All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 8
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy public and patient engagement must work in the new commissioning system
Patient involvement has always been integral to NHS services, so it is vital that commissioners now ensure local people respond to engagement opportunities, says David Stout.
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HSJ Local
GP commissioners extending new ENT service in Sheffield
STRUCTURE: A community ear, nose and throat service, which is being developed by Central Sheffield GP Consortium, is to be extended to practices across the city.
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NewsExclusive: government defending 'autonomy clause'
The government is resisting attempts to scrap the Health Bill’s so called “autonomy clause”, but close to offering a compromise amendment on the duties of the health secretary, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Local
Nurses raise concerns about commissioners' private company links
COMMERCIAL: Nurses have raised concerns about a second group of GP commissioners in the north of England with links to a private company seeking to provide NHS services.
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CommentSurgery in Yorkshire goes it alone on procedures decision
Haxby and Wiggington Health Centre, a GP surgery just north of York, has helped Yorkshire to make its mark on the latest round of NHS reform.
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NewsDH to 'bring in line' commissioners who ration treatments
The Department of Health is moving to “bring into line” commissioners who are increasingly restricting access to treatments and medicine, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHealth Bill analysis: Lords likely to win policy shifts
Key areas of policy will come under scrutiny as the Health Bill faces its critics in the House of Lords. HSJ analyses likely changes.
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NewsBMA 'alarmed' about CCGs excluding some GPs and LMCs
The British Medical Association GPs committee chair is “becoming increasingly alarmed” by how clinical commissioning groups are developing, he has said in a letter to GPs.
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NewsCCGs call for more choice over commissioning support
Clinical commissioners have called on ministers to allow them to access a greater variety of commissioning support, as soon as possible.
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HSJ Local
Humber and East Yorks cluster announces CCG delegation
FINANCE: From October 2011, four new clinical commissioning group (CCG) committees, led by local GPs, will take the leading role in planning and delivering £1.1bn health care services for Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
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HSJ Local
York GPs tell patients they can pay for NHS-limited procedures
FINANCE: A GP surgery has written to patients who it believed wanted minor surgery which is no longer funded by its primary care trust, offering to carry out the procedures for a fee, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: cluster-sized commissioning group being considered
STRUCTURE: GPs in Cambridgeshire could form a single clinical commissioning group for the entire county, covering two primary care trust areas.
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HSJ Local
Tees PCTs eye regional commissioning support collaboration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts in the NHS Tees cluster are expecting to create commissioning support organisations with others in the North East, or in North Yorkshire.
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NewsThird of CCGs reluctant to become statutory bodies, PM warned
The prime minister and health secretary have been warned that a third of clinical commissioning groups would rather not become statutory bodies because of the burden of bureaucracy involved.
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NewsFarrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat
Plans to introduce “any qualified provider” competition for at least three services from next year will stifle local decision making, according to GP commissioners and NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations
Indications have emerged of planned expenditure on commissioning support. London primary care trusts are predicting costs of £16 per head of population – £5 more than their counterparts in Coventry and Warwickshire, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bolton asked to call halt to planned development of six health centres
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s board will this week be asked to back proposals to call a halt to its plans to build 10 new health centres across the area.
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HSJ Local
DH assurance casts doubt on size and shape of two North East hopeful CCGs
STRUCTURE: A Department of Health led review has cast doubt on the shape and size of two emerging clinical commissioning groups in the North East, it has emerged.
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NewsExclusive: CCG leaders: Gerada is 'misleading' over GP commissioning
Fourteen clinical commissioning groups have accused the Royal College of GPs’ chair of causing “confusion” and “anxiety” by claiming GPs face a conflict between commissioning services and their duty to patients.
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NewsExclusive: GPs 'anxious' about conflicts of interest in commissioning, says doctors regulator
GP commissioners should tell a patient if budgets or referral policies mean he or she cannot access healthcare, and also raise the issue with their commissioning group, the doctors regulator has said.