategies on primary care trusts through the world class commissioning process.
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News
More than 100 step up with integrated care scheme bids
The Department of Health has received more than twice as many bids than expected to set up integrated care schemes.
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HSJ Knowledge
World class commissioning: setting your priorities to deliver improved health outcomes
HSJ gathered some of the biggest names in primary care to discuss the Department of Health’s ambitious world class commissioning programme as part of a live, online debate. Andy Cowper listened in
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS next stage review: the whole package
World class commissioning will be a major driver in improving healthcare quality, by embedding it in the DNA of services
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HSJ Knowledge
GP commissioning: the road less travelled
Performance is patchy in practice based commissioning, but involving clinicians is crucial to the world class programme
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Comment
Mark Britnell on world class commissioning so far
Morituri te salutamus, as the gladiators said in Roman amphitheatres: We who are about to die salute you.
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News
Health inequalities: wealthiest overfunded as the poor lose out
NHS services in the poorest and most needy parts of the country are being systematically underfunded to the benefit of the healthiest and wealthiest.Analysis by HSJ of the budgets allocated to GPs to pay for drugs and hospital care for their patients show that the wealthiest tenth of the population ...