All Primary care articles – Page 82
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NewsExclusive: Vanguard areas call for tender moratorium
NHS England and Monitor are facing calls to exempt ‘vanguard’ areas from requirements to tender services, amid fears that procurement processes could undermine efforts to establish integrated primary, community and acute care models.
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HSJ LocalInvestment firm funds first NHS social impact bond
FINANCE: An investment firm has put £1.65m into what it claims to be the first social impact bond in the health service.
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NewsCCGs given only two weeks to finalise primary care budget arrangements
Commissioners have been left with only two weeks to finalise potentially complex legal arrangements for taking control of their primary care budgets.
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HSJ PartnersDisplay ratings or pay: countdown to CQC deadline
Providers face a statutory requirement to clearly display their CQC rating
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NewsMajor general practice software suppliers agree to share patient data
England’s two biggest general practice software suppliers have struck a long awaited agreement to share patient record data between their systems.
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HSJ LocalFewer smokers using NHS cessation services in Islington
PERFORMANCE: The number of smokers using cessation services in the Islington area has dropped markedly – raising concerns that the local CCG will not achieve its quality premium target for 2014-15
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NewsBiggest hospital trusts absent from care model 'vanguard'
England’s most powerful acute trusts are absent from the new care model “vanguard” sites revealed today by NHS England, but will take part in a forthcoming project on how they can work with small hospitals, HSJ has been told.
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NewsMapped: The new care model 'vanguard' sites
HSJ’s map of the 29 sites identified by NHS England as part of the “vanguard” for its new care models.
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NewsNHS England reveals new care model 'vanguard'
NHS England has selected 29 ‘vanguard’ areas to develop new models of integrated services which can be replicated across the country. The sites include some of the most challenged health economies in England and well established pioneers of joined up care.
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CommentNew care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care
At the heart of the forward view
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NewsMapped: CCGs' primary care co-commissioning status for 2015-16
HSJ’s exclusive map showing which CCGs will be co-commissioning general practice from next month, and at which level of involvement.
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HSJ KnowledgeReach out to GPs and social care to create provider led solutions
Making the move to capitated outcomes based commissioning
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HSJ KnowledgeAppraise be: how reflection can boost GPs' productivity
Don’t fear appraisal: it can actually lead to increased skills and care quality
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NewsExclusive: Manchester deal criticised for lack of GP involvement
Greater Manchester’s £6bn devolution deal has been criticised for excluding GPs from consultation about the new arrangements.
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SupplementsDelivering value supplement: Clinical innovation case studies
Three top examples of innovation in diabetes
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SupplementsDelivering value supplement: New ways to manage diabetes care
A shot in the arm for diabetes care management
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NewsComplex governance questions remain over Manchester devolution plan
Complex questions of governance and accountability will have to be resolved over the coming year to allow the proposed full delegation of primary care and specialised commissioning budgets to Greater Manchester by April 2016.
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CCGs to use primary care powers to develop new care models
The first clinical commissioning groups to be given control of their the primary care budgets have said they will use their new powers to implement the NHS Five Year Forward View’s new models of care and scale up GP services, HSJ has learnt.
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