Health Service Journal
PCTs
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NHS Cumbria chief executive to lead review of troubled Northern Ireland trust
16-Jan-2013
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GP retirement threatens surgery closure
28-Nov-2012
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Online alcohol test launched in West Sussex
26-Nov-2012
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North Yorkshire and York behind on neighbourhood care teams
20-Nov-2012
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NHS Haringey demands improved 'talking therapies' performance
5-Nov-2012
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C difficile rate higher than planned for NHS Bury
29-Oct-2012
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Ashton, Leigh and Wigan exceeds C difficile threshold
29-Oct-2012
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Commissioning board extends control as 'specialised' budget balloons
29-Oct-2012
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DH tracker shows cluster confidence
25-Oct-2012
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Provider giving NHS Bury daily updates on C difficile
23-Oct-2012
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Staffordshire hospitals face 'extreme pressure'
22-Oct-2012
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Surrey PCT identifies key risks during transition
8-Oct-2012
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QIPP risk grows for Surrey commissioners
8-Oct-2012
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London clusters behind on QIPP savings
4 October 2012
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Respiratory services under review in Dorset
28-Sep-2012
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Royal Cornwall above average for coding errors
28-Sep-2012
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Vascular services under review in the peninsula
28-Sep-2012
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East Sussex PCT meets mixed sex target
28-Sep-2012
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Hastings PCT meets mixed sex target
28-Sep-2012
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Medway PCT meets mixed sex target
28-Sep-2012
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Single sex breach at Eastern and Coastal Kent
28-Sep-2012
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West Kent improves on mixed sex target
28-Sep-2012
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Personal budgets pilot could be extended in Northants
27-Sep-2012
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Clunky maths and unfair fines
27 September 2012
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Brighton PCT meets mixed sex target
25-Sep-2012
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West Sussex PCT slips slightly on mixed sex breaches
25-Sep-2012
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Major improvement for Surrey on mixed sex target
24-Sep-2012
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Gloucestershire patients rate telehealth
17-Sep-2012
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AQP contract offered for Sussex hearing services
17-Sep-2012
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Transition redundancies hit women hardest
10-Sep-2012
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David Stout leaves NHS Confederation to run commissioning support organisations
3-Sep-2012
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DH tightens up rules on PCT redundancies
30-Aug-2012
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Lambeth given £1m towards 'Neighbourhood Resource Centres'
23-Aug-2012
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SHA approves £1m admissions avoidance scheme for cluster
23-Aug-2012
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Arden QIPP fails as acute contracts overheat
22-Aug-2012
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Jane Hawkard confirmed as East Riding CCG chief officer designate
22-Aug-2012
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Commissioners report Lucentis pressure from Newcastle FT
22-Aug-2012
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Phil Mettam confirmed as Bassetlaw CCG chief officer (designate)
22-Aug-2012
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GP gains role on health and wellbeing board
20-Aug-2012
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Commissioning board and Trust Development Authority directors handed responsibility for 2012-13 delivery
13-Aug-2012
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Sefton over the threshold for diagnostic waits
10-Aug-2012
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Elective activity through the roof in Birmingham cluster
10-Aug-2012
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Central and Eastern Cheshire misses diagnostics waiting target
10-Aug-2012
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Western Cheshire above national limit for long diagnostic waits
10-Aug-2012
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Ashton, Leigh and Wigan misses national target for diagnostic waits
10-Aug-2012
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Cumbria council launches £300,000 health and wellbeing fund
7-Aug-2012
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Eastern Kent PCT being kept afloat by reserves
7-Aug-2012
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PCTs begin new wave of redundancies
7-Aug-2012
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Health needs of young carers assessed
7-Aug-2012
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Current West Kent overspend is ‘not sustainable’
7-Aug-2012
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Medway FT ‘main factor’ driving commissioner overspend
7-Aug-2012
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Kent commissioners use £10m reserves to maintain surplus
6-Aug-2012
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Commissioning support service on track
6-Aug-2012
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Incomplete pathways increase at NHS Halton and St Helens
6-Aug-2012
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Breaches of cancer wait at Halton and St Helens
6-Aug-2012
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NHS Sefton misses 62-day cancer target
6-Aug-2012
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North East Hants and Farnham CCG appoints more board members
6-Aug-2012
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Wandsworth fraud investigation into 'allegations of overcharging patients'
1-Aug-2012
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Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG establishes five clinical workstreams
1-Aug-2012
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Cluster could delay GP funding redistribution to avoid 'destabilising' practices
26-Jul-2012
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Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust aiming for £14.4m savings
26-Jul-2012
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Cluster asks for £11.4m to bailout NHS Croydon
26-Jul-2012
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'Engaging CCGs' in North Yorks deficit 'essential'
24-Jul-2012
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David Stout: what did PCTs ever do for us?
19-Jul-2012
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Commissioning support market faces heavy regulation
11-Jul-2012
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Stephen Childs confirmed as North East CSS director
10-Jul-2012
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PCTs restricting access to sexual health services - report
10-Jul-2012
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HSJ Awards: entry deadline extended
29-Jun-2012
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Would-be candidates excluded from top commissioning board clinical posts
27-Jun-2012
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How CCGs can be innovative about their functions
21 June 2012
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Teversham practice gets stay of execution
20-Jun-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: CCG budgets face existential crisis
14-Jun-2012
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Wiltshire CCG appoints accountable officer
12-Jun-2012
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PCT cluster joins lung cancer campaign
10-Jun-2012
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CCG in Kent to launch patient network
6-Jun-2012
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Cumbria clinical commissioners take on £676m budget
1-Jun-2012
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Norfolk cluster faces tough QIPP challenge
1-Jun-2012
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Herts PCT to hold own contract with London provider
1-Jun-2012
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Exclusive: commissioning board offices 'to match old SHAs'
31-May-2012
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Several CCGs to be larger than outgoing PCTs
31-May-2012
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East Lancs CCG given estimated operating budget of £8.98m
25-May-2012
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Liverpool CCG given estimated operating budget of £11.4m
25-May-2012
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West Yorks PCTs QIPP plan not signed off due to cash problems
23-May-2012
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North Yorkshire and York struggling on QIPP
23-May-2012
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County Durham & Darlington overshoots 2011-12 QIPP
23-May-2012
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NHS North West London makes 82pc of QIPP target
23-May-2012
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NW London providers set to learn cluster's service change proposals
23-May-2012
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PCTs to pay GPs an extra £1.1m following system error
23-May-2012
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Gloucestershire could set up CFT
22-May-2012
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Physio phone triage rolled out in Surrey
21-May-2012
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NHS North Yorkshire & York just breaks even for 2011-12
18-May-2012
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Trusts eye capital gains from surplus NHS land sales
17-May-2012
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Heart success for Medway
13-May-2012
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PCTs failing to implement continence guidance
10-May-2012
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Local commissioning board offices will be fewer than planned
9-May-2012
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Safety fears grow as upheaval of care quality staff triples
9-May-2012
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NHS Wandsworth tenders weight management services
4-May-2012
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Commissioning Board guidance to resolve CCG boundary disputes
2-May-2012
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Surplus for Black Country PCTs
1-May-2012
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Warning of 'deep unease' about safeguarding fragmentation
1-May-2012
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Temporary staff use down as trusts cut £300m from staffing spend
30-Apr-2012
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PCTs bypassed in applications to Cancer Drugs Fund
25-Apr-2012
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Cornwall and IOS target GP performance to release savings
25-Apr-2012
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PCTs restricting availability of contraceptives
25-Apr-2012
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Commissioning board 'could control half of some trusts' income'
24-Apr-2012
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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly appoints new medical director
23-Apr-2012
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Out of hours performance data goes online
19 April 2012
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East Sussex DPH given national role
16-Apr-2012
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First public board for East CCG
4-Apr-2012
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£500k spike in Bolton Health Consortium prescribing overspend
4-Apr-2012
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PCT backtracks on GP move after lease agreement
2-Apr-2012
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GP practice closes in Surrey
2-Apr-2012
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Virgin community services deal confirmed
1-Apr-2012
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Penalise poor performers 'robustly', Flory demands
28-Mar-2012
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SHIP CSS to take more than 350 staff from PCT cluster
28-Mar-2012
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Increase in patient liberty restrictions - CQC
27-Mar-2012
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West Yorkshire cluster gets new finance director
26-Mar-2012
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Yorkshire chief executive takes over additional PCT cluster
23-Mar-2012
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CQC criticises service delays for disabled
22-Mar-2012
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Exclusive: government confirms strict new terms for FT property transfers
22-Mar-2012
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Go ahead for Middlesbrough neuro centre
16-Mar-2012
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Work begins on Morpeth health centre
16-Mar-2012
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Wide variations in children's care across England
15-Mar-2012
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Noel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
15-Mar-2012
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Voluntary redundancies dominate PCT pay-offs
15 March 2012
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PCTs must not focus on ‘fantastic’ pasts
14-Mar-2012
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Exclusive: commissioning support development falls to PCT staff
14-Mar-2012
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Exclusive: many experienced commissioners predicted to leave
14-Mar-2012
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Experienced GPs and managers can give CCGs the best start
14-Mar-2012
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National NHS surplus rises by £329m
14-Mar-2012
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PCT chair to stand down
14-Mar-2012
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Branch surgery at risk in Norfolk
13-Mar-2012
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COPD community clinics launched in Beds
13-Mar-2012
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£4m for integrated care in Leicestershire County
13-Mar-2012
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Unexpected benefit from summary care record in Kent
12-Mar-2012
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Extra million boosts NHS dentistry in Surrey
12-Mar-2012
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East Sussex PCTs ties charity grants to outcomes
12-Mar-2012
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'High volume surgery outcomes suggest there is safety in numbers'
8-Mar-2012
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Care homes struggling for access to health services
7-Mar-2012
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North of Tyne CCGs sharing chief officers
2-Mar-2012
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North East appoints interim commissioning support lead
2-Mar-2012
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Commissioning board could take ownership of LIFT assets
1-Mar-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: peculiar commissioning spend estimates could threaten surpluses
23-Feb-2012
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Commuter influx sees NHS Westminster selected to pilot GP choice scheme
17-Feb-2012
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Rotherham chair takes over at all South Yorks and Bassetlaw cluster PCTs
17-Feb-2012
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Three commissioning support services under development in South West
17-Feb-2012
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NHS Bristol gets keys to new hospital
17-Feb-2012
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Almost no staff plan to leave Derbyshire cluster before PCTs disbanded
17-Feb-2012
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CCGs must pay for NHS office space from running cost allowance
17-Feb-2012
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Three north Tees emerging CCGs merge into one
16-Feb-2012
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Litigation authority reform could lower trust costs
16 February 2012
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Commissioning support services to get private sector guidance
15-Feb-2012
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Rise in 'digestive procedures' prompts overspend on private contract
13-Feb-2012
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West Cheshire clinical commissioners set out clinical priorites
8-Feb-2012
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North Somerset failing on C difficile
8-Feb-2012
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Commissioners overspending at Newcastle FT by £10.5m
8-Feb-2012
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SHIP cluster struggles on prescribing savings
8-Feb-2012
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Stockton-On-Tees health centre moving
8-Feb-2012
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Exclusive: community trusts dispute asset transfers with PCTs and DH
8-Feb-2012
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South Essex PCT cluster tenders for NHS 111
6-Feb-2012
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North Tyneside GP practice hails flu vaccine uptake
3-Feb-2012
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SHIP cluster courts KPMG for commissioning support development
3-Feb-2012
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LIFT companies seek NHS Property Services links
1-Feb-2012
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Worcestershire launches service review
31-Jan-2012
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New Assura Medical practice in Calderdale
31-Jan-2012
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South of England PCTs set to beat surplus target
31-Jan-2012
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Letters on PCT and SHA staff transfers sent today
31-Jan-2012
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NHS Oldham falls behind on ‘stretch’ savings target
30-Jan-2012
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Farrar: Commissioning board manager cuts 'pose a danger to patient care'
27-Jan-2012
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PCT staff letters to omit passage on clarity
27-Jan-2012
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Greater Manchester reduces underuse of private sector contracts
26-Jan-2012
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Risks facing the commissioning board: in its own words
26 January 2012
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Sharp rise in NHS Bolton overspend on hospital services
24-Jan-2012
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NHS Cornwall suffers 'teething problems'
24-Jan-2012
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GPs approach hospital consultants directly because of 'lack of trust'
24-Jan-2012
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North Yorkshire and York telehealth units underused
24-Jan-2012
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NQB asks NHS North West London for 'evidence of good practice'
24-Jan-2012
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Nottinghamshire starts first phase of out of hours procurement
24-Jan-2012
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Non-execs appointed to single BNSSG cluster board
24-Jan-2012
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London clusters may have to cover Olympic programme shorfall
24-Jan-2012
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NHS Hounslow deficit 'creating uncertainty'
24-Jan-2012
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Doubts cast over size of topline public health budgets
24-Jan-2012
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How CCGs can make savings in their prescription budget
23-Jan-2012
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East Lancs PCT banks an extra £10m with SHA
20-Jan-2012
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Software saves on NHS Wiltshire prescribing costs
20-Jan-2012
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Exclusive: DH letters to staff admit 'no clarity' on jobs
20-Jan-2012
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Forty-one commissioning support services are proposed
19-Jan-2012
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Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
17-Jan-2012
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Exclusive: national company to take over PCT estate
17-Jan-2012
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Patients needing home oxygen services may have to take deliveries at night during Olympics
16-Jan-2012
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NHS Wandsworth's surplus at risk from acute overspend
16-Jan-2012
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Report finds too few health visitors in Croydon
16-Jan-2012
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Kent PCTs launch phone app in bid to cut teenage pregnancies
16-Jan-2012
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Ministers must slow down to avoid another Mid Staffs
12-Jan-2012
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Noel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
12-Jan-2012
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Stroke concern at Cambs PCT cluster
11-Jan-2012
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Legal lessons: securing judicial review of service reconfiguration
6-Jan-2012
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Exclusive: DH leak reveals uncertainty over 11,000 PCT jobs
5-Jan-2012
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PCT and SHA staff set to learn job decisions
5-Jan-2012
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Clinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'
5-Jan-2012
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Your Humble Servant: the rallying cry for 2012
5 January 2012
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Maternity consultation nears end in east Kent
4-Jan-2012
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Royal Bournemouth over performance 'biggest single risk' to PCT finances
4-Jan-2012
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Former Kingston chair gets CBE
3-Jan-2012
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Liverpool PCT chair gets OBE
3-Jan-2012
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NHS Bury forecasts breakeven after £3m additional allocation
3-Jan-2012
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Southampton overperforms on all referral targets
3-Jan-2012
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Surrey has 10 emerging CCGs
22-Dec-2011
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Birmingham and Solihull decide on five CCGs but not exact membership
21-Dec-2011
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'Race split' Milton Keynes CCGs agree to merge
21-Dec-2011
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PCT and SHA staff to be told their 'expected destination' on 31 January
21-Dec-2011
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Public health needs new 'business model'
20-Dec-2011
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Arden cluster considers provider bailouts as surplus grows
19-Dec-2011
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NHS managers asked to resign - Labour
19-Dec-2011
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Wiltshire PCT downgrades surplus forecast
15-Dec-2011
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Swindon PCT looking for extra savings
15-Dec-2011
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Gloucestershire cluster sets out AQP choices
15-Dec-2011
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NHS Cornwall slipping on QIPP
15-Dec-2011
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Acute activity sparks overspend forecast at Bath and NE Somerset
15-Dec-2011
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Waiting times a concern in Norfolk
15-Dec-2011
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C diff concerns for Norfolk
15-Dec-2011
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Surplus forecast for Great Yarmouth despite pressures
15-Dec-2011
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Herts CCGs overspend affecting PCT
14-Dec-2011
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NHS Cambs needs £22m savings
14-Dec-2011
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Chlamydia cases falling in Cambridgeshire
14-Dec-2011
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Delayed transfers of care major issue in Cambs
14-Dec-2011
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NHS Cambs breaches diagnostics waiting target
14-Dec-2011
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Cambs struggling on Choose and Book
14-Dec-2011
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Board report confirms preference for single Cambs and Peterborough CCG
14-Dec-2011
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PCTs to receive flat 2.8pc increase next year
14-Dec-2011
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'Untested' IT procurement agreed in Derbyshire
13-Dec-2011
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PCT managers at Derbyshire learn of fate
13-Dec-2011
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Derbyshire cluster to procure outsourced HR support
13-Dec-2011
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Lincolnshire, Humber and North Yorkshire to form single CSO
13-Dec-2011
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Sheffield CCG delegated £709m and asked for £5m 'recovery plan'
13-Dec-2011
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Enuresis award for Surrey social enterprise
12-Dec-2011
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Halton and St Helens ahead on savings but with 'gap' in full-year plans
9-Dec-2011
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Emergency readmissions above plan in Knowsley
9-Dec-2011
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‘Probable’ £3m deficit for NHS Warrington
9-Dec-2011
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Winter could place pressure on Gateshead finance
9-Dec-2011
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'Specialised commissioning gives the NHS Commissioning Board a chance to deliver'
8 December 2011
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North of Tyne PCTs provide information dashboard to GPs and CCGs
7-Dec-2011
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Podiatry and adult hearing services to be opened to competition in Merseyside
7-Dec-2011
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Flory plans CCG finance chief 'accreditation' process
7-Dec-2011
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Flory: commissioners' savings plans on course
1-Dec-2011
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Learning legal lessons from the transforming community services scheme
1 December 2011
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GPs claim CCGs are being 'bullied and coerced' by PCTs
30-Nov-2011
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East Suffolk and Ipswich CCG merge to become single body
29-Nov-2011
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Outer NE london cluster gets new chief executive
28-Nov-2011
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BMA: GPs want CCGs big enough to avoid outsourcing of commissioning
28-Nov-2011
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PCTs to be monitored to protect against public health cuts
24-Nov-2011
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CCG management allowance set at £25 per head
24-Nov-2011
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Dozens of CCGs not meeting rules must find 'alternatives'
24-Nov-2011
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Trust spending on carers to be scrutinised
24-Nov-2011
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CCG staff assignment to accelerate despite redundancy fears
23-Nov-2011
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PCT public health spending revealed
23-Nov-2011
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CCG to fund diabetes diet service in East Sussex
22-Nov-2011
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Contraception clinics expanded in Medway
22-Nov-2011
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Concern over HPV vaccine uptake in Eastern and Coastal Kent
22-Nov-2011
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First summary care record goes live in Surrey
22-Nov-2011
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Worcestershire negotiating increase to agreed £3m surplus
22-Nov-2011
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Telford and Wrekin could be heading for deficit
22-Nov-2011
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Emergency waits regularly exceed target at Telford and Wrekin
22-Nov-2011
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Consultants working on 'clear and credible plans' with North Tyne CCGs
22-Nov-2011
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Competition panel takes York FT complaint to next stage
22-Nov-2011
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Rise in PCTs reporting above-average costs
22-Nov-2011
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Notts County unveils chosen AQP services
21-Nov-2011
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Birmingham's only remaining red-rated CCG disbands
21-Nov-2011
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Outer NE London cluster takes BHRUT to arbitration
18-Nov-2011
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East London PCTs still have to find £5.6m unidentified savings
18-Nov-2011
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Leicestershire PCTs choose final three AQP priority services
18-Nov-2011
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Fertility treatment bans reversed by PCTs
17 November 2011
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Exclusive: 'Significant majority' of CCG population will live in its area - minister
16-Nov-2011
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NHS Surrey reverses IVF funding ban
15-Nov-2011
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Midlands announces cluster chairs
14-Nov-2011
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Derbyshire identifies AQP priorities
14-Nov-2011
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Lansley to announce 'ban' on minimum waiting times
14-Nov-2011
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Clusters ordered to begin stocktake of 75,000 service contracts
11-Nov-2011
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Exclusive: prominent CCG chair fears DH will impose 200,000 population minimum
11-Nov-2011
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GP commissioning leaders: CCGs should not set referral limits
8-Nov-2011
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Serco wins £32m Cornwall OOH contract
4-Nov-2011
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National framework launched for clinical commissioning leadership development
3-Nov-2011
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Moving to fairer funding and standardised services for GP practices
2-Nov-2011
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Nottingham cluster appoints chief exec
1-Nov-2011
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Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale behind on savings at end of August
1-Nov-2011
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Exclusive: inquiry launched as £25m black hole opens up in PCT accounts
1-Nov-2011
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Birmingham CCGs present 'significant challenge' on size and geography
31-Oct-2011
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Leading the charge for change? An HSJ Summit review
28-Oct-2011
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Three quarters of Birmingham CCGs rated 'red' in pre-authorisation test
27-Oct-2011
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North East PCTs mull region-wide commissioning support
27 October 2011
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Dilnot social care proposals would cost Surrey £100m a year
26-Oct-2011
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NHS Worcestershire overspends on Continuing Care
25-Oct-2011
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No agreement reached on Barnsley CCG arrangements
25-Oct-2011
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Cluster chairs named in East of England
24-Oct-2011
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NHS Peterborough chair fires parting shot over 'rapid' clustering
24-Oct-2011
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Kingston health providers to run primary school
24-Oct-2011
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Barnsley chief exec seconded to DH
24-Oct-2011
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Guidance 'misconstrued' as commissioners restrict drugs
24-Oct-2011
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GP commissioners extending new ENT service in Sheffield
21-Oct-2011
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East Sussex Downs and Weald at risk of £11m deficit
21-Oct-2011
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Hastings and Rother on course for £3.5m surplus
21-Oct-2011
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Brighton and Hove revises surplus forecast upwards by £2m
21-Oct-2011
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NHS West Sussex at risk of £14m deficit
21-Oct-2011
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Leicester children suffer poor access to dentistry
20-Oct-2011
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Leicestershire cluster shortlists four services for AQP
20-Oct-2011
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'An important moment in public health history'
20-Oct-2011
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NHS 111 could struggle to meet demand
20-Oct-2011
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Primary care spend fell fastest last year - Information Centre
20-Oct-2011
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Finance directors 'optimistic' on savings plans but local fears persist
20 October 2011
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The benefits of PbR in commissioning smoking cessation services
20 October 2011
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Finance 'capacity gap' at Leicester City worsens as resources are shared with CCGs
19-Oct-2011
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Rising referrals cause concern in Buckinghamshire
19-Oct-2011
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CCG support vision will calm anger but spark controversy
19-Oct-2011
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DH commissioning support vision revealed
19-Oct-2011
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Contract query raised over Doncaster and Bassetlaw's stroke performance
18-Oct-2011
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How a weather forecasting service can reduce COPD hospital admissions
17-Oct-2011
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Exclusive: DH publishes detailed plans for commissioning support
17-Oct-2011
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SHA identifies concerns over finance and performance in Oxfordshire and Bucks
14-Oct-2011
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NHS Wandsworth given permission to sell Putney Hospital to Wandsworth council
14-Oct-2011
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North Essex PCT set £6m running cost reduction target
14-Oct-2011
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Mid Essex PCT set to use all contingency
14-Oct-2011
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Peterborough in preventative strategy talks
14-Oct-2011
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Waiting targets being missed by one in three PCTs
14-Oct-2011
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NHS 'holding up well' but pressures growing, report warns
14-Oct-2011
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PCTs ordered to adopt single cluster board model
13-Oct-2011
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Noel Plumridge: savings are not surpluses
13 October 2011
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GP surgery move in NE Essex
12-Oct-2011
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DH to 'bring in line' commissioners who ration treatments
12-Oct-2011
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Health inequalities scheme flagging as GPs shun 'charity work'
12-Oct-2011
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NHS Gloucestershire invests in telehealth
11-Oct-2011
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Sheffield PCT notes revalidation assessment risk
11-Oct-2011
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Kent launches new mental health website
10-Oct-2011
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Bexley allowed to use SHA top-slice to pay off trust after losing arbitration
10-Oct-2011
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London cluster identifies 'almost certain' risk to high quality primary care
10-Oct-2011
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Exclusive: Keogh warns NHS against 'blanket' treatment bans
10-Oct-2011
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NHS Greenwich says it will probably need to dip into its top-slice
7-Oct-2011
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BMA 'alarmed' about CCGs excluding some GPs and LMCs
7-Oct-2011
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Patients facing 27-week waits for physiotherapy services
7-Oct-2011
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NHS Coventry prepares for summary care record upload
6-Oct-2011
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North Bristol exceeds C difficile and MSSA targets
6-Oct-2011
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CCGs call for more choice over commissioning support
6-Oct-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: in theory, the reality could be even worse
6 October 2011
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'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
6-Oct-2011
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Two social enterprises up and running in the south west
5-Oct-2011
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Yorkshire PCT has 'significant concerns' about GP minor surgery letter
4-Oct-2011
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Social enterprise takes over community services in Great Yarmouth
30-Sep-2011
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'Complexities' hold up Warwickshire QIPP plan
30-Sep-2011
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Warwickshire PCT overspends on acute contracts
30-Sep-2011
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Tees PCTs eye regional commissioning support collaboration
30-Sep-2011
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NHS Plymouth forced to increase savings targets
29-Sep-2011
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NHS Cumbria £1.6m behind on savings plan at end of August
29-Sep-2011
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Central Lancashire CCGs ask to work as separate committees
28-Sep-2011
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Low access to flagship mental health scheme revealed
28-Sep-2011
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Commissioning cluster identifies services to be considered for AQP
27-Sep-2011
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GPs tell deaf patients to pay for own sign language interpreters
27-Sep-2011
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Heart of Birmingham transfers £15m to help cluster
27-Sep-2011
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NHS Salford aims high for flu vaccine uptake
27-Sep-2011
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Community social enterprise due to go live in Plymouth
26-Sep-2011
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What the realities of competition mean for organisations' sustainability
26-Sep-2011
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John Lawlor confirmed as Airedale, Bradford and Leeds PCT cluster chief
23-Sep-2011
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Poor prescribing at root of C difficile problems in Tameside and Glossop
22-Sep-2011
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Leicester GPs refuse to carry out health checks
22-Sep-2011
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Transfer of public health services to councils in doubt
22 September 2011
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CCGs will be liable for PCT redundancy costs
21-Sep-2011
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Exclusive: GP contract changes could standardise services and pay
21-Sep-2011
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Depression recovery varying wildly across the country
21-Sep-2011
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Kent PCT sends patient data CD to the tip
19-Sep-2011
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Assura wins Surrey community services contract
16-Sep-2011
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CCGs setting spending priorities urged to 'be brave'
15-Sep-2011
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Assura health centre completed in Surrey
13-Sep-2011
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NHS North East Essex invites bids for charity grants
13-Sep-2011
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NW London commissioners to review trust's higher than expected acuity
13-Sep-2011
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Coventry PCT reveals GP complaints data
13-Sep-2011
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NHS Norfolk set to launch tender for OOH service
13-Sep-2011
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Reablement service launched in Cumbria
12-Sep-2011
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'We need to build the proper foundations for clinically led commissioning'
12-Sep-2011
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Leicester PCT cluster appoints NEDs
9-Sep-2011
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Debate: is general practice pulling its weight in the efficiency challenge?
