Primary Care – Page 212
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HSJ Knowledge
Make tough patient choices a bit easier
Offering patients true choice in healthcare means giving them the right information at the right time and providing them with the skills and support to make informed decisions
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Sophia Christie on becoming a world class commissioner
Every primary care trust is participating in the first stage of the world class commissioning assurance process. World class commissioning is not the little brother of foundation trust development, or even Big Brother, although it can seem like that.
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Child safety is a double whammy for NHS managers
The death of Baby P has been a stark wake-up call for trusts - both in terms of whether children in their care are safe and whether staff on the front line are properly supported. Charlotte Santry reports
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PCTs struggle to cope with cost of increased referrals
Primary care trusts are struggling to cope with the financial fallout of increased referrals, with some now expecting the extra costs to drive them into deficit.
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London PCTs pin hopes on debt plan to avert mergers
London's primary care trusts are hoping a high profile bailout of the capital's historic debt will demonstrate they can work together - and avert the threat of mergers.
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NHS could be £13bn short in five years
There could be a £13bn gap between what the NHS has been assessed as needing and what it will get by 2013, the executive chair of the foundation trust regulator Monitor has warned.
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Comply with NICE or pay, Care Quality Commission tells trusts
Healthcare providers could be shut down for failing to comply with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance under plans to make adherence a requirement of the Care Quality Commission's registration scheme.
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DH urges work on NHS informatics
NHS commissioners have been told to step up work on informatics as part of a renewed drive to boost information use in service redesign.
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Huge leadership challenge to implement Darzi review
Managers have been warned to expect a 'huge leadership challenge' in an operating framework devoted to implementing the next stage review.
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NHS operating framework 2009-10
NHS told to cap spending as more than half of£1.8bn surplus is lostHuge leadership challenge to implement Darzi reviewPCTs get green light for CQUINNHS operating framework: winners and losersManagers' responses to the NHS operating frameworkWhat the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAsDownload the NHS operating framework for 2009-10
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NHS told to cap spending as more than half of £1.8bn surplus is lost
The dire state of public finances means the NHS will be permitted to spend less than half the surplus it has generated over the last two years.
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NHS operating framework: winners and losers
PCTs whose funding targets have increased most and least under the new formula
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What the operating framework means for PCTs, providers and SHAs
PCTsContracts with PCT provider services by AprilPreparing for legal right to choiceUpgrading and increasing GP premisesReductions in mixed-sex accommodation"Pricing framework" for community servicesProvidersNew MRSA minimum standardPayments linked to qualityMeeting safeguarding children duties"Least restrictive environment possible" for mental healthcareSHAsProducing talent and leadership plansEnsuring providers use funds to improve trainingWorkforce plans for ...
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NHS Direct ups its in-house response after referrals criticism
NHS Direct is planning to set itself a higher target for the proportion of calls it deals with 'in-house'.
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Welsh Assembly announces health transition directors
The managers who will oversee the creation of new health organisations in Wales have been announced by the Assembly government.
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PCTs get green light for CQUIN
Primary care trusts have the green light to link payment to local quality improvement goals with the unveiling of the methodology for the commissioning for quality and innovation framework (CQUIN).
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DH looks to PCT property sales to balance its books
The sale of up to 6.5bn of primary care trust property will help the Department of Health out of the looming 16bn hole in its capital spending limit.The limit imposed on the DH and NHS by the Treasury will be jeopardised next April when new accountancy rules mean private finance ...
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Health secretary Alan Johnson announces dramatic reforms to PCT funding
The Department of Health has unveiled dramatic reforms to primary care trust funding allocations.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced today that PCTs would receive £164bn funding for 2009-10 and 2010-11, equating to an average of £1,612 per person by 2010-11.
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PCTs urged to master social marketing
Primary care trusts must invest more in expertise in social marketing and profiling, a King’s Fund report recommends.Commissioning and Behaviour Change: kicking bad habits is based on a year-long programme of research by the think tank into how people can be convinced to live more healthily.
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HSJ Knowledge
BME leadership: secure people's place of honour
People from minorities face many obstacles in their careers. The NHS needs to view every individual fairly, says Lubna Haq