Legislation to scrap primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, create commissioning consortia and give providers greater autonomy has been laid before parliament.
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Legislation to scrap primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, create commissioning consortia and give providers greater autonomy has been laid before parliament.
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The chair of a panel responsible for advising ministers on contested NHS service changes has resigned after six years in the job.
Three trusts were paid more than one million pounds for removing patients from their waiting lists through “validation” exercises last year, HSJ can reveal.
The government’s decision to give integrated care boards partial responsibility for delivering a new £1.8bn special needs programme is creating “real tension” with their plans to cut staffing and focus on commissioning, system leaders have warned.
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