9-Sep-2011
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NHS Warrington facing 'probable' £4.5m deficit for 2011-12
8-Sep-2011
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Why it is crucial for commissioning support to be established successfully
8 September 2011
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South Essex Partnership completes takeover of Beds community services
6-Sep-2011
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Yorkshire substance misuse service tender
6-Sep-2011
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Somerset nurse makes mark with infection control work
5-Sep-2011
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Cumbria PCT agrees £164.6m contract with NCUHT
2-Sep-2011
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Emerging Medway CCG sets out draft comms plans
2-Sep-2011
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Staffordshire community providers form partnership trust
2-Sep-2011
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'It's time for managers to stand up and be counted'
2-Sep-2011
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NHS 111 pilot coming to inner north west London
1-Sep-2011
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Dates set for Hillingdon 111 pilot
1-Sep-2011
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Proposals to change mental health services across North Staffs
1-Sep-2011
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Why the National Audit Office is wrong about the future for social enterprises
1 September 2011
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New medical director for West Mercia Cluster
31-Aug-2011
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New managing director for Wolverhampton
31-Aug-2011
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Kent named as a ‘Healthy Living Pharmacy’ pathfinder
31-Aug-2011
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How a broader view of emergency readmissions could reduce overall activity levels
31-Aug-2011
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PCTs urged to fill alcohol treatment gap in prisons
30-Aug-2011
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Sheffield challenges Leeds’ claim to be first breastfeeding friendly city
26-Aug-2011
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First dental practice to start up in Doncaster for a decade
26-Aug-2011
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Calderdale PCT tenders for a new diabetes screening service
26-Aug-2011
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PCTs told to provide accounts for cash transferred to councils
26-Aug-2011
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New chair for Yorkshire NHS cluster
26-Aug-2011
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NHS Wakefield tenders for a breastfeeding support service
26-Aug-2011
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West Kent practice closes after GP removed from performers list
25-Aug-2011
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Surrey community hospitals praised for ‘five star kitchens’
24-Aug-2011
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Bolton GP commissioners forecast to overspend delegated budgets by £1.4m
24-Aug-2011
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PCT cluster sets out priorities for Bristol area
23-Aug-2011
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PCT cluster under pressure over new community hospital pledge
23-Aug-2011
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Kent PCT to end treatment centre deal with Care UK
23-Aug-2011
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North Essex cluster yet to find £13m of savings plans
23-Aug-2011
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Continuing care demand leads to overspend in Norfolk
23-Aug-2011
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Early acute overspend leads to £10m 'pressures' forecast in Norfolk
23-Aug-2011
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A hire price to pay: how leasing equipment saves money and improves service quality
23-Aug-2011
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Primary care organisations across NE launch equality consultation
22-Aug-2011
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New public health director at North Tyneside
22-Aug-2011
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More long wait patients receive NHS treatment
19-Aug-2011
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Lincolnshire is worst area for stroke care
18-Aug-2011
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One in seven CCG populations too small for authorisation
18 August 2011
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NHS Knowsley had best smoking quit rate in NW in 2010-11
17-Aug-2011
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DH reveals authorisation 'journey' for CCGs
17-Aug-2011
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Social enterprises condemn 'slap in the face' over PCT properties
17-Aug-2011
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Out of the darkness: how quality assessment can improve out of hours care
17-Aug-2011
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Outer north east London cluster on plan for £4.2m underspend
16-Aug-2011
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West Sussex reports success in smoking cessation
16-Aug-2011
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West Kent at ‘extremely high risk’ from QIPP
15-Aug-2011
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Kent cluster still lacking director of finance
15-Aug-2011
-
East and Coastal Kent records year to date surplus
15-Aug-2011
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NHS Medway records small in-year surplus
15-Aug-2011
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NHS Bury deficit rose to £1.7m by end of June
15-Aug-2011
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Lambeth moves to single emerging CCG
12-Aug-2011
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NHS Wiltshire struggles to reach contract agreement with acutes
12-Aug-2011
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Berkshire East falls short on QIPP savings
12-Aug-2011
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Berkshire West QIPP slips
11-Aug-2011
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Exclusive: draft authorisation document reveals key tests for new commissioning groups
11-Aug-2011
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DH report finds medicines waste 'not a systemic problem'
10-Aug-2011
-
East Sussex Downs and Weald rates its financial position ‘amber’
9-Aug-2011
-
Brighton and Hove remains on course for £4.6m surplus
9-Aug-2011
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Sussex PCTs predict £77m provider overspend
9-Aug-2011
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GPs could be influenced by pharma, King's Fund warns
9-Aug-2011
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NHS West Sussex needs to identify extra £20m in savings
8-Aug-2011
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NHS organisations treat equality duty as 'tick box' exercise
4-Aug-2011
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The financial challenges GPs face in developing surgery estate
4 August 2011
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Poor areas won't suffer under reforms, insists Lansley
1-Aug-2011
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DH announces commissioning reform milestones and single comms service
29-Jul-2011
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Patient operations deliberately delayed, CCP claims
29-Jul-2011
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Commissioners 'excessively constraining' patient choice
28-Jul-2011
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Foundations reap income from transferred services
28-Jul-2011
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Leeds and Bradford and Airedale form late PCT cluster
26-Jul-2011
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Private hospital spend varies widely, study shows
26-Jul-2011
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How to get best value from pathology providers
25-Jul-2011
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New NED joins NHS Surrey
22-Jul-2011
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Kent aims to recruit 218 more health visitors over next five years
22-Jul-2011
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Commissioning reform costs already near quarter of a billion
21-Jul-2011
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The NHS Commissioning Board must support CCGs, not overshadow them
21-Jul-2011
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Emergency readmissions payment ban being ignored
21-Jul-2011
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Private providers demand end to DH 'bureaucracy'
21 July 2011
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Board meetings take few decisions, report finds
20-Jul-2011
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Safeguarding: protecting the almost adult
20-Jul-2011
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NHS management is misleading GPs about commissioning, DH adviser says
19-Jul-2011
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Ashton, Wigan and Leigh £116,000 behind plan by the end of May
14-Jul-2011
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Oldham £335,000 behind plan by the end of May
14-Jul-2011
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Trafford £165,0000 behind plan by the end of May
14-Jul-2011
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Sir David sets out single commissioning vision
13-Jul-2011
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More than 800 NHS Greater Manchester patients in Southern Cross homes
12-Jul-2011
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Greater Manchester cluster considers plan to halve number of local boards
12-Jul-2011
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Progress in the community: how TCS has helped community providers
11-Jul-2011
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Exclusive: speech and language therapy suffers drop in scope and quality of services
7-Jul-2011
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PCT legacy shows 'significant improvement' despite challenges
7 July 2011
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Leicestershire PCT cluster appoints chair
6-Jul-2011
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Yorkshire & Humber PCTs struggle to meet financial plans for 2010-11
5-Jul-2011
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Noel Plumridge: time for primary care to shoulder its share of the savings burden
30 June 2011
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Review children's heart unit closures, MPs told
24-Jun-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: sitting duck surpluses
23 June 2011
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Exclusive: NHS faces 'big problem' if reform timetable slips - Nicholson
22-Jun-2011
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NHS Medway reports £4.2m surplus for 2010-11
21-Jun-2011
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Nicholson: PCT clusters to survive as arms of Commissioning Board
21-Jun-2011
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Spending on private providers blows NHS Oldham’s acute budget by £5m
17-Jun-2011
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On dodgy ground: much needed NHS estate works are being held up by the Health Bill's progress
16 June 2011
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Ealing is second biggest overperformer in NW London
15-Jun-2011
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New community hospital to open its doors in North Yorkshire
15-Jun-2011
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Chair appointed for Sussex PCT cluster
14-Jun-2011
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Consortium lead elected for Brighton and Hove
14-Jun-2011
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Chair appointed for Kent and Medway cluster
13-Jun-2011
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Reform responsibilities pose 'major' risk to NHS Sefton
13-Jun-2011
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Bradford and Airedale moves towards two consortia
10-Jun-2011
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North West London cluster allocates £12.5m in PCT bail-outs
10-Jun-2011
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BMA GP chief: Prime minister NHS changes 'welcome'
9-Jun-2011
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Royal College commissioning school receiving nearly £2m for GPs' training
8-Jun-2011
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North Lincs health and social care centre set for October opening
3-Jun-2011
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PCT rejects Sainsbury's GP surgery bid because of privacy and hygiene concerns
3-Jun-2011
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Independent sector GP provider developing consortium in North East
3-Jun-2011
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Organisational reform poses 'catastrophic' information risk
2-Jun-2011
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Health and wellbeing boards 'lack real influence'
2 June 2011
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New guidance warns of higher bar for JSNAs
2 June 2011
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North Lincs PCT eyes hospital mortality figures
1-Jun-2011
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Clusters to be given single operating model under DH plans
1-Jun-2011
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Western Cheshire sets aside £8m against risk of ‘reinstating’ mental health funds
31-May-2011
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Clegg: 'NHS managers will continue where GPs are not ready'
26-May-2011
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Cash-strapped PCT escapes budget topslice
26 May 2011
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PCTs step up transfer of responsibility to consortia
26 May 2011
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The benefits better communication and negotiation skills could bring to the NHS
26 May 2011
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Nottingham consortium elects chair
25-May-2011
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Former West Kent chief exec leaves SHA role for Qatar
24-May-2011
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Darlington PCT overspent on non-NHS provider
24-May-2011
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Private provider opens specialist rehab hospital in Southwark
23-May-2011
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Newcastle Hospitals creates community services division
23-May-2011
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Kirklees PCT developing community services social enterprise 'at pace'
20-May-2011
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NHS waste costing millions of pounds annually
20-May-2011
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BMA: commissioning consortia are excluding salaried GPs
20-May-2011
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SE London cluster has 22 red-rated 'issues of concern' with independent contractors
19-May-2011
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Wolverhampton practice-based commissioners run up £7.84m overspend
19-May-2011
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Three Sunderland PBC groups merge into one consortium
19-May-2011
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Two South Tyneside consortia become one
19-May-2011
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Providers warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’
19-May-2011
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Fast-tracked treatment for armed forces to be law
19 May 2011
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North Tyneside PCT passes £298m to consortia
18-May-2011
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Newcastle PCT delegates £344m to shadow consortia
18-May-2011
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NHS Surrey halted referrals to private providers over indemnity risk
18-May-2011
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Healthy financial position for Surrey Community Health
18-May-2011
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Portsmouth stroke care below target despite improvements
17-May-2011
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NHS Blackpool to consult on possible closure of four hospitals
17-May-2011
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North Central London cluster calls in consultants to risk assure QIPP plan
17-May-2011
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NHS Waltham Forest supported by London's Challenged Trust Board
17-May-2011
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Shadow social enterprise now operating in east Surrey
16-May-2011
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NHS South Gloucestershire sets ambitious QIPP plan
16-May-2011
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Lincolnshire PCT 'pauses' its board
13-May-2011
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NHS North Yorkshire and York celebrates refurbishment of historic hospital
13-May-2011
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Northamptonshire PCT underspends by £10.5m
13-May-2011
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Derby City 'sharing' QIPP savings with consortia
12-May-2011
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Sheffield's four consortia seek joint accountable officer
12-May-2011
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Barking and Dagenham's individual funding request policy adopted by cluster
12-May-2011
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PCTs withholding consortia funding, claims NAPC
12-May-2011
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Hartlepool and Stockton PCTs expect surplus despite acute overspend
11-May-2011
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NHS West Kent reports bowel cancer screening success
10-May-2011
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NHS West Sussex sets out home oxygen tender plan
10-May-2011
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NHS Medway announces latest results for bowel screening uptake
10-May-2011
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Young patients oppose child cardiac changes
9-May-2011
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GPs in Derbyshire County to pilot CQC registration
5-May-2011
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NHS Bristol chief exec takes on North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
4-May-2011
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NHS Dorset chief executive to lead cluster
4-May-2011
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NHS Gloucestershire chief executive to lead cluster
4-May-2011
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NHS Wiltshire chief executive to lead PCT cluster
4-May-2011
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North of Tyne PCTs expects break even despite acute overspend
3-May-2011
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Kirklees PCT chief to lead cluster
28-Apr-2011
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Kirklees PCT agrees to take £1.8m off end of year surplus
28-Apr-2011
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West Sussex consortium runs into trouble with charity over nursing posts
27-Apr-2011
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NHS Leeds chief executive takes on additional regional role
27-Apr-2011
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PCT clusters and chief executives list
27-Apr-2011
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Cluster landscape shows 52 commissioners
27-Apr-2011
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How Liverpool PCT is using data presentation to improve access to its joint strategic needs assessment
26-Apr-2011
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Rotherham FT to lose fifth of CQUIN cash
26-Apr-2011
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Reform review may demand 'no more reorganisations'
26-Apr-2011
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Name chosen for community hospital in Selby
21-Apr-2011
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NHS North Yorkshire scopes telehealth success
21-Apr-2011
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Isle of Wight provider arm currently unsustainable
21-Apr-2011
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New patient record system will join up services on the Isle of Wight
21-Apr-2011
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Fears over offender services as duties transfer to PCTs
21-Apr-2011
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Is the NHS constitution still relevant in the new NHS landscape?
21 April 2011
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NHS Buckinghamshire awards contract for £3.9m medical centre
20-Apr-2011
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NHS Nottingham City calls on patients to join ‘citizen’s panel’
20-Apr-2011
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Birmingham East and North rapped over lax data security
20-Apr-2011
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Derbyshire PCTs to pilot productivity scheme for general practice
20-Apr-2011
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NHS outsourcing shows significant savings, lobby group claims
20-Apr-2011
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GPs unclear on forming non-neighbouring consortia
20-Apr-2011
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Stepping up: the collaborative approach to becoming a model of innovation
20-Apr-2011
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NHS West Sussex holds extra board meeting to discuss ‘clustering’
19-Apr-2011
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North Tyneside consortium picks chair and chief exec
19-Apr-2011
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How a leaner integrated approach improved older person services at a reduced cost
19-Apr-2011
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NHS Bury still £1.7m overspent one month before financial year end
18-Apr-2011
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust forecast 2010-11 breakeven
18-Apr-2011
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Hull PCT chief to sit on government 'listening exercise'
18-Apr-2011
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NHS denying patients care, claims surgeon group
18-Apr-2011
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Salford boss to take top job at greater Manchester cluster
14-Apr-2011
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Doncaster establishes PCT-wide consortium as board committee
14-Apr-2011
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NHS Bassetlaw identifies £5.7m of disinvestments
14-Apr-2011
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Performance surplus hides the fact many trusts are facing critical finance problems
14 April 2011
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Sitting comfortably? A chair’s thoughts on the reforms
14 April 2011
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NHS Worcestershire finance director joins West Mercia cluster
13-Apr-2011
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NHS outer north east London ‘cluster’ gets underway
13-Apr-2011
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NHS Oxfordshire takes step towards new community hospital
13-Apr-2011
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NHS Oxfordshire announces contract for counselling services
13-Apr-2011
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North of Tyne PCTs begin summary care record rollout
13-Apr-2011
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NHS Derbyshire County chief exec to lead PCT cluster
13-Apr-2011
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Great Yarmouth and Waveney launches palliative care advice service
12-Apr-2011
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Sutton and Merton has largest QIPP saving plan in the SW London cluster
12-Apr-2011
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'Putting PCT staff into commissioning organisations could prove to be insanity'
12-Apr-2011
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HSJ consortia development map
11-Apr-2011
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Wolverhampton City PCT chief exec stands down as reforms kick in
7-Apr-2011
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Barnsley commissioning plans 'stall' as consortium declines to merge
7-Apr-2011
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Assigning PCT staff to commissioning consortia will be phased
7 April 2011
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Consortia to handle PCTs' savings burden
7 April 2011
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Is there really room for localism in the Big Healthy Society?
7 April 2011
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Pathfinder consortia focusing on integration, analysis shows
7 April 2011
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'Public health cannot survive on £4bn'
7 April 2011
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NHS North Staffordshire on track for £1m surplus
5-Apr-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire to shut mental health centres
5-Apr-2011
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TCS deadline hit and miss for NHS Peterborough
4-Apr-2011
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Can consortia bear the burden?
3-Apr-2011
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South Tyne PCTs work to address over-performance
1-Apr-2011
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Early consortium transfers expected by commissioners
31 March 2011
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'Firm action' needed on access targets, DH warns
31 March 2011
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Hakin rejects 'disappointing' reform criticisms
31 March 2011
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Hakin rules out consortia patient charges
31 March 2011
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Leading GP groups risk creation of 'sink estate' consortia
31 March 2011
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NHS Camden staff question "top-heavy" PCT cluster
31 March 2011
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PCT Network responds to choice complaints
31 March 2011
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Great Yarmouth consortium plans future with local clinicians
30-Mar-2011
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NHS Enfield predicts deficit next year
30-Mar-2011
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Hampshire chief exec to head up 'SHIP cluster'
29-Mar-2011
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East Kent PCT commissions practice to run nurse walk-in service
29-Mar-2011
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NHS West Sussex surplus hopes pinned on settling provider contract disputes
29-Mar-2011
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NHS West Sussex to joint commission with council next year
29-Mar-2011
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West Sussex chief exec joins DH to oversee reforms
29-Mar-2011
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Tough at the top: the challenges facing management teams in the new NHS
29-Mar-2011
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Chief operating officer takes on information role at east Kent PCT
28-Mar-2011
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NHS Medway set to launch carbon reduction plan
28-Mar-2011
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Hastings and Rother PCT on course to beat planned surplus
28-Mar-2011
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NHS East Sussex Downs £2m behind on surplus plan
28-Mar-2011
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Sussex Partnership gains council approval for service change
28-Mar-2011
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NHS Richmond agrees year-end settlements with two key providers
28-Mar-2011
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Practice nurse and sessional GP proposed for NHS Islington shadow consortia board
28-Mar-2011
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NHS West Kent handed £1bn budget for next year
25-Mar-2011
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Shropshire County sets date for community trust FT bid
24-Mar-2011
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NHS Surrey still facing £20m year-end shortfall
24-Mar-2011
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Medway announces it will have single GP consortium
24-Mar-2011
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Confess 'longstanding problems' in consortia handovers, PCTs told
24 March 2011
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Howe promises to 'expose' underperforming GPs
24 March 2011
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Monitor capacity holds up community service transfers
24 March 2011
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One more sign that we may miss the expertise of PCTs
24 March 2011
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Two regions' PCT groups and chief executives confirmed
24 March 2011
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Hove GPs plan move into church
23-Mar-2011
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West Essex PCT struggling to break even
22-Mar-2011
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East London cluster plans set out
22-Mar-2011
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NW commissioners to pool buying power for continuing care
22-Mar-2011
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New Worcestershire provider hires chief executive
21-Mar-2011
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Public health transition 'road map' underway
21-Mar-2011
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The implications of getting new complaints processes right - and wrong
17-Mar-2011
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Dozens of consortia match PCT area
17 March 2011
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Health Bill dissent 'destabilising' for NHS - Alliance chief
17 March 2011
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Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
17 March 2011
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Final proposals for NHS Bassetlaw's provider services set out
16-Mar-2011
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Bradford, Leeds and North Yorkshire PCTs remain unclustered
16-Mar-2011
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NHS Surrey will not fully divest its community services by April
16-Mar-2011
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Rotherham chief exec to lead five PCTs cluster
16-Mar-2011
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NHS staff feel excluded amid growing job security fears
16-Mar-2011
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DH 'reneging' on cancer drugs fund pledge
14-Mar-2011
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NHS Knowsley on track for £1.6m surplus in 2010-11
11-Mar-2011
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NHS Cumbria still £7.1m in the red at the end of January
11-Mar-2011
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Commissioning Support for London to be closed
11-Mar-2011
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Leicester's two PCTs a 'viable size' for clustering
10-Mar-2011
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Fire at Stoke community hospital
10-Mar-2011
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Brighton GPs plan to cut commissioning teeth on mental health
10 March 2011
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Drawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing
10 March 2011
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'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
10 March 2011
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Preventative care savings questioned by study
10 March 2011
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Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT showing £1.25m surplus
9-Mar-2011
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NHS Bury predicts year-end surplus, despite January deficit
9-Mar-2011
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PCT clusters should have guarantee of existence beyond 2013, says Nuffield Trust
9-Mar-2011
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Sickness absence rises at Derby City amid reforms
8-Mar-2011
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Book balancing managers' 'biggest challenge'
7-Mar-2011
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MP warns of 'huge gap' in heart care provision
4-Mar-2011
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Cally Bann
3-Mar-2011
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Commissioning funds used to pay for GP basics
3 March 2011
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Half of PCTs employing temporary executives
3 March 2011
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PCTs will decide 'never event' fines for providers
3 March 2011
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The spirit of independent enterprise still requires sustainable business planning
3 March 2011
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'Without a firm battle plan, consortia might find themselves neither here nor there'
3 March 2011
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NHS Shropshire County submits planning application for community hospital
2-Mar-2011
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SHA returns reserves to NHS Herefordshire
2-Mar-2011
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DH forbids PCT cluster companies
2-Mar-2011
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NHS Manchester will have to make £10m savings in two months
1-Mar-2011
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Hole in NHS Oldham’s finances widens to £34.7m for next year
1-Mar-2011
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NHS Southwark at risk from £13.7m provider over-spends
1-Mar-2011
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Single Telford and Wrekin consortium
1-Mar-2011
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Single consortium emerging for Shropshire County
1-Mar-2011
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NHS Medway applies reserves to reach surplus
1-Mar-2011
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Brighton health charities receives government funding to keep going
1-Mar-2011
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Cancer gap with Europe 'not closed', report finds
1-Mar-2011
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'Care in the home' scheme helping reduce length of stay and hospital admissions
1-Mar-2011
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Bournemouth and Poole to lose chief exec in clustering arrangements
28-Feb-2011
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Royal Cornwall ordered to offer gynae patients alternative provider
28-Feb-2011
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Cornwall PCT engages with public on NHS reform
28-Feb-2011
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Northern Devon Healthcare Trust on course for FT status
28-Feb-2011
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NHS City & Hackney among capital's most successful in reducing GP referrals
28-Feb-2011
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'Historic' three way cluster announced for Devon
28-Feb-2011
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Slow progress on NHS Salford strategic investments leaves funds at risk
28-Feb-2011
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Staff remain at risk at NHS Islington and its PCT 'cluster'
28-Feb-2011
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NHS Harrow worst PCT in London for Chlamydia screening
28-Feb-2011
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Putting the trust in technology
28-Feb-2011
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NHS Brent's chief executive to move on
28-Feb-2011
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Care reviewed across Coventry and Rugby
28-Feb-2011
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Stockton PCT to pick shadow consortium board
25-Feb-2011
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North Staffs PCT reveals make-up and remit of shadow consortium
25-Feb-2011
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Trafford PCT seeks short-term caretaker for its provider arm
25-Feb-2011
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NHS Stockport forecasts £7m shortfall on turnaround savings plan
25-Feb-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire claws back money from SHA
25-Feb-2011
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New chair designate for super-cluster appointed
25-Feb-2011
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NHS Stoke on Trent signs concordat with council
25-Feb-2011
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Hospitals 'must adapt to survive'
25-Feb-2011
-
Weston Area Health Trust does deal with PCT on overperformance
24-Feb-2011
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Three consortia for Waltham Forest
24-Feb-2011
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Five consortia to cover Derby City and County PCTs
24-Feb-2011
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Kirklees looks set to have two consortia
24-Feb-2011
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Oxfordshire PCT to delegate most commissioning in April
24-Feb-2011
-
NHS Derby City awards walk-in centre contract to GP social enterprise
24-Feb-2011
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NHS Lincolnshire to develop services at Skegness Hospital
24-Feb-2011
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Commissioners flouting patient choice rules
24 February 2011
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NHS Enfield predicting £11.2m deficit for year-end
24 February 2011
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Noel Plumridge: trapped in PFI purgatory
24 February 2011
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Scrutiny of problem GPs raises concerns
24 February 2011
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NHS Sheffield seeking £5m savings in year
23-Feb-2011
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Two consortia emerging in NHS North Tyneside
23-Feb-2011
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NHS Newcastle sees two consortia emerging
23-Feb-2011
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NHS Surrey names 11 consortia
23-Feb-2011
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NHS Worcestershire to delegate £593m to consortia
23-Feb-2011
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Sutton and Merton to delegate upwards of £309m
23-Feb-2011
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South Gloucestershire PCT planning with single consortium
23-Feb-2011
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Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning
23-Feb-2011
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Lambeth eyes one consortium with three localities
23-Feb-2011
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NHS warned to expect surge in clinical negligence claims
23-Feb-2011
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PCTs fail to make half of savings targets
23-Feb-2011
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53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
23-Feb-2011
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PCT cluster retracts threat to cut public health posts
22-Feb-2011
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Conflict of interest concern in primary care centre cuts
22-Feb-2011
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Ministers warned PCT clustering 'will damage innovators'
21-Feb-2011
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Health Bill framework leaves NHS property up for grabs
17 February 2011
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Joint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m
17 February 2011
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The importance of administration, management and bureaucracy in healthcare
17 February 2011
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Trusts underestimating 'hidden' staff bank costs by 40 per cent
16-Feb-2011
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PCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise
16-Feb-2011
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Achieving better outcomes with learning disabilities services
16-Feb-2011
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Anti-trespass laws to be used to shift bed blocking patients
15-Feb-2011
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NHS County Durham developing consortia delegation plans
14-Feb-2011
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Two commissioning consortia emerging in Wolverhampton
14-Feb-2011
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Single Calderdale consortium developing delegation plans
14-Feb-2011
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Swindon PCT commissioning development at early stage
14-Feb-2011
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Leicestershire GPs opt for three consortia
14-Feb-2011
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SHA report finds concerns in out of hours services in Peterborough
14-Feb-2011
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Peterborough PCT arranges debt repayment
14-Feb-2011
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‘Cluster’ leadership role for NHS Brighton and Hove chief exec
14-Feb-2011
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Chief exec chosen to lead PCT ‘cluster’ including NHS West Sussex
14-Feb-2011
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Chief exec chosen to lead PCT ‘cluster’ including NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
14-Feb-2011
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Chief exec chosen to lead PCT ‘cluster’ including NHS Hastings and Rother
14-Feb-2011
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NHS Brighton and Hove yet to secure year-end surplus
14-Feb-2011
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'Brave' Brighton and Hove GPs to commission mental health first
14-Feb-2011
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Knowsley opts for two consortia after merger
14-Feb-2011
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NHS Bolton holding elections for two consortia
14-Feb-2011
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Absence savings targets will be hard to achieve, says Audit Commission
10 February 2011
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Bailouts, arbitration and postcode lotteries in London
10 February 2011
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GPs expected to bust Liverpool PCT’s prescribing budget
10-Feb-2011
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PCT non-execs to hold clusters to account
10 February 2011
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SHA arbitrates after dispute between trust and NHS Greenwich PCT cluster
10-Feb-2011
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Councillors criticise NHS South Gloucestershire over bed cuts plan
9-Feb-2011
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Chief executive appointed at Liverpool PCT’s former provider arm
9-Feb-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire confirms appointment of community chief exe
9-Feb-2011
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NHS North Staffordshire confirms appointment of community chief exec
9-Feb-2011
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Liverpool PCT plans new health centre
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Manchester on course for breakeven
9-Feb-2011
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Deficit grows to over £8m at NHS West Sussex
9-Feb-2011
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NHS West Sussex required to act on safeguarding
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Cornwall teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Plymouth teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Devon teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Wiltshire appoints joint finance director
9-Feb-2011
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NHS East Lancs sets £83m five-year savings target
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Birmingham East and North overspent by £9.7m
9-Feb-2011
-
IT savings help Bath and Somerset to underspend
9-Feb-2011
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Isle of Wight PCT begins work on future of its provider arm
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Bexley among three PCTs to have knuckles rapped over 'poor commissioning practice'
9-Feb-2011
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NHS Richmond's CFT moves step closer to acquiring PCT estate
9-Feb-2011
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North West London Hospitals Trust struggles on emergency four-hour target
9-Feb-2011
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PCTs negotiate Imperial College Healthcare Trust income down by £4m after mid-year review
8-Feb-2011
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Weston Area Healthcare Trust fears PCTs will not pay for any overperformance
8-Feb-2011
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Trust chief challenges PCTs on £150m efficiency savings
8-Feb-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire behind on LTC targets
8-Feb-2011
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NHS Warrington in-year deficit rose to £1.8m by end of November
8-Feb-2011
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NHS Stoke confirms appointment of community chief exec
8-Feb-2011
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PCT predicting management savings shortfall
8-Feb-2011
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Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT reports cancer target red risk
8-Feb-2011
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Central & Eastern Cheshire PCT forecasts £5.5m savings plan shortfall
8-Feb-2011
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St George's Healthcare Trust faces £4.3m in PCT challenges
8-Feb-2011
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Politicians to hold GMC to account
8-Feb-2011
-
Hounslow PCT criticised by local acute provider
7-Feb-2011
-
NHS Kingston 2011-12 QIPP plan aims for £9.6m savings
7-Feb-2011
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NHS Lambeth could save £7.2m by eliminating Procedure of Limited Clinical Effectiveness
7-Feb-2011
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NHS Tameside & Glossop underspends by £706,000
7-Feb-2011
-
NHS Stockport falls behind on savings plan
7-Feb-2011
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Eastern Kent PCT announces pathfinder consortia
7-Feb-2011
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Cancer care overhaul needed, says Macmillan
4-Feb-2011
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Kent PCT cluster appoints future chief exec
3-Feb-2011
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Salford may lodge an extra £2.5m with NHS North West
3-Feb-2011
-
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT overperforming on PCT budget
3-Feb-2011
-
PCT cluster discussions revealed
3-Feb-2011
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Community services transfers will miss TCS deadline
3 February 2011
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Flory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures
3 February 2011
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Noel Plumridge: the DH's fistful of figures
3 February 2011
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PCT overspending sparks fresh efficiency fears
3 February 2011
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Rigorous approach needed to improve QOF payments, report says
3 February 2011
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Three per cent of public health funds could go to Mayor
3 February 2011
-
Mid Essex PCT leading on safeguarding hub plan
2-Feb-2011
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Buckinghamshire PCT plans repeat primary care QIPP savings
2-Feb-2011
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Risk of deficit at Luton PCT
2-Feb-2011
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Berkshire East PCT uses reserves to ensure breakeven
2-Feb-2011
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Stroke care gets lowest rating at Berkshire West PCT
2-Feb-2011
-
South West Essex PCT still £11m over budget
2-Feb-2011
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South East Essex PCT faces £1.3m cost pressures
2-Feb-2011
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Continuing care overspend at Warwickshire PCT
1-Feb-2011
-
NHS Hillingdon to cut medicine spend with local acute by £2.7m in 2011-12
1-Feb-2011
-
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent chief exec to lead cluster
1-Feb-2011
-
NHS Redbridge plans to target the 20 biggest users of A&E
1-Feb-2011
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Transition 'carefully designed and managed', says government
1-Feb-2011
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The transition from primary care to independent provider
1-Feb-2011
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Leeds PCT delegates non-elective commissioning to pathfinder clusters
27-Jan-2011
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Coventry PCT to form consortia sub-committees
27-Jan-2011
-
Humana 'assured' client it was committed to UK market
27 January 2011
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Lansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses
26-Jan-2011
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Peterborough PCT establishes GP Commissioning Board
25-Jan-2011
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Bedfordshire PCT pays out almost £1m on MARS
25-Jan-2011
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Luton PCT's estates committee looking for projects
25-Jan-2011
-
Norfolk PCT behind schedule on QIPP plan
25-Jan-2011
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Non-elective activity drives overspend at West Essex PCT
25-Jan-2011
-
NHS Suffolk scraps TCS steering board after failed plan
25-Jan-2011
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Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT savings depend on admissions scheme
25-Jan-2011
-
South Staffs PCT reduces deficit
25-Jan-2011
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South Staffs PCT relying on care record cash to improve finances
25-Jan-2011
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Brighton and Hove PCT likely to cluster with rest of Sussex
25-Jan-2011
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Hastings and Rother PCT behind on finance plan
25-Jan-2011
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East Sussex PCT falling behind on finance plan
25-Jan-2011
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East Sussex PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
25-Jan-2011
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Medway PCT likely to cluster with rest of Kent
25-Jan-2011
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Eastern Kent PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
25-Jan-2011
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NHS Surrey likely to form cluster of its own
25-Jan-2011
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West Sussex PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
25-Jan-2011
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Barnsley PCT rated well for stroke care
25-Jan-2011
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Infections, screening and activity concern at South Tyneside PCT
25-Jan-2011
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Infections, screening and activity concern at Gateshead PCT
25-Jan-2011
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Infections, screening and activity concern at Sunderland PCT
25-Jan-2011
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West Kent PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
24-Jan-2011
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North Tyneside PCT records £3.5m overactivity
24-Jan-2011
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Newcastle PCT records £4m overactivity
24-Jan-2011
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The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders
24-Jan-2011
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What happens if the health reforms work?
24-Jan-2011
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NHS Surrey invites offers for £650m community services contract
21-Jan-2011
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Eastern Kent PCT to review maternity services
20-Jan-2011
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Stoke PCT ahead of game on breast screening
20-Jan-2011
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Small consortia will reduce savings, warns DH
19-Jan-2011
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Health secretary to get powers over commissioning board
19-Jan-2011
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'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'
19-Jan-2011
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'Stalinist' controls grip expiring SHAs
19-Jan-2011
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Michael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility
19-Jan-2011
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Noel Plumridge: SHAs need to decide their priorities, and soon
19-Jan-2011
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PCT directors warned over cluster job conditions
19-Jan-2011
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PCT grant cuts Dorset shortfall
18-Jan-2011
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MPs: NHS white paper lacked 'credible plan'
18-Jan-2011
-
RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS
17-Jan-2011
-
Warnings over NHS reforms
17-Jan-2011
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Minister fires warning shot over cuts to PCT public health posts
17-Jan-2011
-
London reviews future of PCT support body
13 January 2011
-
Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security
13 January 2011
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'Through the lens of commissioning consortia the world seems quite different'
13 January 2011
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South Central unveils PCT cluster plan
12-Jan-2011
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Norfolk community provider gets new chair
23-Dec-2010
-
PCT chair leaves for role at mental health trust
22-Dec-2010
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New chair for Cheshire PCT
20-Dec-2010
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PCT U-turns on plan to slash charity funding
20-Dec-2010
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Price competition could raise death rates, experts warn
17-Dec-2010
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Are NHS efficiency savings a dead dog?
17 December 2010
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Danger consortia will overlook networked services
16-Dec-2010
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DH figures show pathfinder GPs are set to bust budgets
17 December 2010
-
PCTs identify roles to hand on speedily
17 December 2010
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Plans for 'at risk' NHS staff revealed
16-Dec-2010
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Think tanks warn reforms are distraction from QIPP
16-Dec-2010
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BMA criticises government for 'disregarding' the concerns of doctors
15-Dec-2010
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Consortia should not inherit debts from PCTs, says government
15-Dec-2010
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Hospitals to face mixed sex ward fines
15-Dec-2010
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PCTs given average 3 per cent rise in funding
15-Dec-2010
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Consortia to get £25-35 per head for running costs
15-Dec-2010
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Chief exec takes on extra PCT for no extra pay
14-Dec-2010
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Maximum 0.3 per cent increase for PCT allocations
10-Dec-2010
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'Don't allow healthcare and public health improvement to be divided'
9 December 2010
-
Management posts shed without full consultation
9 December 2010
-
MP questions strategic health planning base
9 December 2010
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Sharing healthcare costs, pooling healthcare risks
9 December 2010
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PCT chief execs leave for national roles
3-Dec-2010
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Payment by Results
2-Dec-2010
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Department of Health maps end of PCTs and SHAs
2 December 2010
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Noel Plumridge: Must no deficit mean saying no to delivery?
