All Primary care articles – Page 148
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NewsDo GPs have 'the balls' to decommission hospital care?
GPs must not “shirk” the challenge of downsizing NHS hospitals, GP and health commentator Phil Hammond argues in this week’s HSJ.
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Comment'Time to scrap GP exception reporting'
We must now scrap exception reporting by GPs in the quality and outcomes framework.
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NewsMajor questions remain over commissioning, say insiders
Major questions remain over the successful formation of commissioning consortia, despite the fast spread of “pathfinders”, according to those overseeing the process.
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NewsInnovation Expo to profile QIPP programme
Sir David Nicholson and health minister Earl Howe are spearheading the Department of Health’s support for the 2011 Healthcare Innovation Expo, which takes place in London’s Docklands on 9-10 March.
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NewsNicholson: NHS commissioning board will step in if consortia falter
In the first interview since his appointment as chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, Sir David Nicholson has outlined the measures it could take against poorly performing commissioning consortia.
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NewsEarl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
Health minister Earl Howe has denied there is any conflict between opening up healthcare provision to more competition and encouraging collaboration between providers.
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NewsMarmot voices 'nudge' doubts
The president of the British Medical Association has voiced doubts over the government’s “nudge” approach to public health.
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NewsNHS market faces closer EU attention
Government plans to allow “any willing provider” to compete for most NHS clinical contracts could expose the health service to challenge under European competition law, experts warn.
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NewsPCT directors warned over cluster job conditions
Primary care trust directors are being warned not to move into new cluster roles without firm assurances about pay and job descriptions.
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NewsCommissioning board should run large scale 'experiments' - UnitedHealth head
The NHS Commissioning Board should run a series of large scale “experiments” designed to test solutions to the growing burden of chronic disease, UnitedHealth’s president of global health Simon Stevens claimed this week. Successful programmes should be made “part of the NHS benefits package”.
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NewsPCT grant cuts Dorset shortfall
Dorset county council’s budget shortfall will be cut by £2.8m after an extra government grant was afforded to the county’s primary care trust.
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NewsThree single-practice consortia made pathfinders
The average population size among pathfinder commissioning consortia remains large, but there are three single-practice groups among those announced today.
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NewsHealth secretary announces 89 more pathfinders
More than half the English population is covered by pathfinder commissioning consortia after the Department of Health announced a further 89.
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NewsMan held over hospital staff attack
A man is being held by police in connection with an attack at a hospital that left two staff members and five patients injured.
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NewsFlu jab restriction 'not down to cutting costs'
The government’s chief medical adviser has insisted that cost-cutting was not to blame for the decision not to vaccinate all under-fives against flu.
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News'Direct management' of under-par consortia an option, says Nicholson
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has set out the measures he anticipates using on commissioning consortia that are not competent by the go-live date.
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News‘System weaknesses’ expose trusts to staff and patient fraud
NHS trusts exposed themselves to more than 500 actual and potential fraud risks over a six month period, an unpublished analysis has revealed.
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Leader'Conspiracy of silence hides true extent of poor GP performance'
Andrew Lansley claims primary care trusts had to be abolished because they failed to commission effectively - an arguable accusation.
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HSJ Knowledge'Through the lens of commissioning consortia the world seems quite different'
To flip or not to flip, that was the wicked question challenging my overloaded synapses recently. In Cambridgeshire we set off down the GP consortium route over a year ago, delegating responsibility to growing numbers of commissioning consortia.
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CommentNick Bosanquet: Five steps to security
The pre-Christmas snow shower of documents did little to gather momentum towards better services. Rather, it added to the risk of planning blight for new organisations which have to find personnel and trial their powers and budgets. These are my five steps to rescue the change programme: