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Commissioning consortia

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North East CSS passes checkpoint 2

18-May-2012
Devon CCGs confirm authorisation plans

9-May-2012
Trio of CCGs could be among first to gain authorisation

4-May-2012
CCG eyes joint commissioning with local council

3-May-2012
Trust put finances ahead of waiting lists, Monitor suggests

24-Apr-2012
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly appoints new medical director

23-Apr-2012
Portsmouth CCG appoints GP to lead role

19-Apr-2012
New patient group formed in North of Tyne

5-Apr-2012
'All staff' in Berkshire cluster to transfer to new bodies

5-Apr-2012
First public board for East CCG

4-Apr-2012
£500k spike in Bolton Health Consortium prescribing overspend

4-Apr-2012
Five Arden CCGs merge into three

30-Mar-2012
£1.3m overspend forecast for Eastern Cheshire clinical commissioners

30-Mar-2012
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG plans to provide commissioning support in-house

30-Mar-2012
Manchester CCGs to take on acutes with united commissioning pact

22-Mar-2012
CCGs halt three-year activity rise

9-Mar-2012
North of Tyne CCGs sharing chief officers

2-Mar-2012
North East appoints interim commissioning support lead

2-Mar-2012
South Tyne and Gateshead PCTs name preferred accountable officers

2-Mar-2012
Second CCG condemns health bill and 'bureaucratic' authorisation process

1-Mar-2012
Exclusive: national commissioning leads CCG to merge

1-Mar-2012
Smallest CCG told: merge tomorrow

29-Feb-2012
GPs suggest 'radical' approach for Mid Staffs future

22-Feb-2012
Almost no staff plan to leave Derbyshire cluster before PCTs disbanded

17-Feb-2012
North Cumbria hospital rebuild affordable, commissioners to be told

17-Feb-2012
Three north Tees emerging CCGs merge into one

16-Feb-2012
Two south Tees emerging CCGs merge into one

16-Feb-2012
Buckinghamshire CCGs mull merger

10-Feb-2012
West Cheshire clinical commissioners set out clinical priorites

8-Feb-2012
CCG: East Cheshire Trust dependent on ‘significant reconfiguration’

8-Feb-2012
Surrey health and wellbeing board backs bill

2-Feb-2012
Croydon out-of-hours care failures exposed

2-Feb-2012
Surrey and Kent CCGs 'non viable'

26-Jan-2012
MD of Somerset CCG steps down

23-Jan-2012
Somerset CCG passes assurance visit

20-Jan-2012
Emergency care pressure drives NHS Cumbria secondary care overspend

20-Jan-2012
Competitive tendering will be ‘as important’ as any qualified provider

18-Jan-2012
Fourteen CCGs in North of England have structure problem

16-Jan-2012
CCGs in Derbyshire 'confused' over finances and lacking 'coherent strategy'

16-Jan-2012
'Common principles' for commissioning support offer emerging in Birmingham and Solihull

10-Jan-2012
Dorset cluster running out of staff

5-Jan-2012
Signs of change emerging in the North East

5 January 2012
Two Croydon GP groups merge

4-Jan-2012
Sutton and Merton to have one CCG per borough

4-Jan-2012
Surrey has 10 emerging CCGs

22-Dec-2011
Cambs move to one CCG and several 'local commissioning groups'

22-Dec-2011
Six Cornwall CCGs merge to become two - including one of the largest in England

22-Dec-2011
Birmingham and Solihull decide on five CCGs but not exact membership

21-Dec-2011
'Race split' Milton Keynes CCGs agree to merge

21-Dec-2011
North East Lincs CCG delegated adult social care budget

20-Dec-2011
Bradford and Airedale reports three emerging CCGs

20-Dec-2011
Five GP groups become one CCG in East Lancs

20-Dec-2011
Three Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale emerging CCGs become one

20-Dec-2011
Five County Durham CCGs become two

19-Dec-2011
Two Bolton emerging CCGs become one

19-Dec-2011
Berkshire cluster scraps health centre plan amid financial constraints

16-Dec-2011
Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT

14-Dec-2011
Board report confirms preference for single Cambs and Peterborough CCG

14-Dec-2011
'Untested' IT procurement agreed in Derbyshire

13-Dec-2011
Lincolnshire, Humber and North Yorkshire to form single CSO

13-Dec-2011
Sheffield CCG delegated £709m and asked for £5m 'recovery plan'

13-Dec-2011
South Tyneside hospital spending 'not sustainable in future years'

9-Dec-2011
North East PCTs pursue single commissioning support organisation

9-Dec-2011
GPs opt for a single CCG for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

6-Dec-2011
East Suffolk and Ipswich CCG merge to become single body

29-Nov-2011
CCG to fund diabetes diet service in East Sussex

22-Nov-2011
Consultants working on 'clear and credible plans' with North Tyne CCGs

22-Nov-2011
Birmingham's only remaining red-rated CCG disbands

21-Nov-2011
Somerset Partnership fails to find GP for senior post

17-Nov-2011
Whittington plans to split benefits of contract 50:50 with GPs

15-Nov-2011
More than 200 PCT staff aligned to CCG roles

14-Nov-2011
Derbyshire identifies AQP priorities

14-Nov-2011
Exclusive: prominent CCG chair fears DH will impose 200,000 population minimum

11-Nov-2011
Leicestershire and Rutland CCGs to take over full relevant commissioning budget

7-Nov-2011
FT chair resigns after political pressure

2-Nov-2011
Salford practice excluded by CCG for overspend is set to rejoin

1-Nov-2011
Birmingham CCGs present 'significant challenge' on size and geography

31-Oct-2011
Three quarters of Birmingham CCGs rated 'red' in pre-authorisation test

27-Oct-2011
North East PCTs mull region-wide commissioning support

27 October 2011
No agreement reached on Barnsley CCG arrangements

25-Oct-2011
SW clusters press ahead with development of commissioning support

24-Oct-2011
GP commissioners extending new ENT service in Sheffield

21-Oct-2011
Plymouth hospital trust warns local CCGs to work together over council boundaries

21-Oct-2011
Finance 'capacity gap' at Leicester City worsens as resources are shared with CCGs

19-Oct-2011
Derbyshire agrees ambulance commissioning plan

19-Oct-2011
West Hampshire CCG becomes a pathfinder

17-Oct-2011
BANES rejects GPs claim for responsibility payment

13-Oct-2011
Surgery in Yorkshire goes it alone on procedures decision

13 October 2011
NHS Somerset delegates community and mental health commissioning

11-Oct-2011
NHS London offers GPs training to smooth passage into CCGs

11-Oct-2011
Stoke-on-Trent CCG makes new appointments

6-Oct-2011
Referral management failing to deliver savings in South East Essex

5-Oct-2011
Humber and East Yorks cluster announces CCG delegation

5-Oct-2011
York GPs tell patients they can pay for NHS-limited procedures

4-Oct-2011
Exclusive: cluster-sized commissioning group being considered

3-Oct-2011
Tees mulls acute paediatric centre reduction

30-Sep-2011
Tees PCTs eye regional commissioning support collaboration

30-Sep-2011
Six Warwickshire CCGs likely to become four

29-Sep-2011
'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners

29-Sep-2011
Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey

29-Sep-2011
Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees

28-Sep-2011
DH assurance casts doubt on size and shape of two North East hopeful CCGs

26-Sep-2011
Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks

22-Sep-2011
Arden cluster plans commissioning support service

21-Sep-2011
GP plans may result in ‘even greater reductions in funding’ for Countess of Chester

8-Sep-2011
Exclusive: fixed costs leave CCGs just £9 per head for commissioning

8-Sep-2011
Western Sussex Hospitals introduces 24/7 thrombolysis

5-Sep-2011
GPs commission new Norfolk community COPD service

5-Sep-2011
GP leads for West Hampshire CCG announced

2-Sep-2011
Chair appointed for Bury’s shadow clinical commissioning group

30-Aug-2011
Bolton GP commissioners forecast to overspend delegated budgets by £1.4m

24-Aug-2011
NHS Somerset delegates medicines to GPs

15-Aug-2011
Lambeth moves to single emerging CCG

12-Aug-2011
All practices within Shropshire County PCT have signed up to a single emerging CCG

12-Aug-2011
All Warwickshire practices join four CCGs

11-Aug-2011
North Yorkshire and York practices join five emerging CCGs

11-Aug-2011
Wolves GPs form one large and one small consortium

11-Aug-2011
One large and one small CCG emerging in Walsall

11-Aug-2011
All Devon practices members of eight emerging CCGs

10-Aug-2011
Nearly all Staffs practices in CCGs

10-Aug-2011
CCG chiefs appointed in Arden area

9-Aug-2011
Single Bristol GP practice not signed up to one of three emerging CCGs

9-Aug-2011
Two practices in Redcar and Cleveland not in CCG yet

9-Aug-2011
One Plymouth practice not signed up to PCT-wide CCG

9-Aug-2011
Three Newcastle practices not yet member of CCG

9-Aug-2011
Sheffield moving to single clinical commissioning groups

8-Aug-2011
Two practices remain outside a clinical commissioning group covering the rest of Wakefield

3-Aug-2011
Leeds and Bradford and Airedale form late PCT cluster

26-Jul-2011
Aylesbury GP premises plan will endanger QIPP savings

19-Jul-2011
Two London clusters to explore joint commissioning

15-Jul-2011
London cluster aiming for CCGs to take over all commissioning in nine months' time

15-Jul-2011
Bexley Care Trust ‘stand-off’ over cluster revealed

14 July 2011
NHS managers to face tighter checks on behaviour

11-Jul-2011
Responsible officers to sit with commissioning board

7-Jul-2011
Cambridgeshire GPs may have to reform commissioning structures

5-Jul-2011
NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney staff transfer to CIC

30-Jun-2011
Barnsley agrees 'way forward' on commissioning groups

29-Jun-2011
Proposed commissioning groups will be 'unsustainable'

29-Jun-2011
All but seven Leeds practices in emerging clinical commissioning groups

24-Jun-2011
London consortium writes to CCP over 'monopoly' merger

23 June 2011
Bradford and Airedale consortium still hopes to cross council border

22-Jun-2011
East Riding of Yorkshire forms emergent GP commissioning group

21-Jun-2011
West Yorkshire cluster names director

17-Jun-2011
Consortium lead elected for Brighton and Hove

14-Jun-2011
Councils poised to scale back consortia freedoms

13-Jun-2011
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly social enterpise stalls

10-Jun-2011
Bradford & Airedale agrees consortia management budgets

10-Jun-2011
Bradford and Airedale moves towards two consortia

10-Jun-2011
Doctors urge Cameron to speed Hinchingbrooke takeover

10-Jun-2011
NHS Wandsworth plans Referral Management Centre

9-Jun-2011
South Central transition costs to top £80m this year

9-Jun-2011
South Central consortia leads involved in QIPP and given budgets

8-Jun-2011
Bournemouth and Poole considers regional shared services

8-Jun-2011
NHS Somerset sets out plans to hand over £500m budgets to consortium

6-Jun-2011
East Riding of Yorkshire plans to delegate to consortium from October

6-Jun-2011
Independent sector GP provider developing consortium in North East

3-Jun-2011
Newcastle PCT and consortia announce savings plans

1-Jun-2011
£249m of NHS Western Cheshire budget delegated to GP consortium

31-May-2011
North East Lincs set to hand over children's commissioning

31-May-2011
Private provider running consortium in Durham and Darlington

31-May-2011
Sandwell delegates 75 per cent of its CIPs to consortia

27-May-2011
PCTs step up transfer of responsibility to consortia

26 May 2011
Derbyshire PCTs told to be less 'controlling'

24-May-2011
Gateshead consortium becoming committee of PCT

19-May-2011
Three Sunderland PBC groups merge into one consortium

19-May-2011
Two South Tyneside consortia become one

19-May-2011
Online seminar: driving standards up and costs down

19-May-2011
Commissioning debate centres on the South

19 May 2011
North Tyneside PCT passes £298m to consortia

18-May-2011
Northumberland Care Trust delegates budget to consortium

18-May-2011
Newcastle PCT delegates £344m to shadow consortia

18-May-2011
GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES

16-May-2011
Derby City 'sharing' QIPP savings with consortia

12-May-2011
Sheffield's four consortia seek joint accountable officer

12-May-2011
Five commissioning consortia in North Yorks

6-May-2011
North East mental health FT building GP links

4-May-2011
GP commissioning executive takes up reins in Rotherham

26-Apr-2011
Oxfordshire GP consortium elects leader

21-Apr-2011
North Tyneside consortium picks chair and chief exec

19-Apr-2011
Doncaster establishes PCT-wide consortium as board committee

14-Apr-2011
NHS Bassetlaw identifies £5.7m of disinvestments

14-Apr-2011
Barnsley consortia 'can't become pathfinders'

11-Apr-2011
Barnsley commissioning plans 'stall' as consortium declines to merge

7-Apr-2011
Lord Howe: 'Unsustainable' NHS needs reforms

7-Apr-2011
Exclusive: national social enterprise could handle communications for GP consortia

5-Apr-2011
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to cluster

23-Mar-2011
Rotherham PCT developing one consortium

11-Mar-2011
Nottingham PCT director to join consortia

1-Mar-2011
Camden PCT hopes to delegate to single consortium

1-Mar-2011
Four consortia emerging from Warwickshire practices

1-Mar-2011
Sandwell developing three commissioning consortia

1-Mar-2011
Heart of Birmingham GPs joining five consortia

1-Mar-2011
Single Telford and Wrekin consortium

1-Mar-2011
Single consortium emerging for Shropshire County

1-Mar-2011
Barnsley FT giving consortium 'breathing space'

1-Mar-2011
Bournemouth and Poole to lose chief exec in clustering arrangements

28-Feb-2011
Commissioning change 'delaying QIPP' at Newcastle FT

28-Feb-2011
Cornwall PCT engages with public on NHS reform

28-Feb-2011
'Historic' three way cluster announced for Devon

28-Feb-2011
Stockton PCT to pick shadow consortium board

25-Feb-2011
Torbay Care Trust commissioning staff to transfer to NHS Devon

25-Feb-2011
Plymouth pathfinder pledges to work with local PCT and providers

25-Feb-2011
Lack of enthusiasm for leadership among North Somerset GPs

25-Feb-2011
Single consortium to take commissioning roles in Hartlepool

25-Feb-2011
Three consortia in South Tees

25-Feb-2011
Three consortia for Waltham Forest

24-Feb-2011
Five consortia to cover Derby City and County PCTs

24-Feb-2011
Kirklees looks set to have two consortia

24-Feb-2011
Oxfordshire PCT to delegate most commissioning in April

24-Feb-2011
NHS Enfield predicting £11.2m deficit for year-end

24 February 2011
Two consortia emerging in NHS North Tyneside

23-Feb-2011
NHS Newcastle sees two consortia emerging

23-Feb-2011
Single consortium for Northumberland Care Trust

23-Feb-2011
NHS Surrey names 11 consortia

23-Feb-2011
NHS Worcestershire to delegate £593m to consortia

23-Feb-2011
Sutton and Merton to delegate upwards of £309m

23-Feb-2011
South Gloucestershire PCT planning with single consortium

23-Feb-2011
Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning

23-Feb-2011
South Birmingham PCT delegating to three consortia

23-Feb-2011
Lambeth eyes one consortium with three localities

23-Feb-2011
Eight consortia identified in Norfolk

21-Feb-2011
One consortium to cover Luton TPCT

21-Feb-2011
NHS Havering polyclinic tender put on hold by GPs

18-Feb-2011
NHS Wandsworth proposes separate commissioning board for community hospital

18-Feb-2011
South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust has not engaged with GPs sufficiently on its FT bid, say commissioners

18-Feb-2011
Stoke-on-Trent delegates to city wide consortium

17-Feb-2011
North Lancs seeks to pass budget to three consortia

17-Feb-2011
GPs vote on three consortia for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

17-Feb-2011
NHS Kingston's successor consortium pulls rank on the PCT cluster

15-Feb-2011
Consortia must involve non GPs - Zollinger-Read

15-Feb-2011
NHS County Durham developing consortia delegation plans

14-Feb-2011
Darlington PCT developing commissioning delegation plans

14-Feb-2011
Two commissioning consortia emerging in Wolverhampton

14-Feb-2011
Single Calderdale consortium developing delegation plans

14-Feb-2011
Swindon PCT commissioning development at early stage

14-Feb-2011
Leicestershire GPs opt for three consortia

14-Feb-2011
Leicester GPs opt for three consortia

14-Feb-2011
Knowsley opts for two consortia after merger

14-Feb-2011
NHS Bolton holding elections for two consortia

14-Feb-2011
Sunderland sees three consortia emerging

10-Feb-2011
Two consortia emerging in South Tyneside

10-Feb-2011
Gateshead pathfinder to take on urgent care and prescribing

10-Feb-2011
NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland GPs to take over minor injuries

9-Feb-2011
Liverpool PCT sets out finance challenges for GP commissioners

9-Feb-2011
East Lancs PCT gets GPs on board with public health campaign

9-Feb-2011
Sefton developing two commissioning consortia

8-Feb-2011
Southampton plan to delegate urgent care to city-wide consortium

8-Feb-2011
NHS Hampshire gather consortia around acute trusts

7-Feb-2011
Northumberland mental health trust seeks GP relationships

7-Feb-2011
GPs involved in Mid Yorks 2011-12 contract

7-Feb-2011
NHS Wakefield involving lead GPs in acute contract

7-Feb-2011
Sheffield 'likely' to delegate commissioning soon

7-Feb-2011
Sheffield consortia emerging from practice based commissioners

7-Feb-2011
Halton and St Helens developing four consortia

1-Feb-2011
Warrington consortium to take duties from April

1-Feb-2011
Milton Keynes to hand £90m to two consortia

1-Feb-2011
North Lincolnshire plans single consortium

1-Feb-2011
West Essex plans three consortia

1-Feb-2011
NHS Barking and Dagenham puts forward two pathfinders

1-Feb-2011
Leeds PCT delegates non-elective commissioning to pathfinder clusters

27-Jan-2011
Coventry PCT to form consortia sub-committees

27-Jan-2011
Hull seeking one commissioning consortium

26-Jan-2011
Peterborough PCT establishes GP Commissioning Board

25-Jan-2011
NHS Doncaster working on consortia governance

25-Jan-2011
Redundancy payouts to average £48,000

20 January 2011
Small consortia will reduce savings, warns DH

19-Jan-2011

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