2 December 2010
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PCTs restrict many treatments as overspend looms
2 December 2010
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Prepare now for divesting provider arms
2-Dec-2010
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Few surprises in public health white paper
30-Nov-2010
-
NHS Haringey and Great Ormond Street end contract
30-Nov-2010
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London to fund development pot for pathfinders
30-Nov-2010
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PCT grip on local priorities being 'eroded'
30-Nov-2010
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PCT stroke spending at odds with outcomes
30-Nov-2010
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NHS London gives hundreds of staff at-risk notices
25-Nov-2010
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Cumbria chief loses £1m pension appeal
25 November 2010
-
Public health body fears PCTs are ‘asset stripping’
25 November 2010
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Smaller fines for mixed sex accommodation
25 November 2010
-
Southern PCTs least efficient at referral
25 November 2010
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Lansley denies reforms have caused PCT 'meltdown'
23-Nov-2010
-
PCTs need to up game on out of hours coding
23-Nov-2010
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Confed and RCGP to set up network for consortia
23-Nov-2010
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PCT job losses 'will happen within a year' - Unison
23-Nov-2010
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GPs 'face patient revolt over reform plans'
22-Nov-2010
-
Fundamentals of the NHS
21-Nov-2010
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Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions
21-Nov-2010
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Top staff to move into community services, says Nicholson
19-Nov-2010
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Academics criticise the pace of change
19-Nov-2010
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Our lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands
19-Nov-2010
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Ex PCT chief exec loses £1m pension in tribunal case
18-Nov-2010
-
GPs get a check-up of their own as a new era dawns
18 November 2010
-
NHS cancer spending queried by National Audit Office
18 November 2010
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MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail
17-Nov-2010
-
Lancashire PCTs to review funding for 70 procedures
16-Nov-2010
-
PCT talent to be assigned to consortia
16-Nov-2010
-
Report points to prison care lapses
15-Nov-2010
-
£800m savings identified through better COPD care
11 November 2010
-
GP consortia: new roles and new rules
11 November 2010
-
Spending review roundtable: going back to the 1980s?
11 November 2010
-
Nicholson letter suggests caution on scrapping PCTs
10-Nov-2010
-
DH chief warns consortia off using PCTs for commissioning support
10-Nov-2010
-
DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs
10-Nov-2010
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Hakin warns against consortia using PCTs for commissioning support
9-Nov-2010
-
Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs
8-Nov-2010
-
Strategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'
8-Nov-2010
-
Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend
4-Nov-2010
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'Major NHS reforms are driven by the heart, not the calculator'
4 November 2010
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Practice based commissioning academy gets rebranded
4 November 2010
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Private sector gets 6pc of big ticket NHS spend
4 November 2010
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Your Humble Servant: home front
4 November 2010
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Voluntary MARS pay-off plan attracts very few takers
3-Nov-2010
-
Concern over rate of PCT talent drain
2-Nov-2010
-
PCT defends contraceptive pill decision
2-Nov-2010
-
Worcestershire chief exec to retire via MARS
1-Nov-2010
-
Seven provider arms achieve NHS trust status
29-Oct-2010
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PCT chief exec steps down via MARS
28-Oct-2010
-
Big Society: little guys vs big guns
28 October 2010
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No evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs
28 October 2010
-
DH considers national pay increment freeze
27-Oct-2010
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Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend
26-Oct-2010
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PCT halts funding for over 30 procedures to 'remain sustainable'
26-Oct-2010
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Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson
21-Oct-2010
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Slow down will 'strangle' reforms, warns NAPC
21-Oct-2010
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'La La is throwing his limited political capital into reshuffling bureaucracy'
21 October 2010
-
NHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs
21 October 2010
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Britnell sets up commissioning academy with NAPC
20-Oct-2010
-
Risk management will be flash point for PCTs and GP consortia
20-Oct-2010
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Leicester PCTs to make five senior posts redundant in merger plan
19-Oct-2010
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RCGP to launch commissioning support centre
19-Oct-2010
-
GP takes over at North East Lincs
19-Oct-2010
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London trusts top of patient complaints list
19-Oct-2010
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Chief exec of second Essex PCT cluster named
14-Oct-2010
-
SHAs contrast sharply on community proposals
14 October 2010
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Take the lead in preventing ill health
14 October 2010
-
College to lobby for inclusion of secondary care in consortia
13-Oct-2010
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Alliance warns that consortia must be 'coordinated, not directed'
13-Oct-2010
-
Essex PCT plans to shed over 220 staff in £5.7m savings bid
12-Oct-2010
-
Lansley plays down 'scale and pace' concerns over GP commissioning
12-Oct-2010
-
Future RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'
11-Oct-2010
-
King's Fund warns about 'scale and pace' of reforms
7-Oct-2010
-
GP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net
7 October 2010
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'Lansley needs to make the intellectual case for PCT upheaval'
7 October 2010
-
PCT functions 'need clarification'
7 October 2010
-
PCTs make slow progress with QIPP
7 October 2010
-
The right way to form GP consortia
7 October 2010
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Transforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
7 October 2010
-
NHS managers hit back at reforms
6-Oct-2010
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Consortia may boost GP data
6-Oct-2010
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Out of hours performance variation to be made public
6-Oct-2010
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Lansley gives PCTs more cash but defends their abolition
5-Oct-2010
-
Milton rejects claim that NHS reforms are 'weak link' in government policy
5-Oct-2010
-
Union launches anti-white paper campaign
4-Oct-2010
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GP commissioners must not ignore specialist advice, surgeons warn
4-Oct-2010
-
South Essex PCTs confirm creation of cluster
1-Oct-2010
-
List of PCT functions drawn up to aid formation of GP consortia
30-Sep-2010
-
First GP consortia launched in Cambridgeshire
30-Sep-2010
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Essex PCTs to unveil single chief executive
30 September 2010
-
NHS managers explore 'plan B' for PCTs
30 September 2010
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PCT spending by disease to be analysed
30 September 2010
-
Commissioning for outcomes
29-Sep-2010
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NHS reform deadlines 'unrealistic'
28-Sep-2010
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Lansley attempts to kick start GPs on commissioning
24-Sep-2010
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PCT asked not to claw back wage overpayment
23 September 2010
-
New chief exec takes over at Hertfordshire PCT
22-Sep-2010
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Jon Restell on why managers are worth it
16 September 2010
-
London in talks over PCT mergers
15-Sep-2010
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Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
15-Sep-2010
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Commissioning for outcomes
13-Sep-2010
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Chris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency
9 September 2010
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Noel Plumridge on axes and accountability
9 September 2010
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Warning over scale of task of replacing PCTs
9 September 2010
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'Primary care trusts? Send in the marines'
2 September 2010
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Poor data reporting skews palliative care spending picture
1-Sep-2010
-
Social enterprise bid rethink by North East PCTs
1-Sep-2010
-
English language requirements
28-Aug-2010
-
GPs pose £2bn threat to commissioning budget
26 August 2010
-
Lansley attacks 'damage morale and independence'
26 August 2010
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End of life care
25-Aug-2010
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GPs: out of hours and out of pocket?
23-Aug-2010
-
BMA sets out principles for GP commissioning
20-Aug-2010
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Public health: Is your activity on target?
20-Aug-2010
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Competition scrutiny for North West
19 August 2010
-
PCT support agency will look beyond London
19 August 2010
-
PCTs rein in management consultant spending
19 August 2010
-
PCT and UnitedHealth end deal
18-Aug-2010
-
Gypsies' and Travellers' health: the road to greater inclusion
17-Aug-2010
-
Updated CQC regulations
16-Aug-2010
-
Quality through CQUIN
16-Aug-2010
-
GP referral management schemes fail to deliver
12 August 2010
-
'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'
12 August 2010
-
'La la Lansley has abolished the people who monitor us'
12 August 2010
-
NHS management cuts hotspots revealed
12 August 2010
-
World class commissioning interactive map
12 August 2010
-
World class commissioning league table
12 August 2010
-
World class commissioning values are a legacy for the long haul
12 August 2010
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World class commissioning: PCTs raise the bar in final assurance test
12 August 2010
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World class commissioning: this ridiculed plan might just be working
12 August 2010
-
PCT trains GP commissioners
11-Aug-2010
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Social marketing in health: the right tools for the job
11-Aug-2010
-
PCT chief exec calls time on NHS career due to illness
9-Aug-2010
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Struggling PCT appoints second interim CEO this year
9-Aug-2010
-
A nervous kind of NHS reorganisation
5 August 2010
-
Cally Bann: the white paper
5 August 2010
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Is this the end of the road for PCTs?
5 August 2010
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NHS brand undermined by online confusion
5 August 2010
-
PCTs begin planning to reinvent their business
5 August 2010
-
PCTs improve commissioning performance
5 August 2010
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Coalition in 'reckless gamble' with NHS, says Burnham
2-Aug-2010
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Public and partner organisations
2-Aug-2010
-
GPs could be forced to take on ex-PCT managers
29 July 2010
-
The new healthcare revolution
29 July 2010
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Uncertainty still dogs PCTs during transfer of power
29 July 2010
-
How to tackle poor housing standards and improve health
28-Jul-2010
-
MPs to revisit commissioning with inquiry
27-Jul-2010
-
Patient involvement lacking in South West cancer service reconfiguration
22-Jul-2010
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Model for managing consortia financial risk remains unclear
22-Jul-2010
-
Consortia to 'challenge' GP practices on quality and productivity
22-Jul-2010
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DH asks if size limits should be set for GP consortia
22-Jul-2010
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Concerns over standard of specialist care
22 July 2010
-
GPs ‘won’t guarantee out of hours quality’
22 July 2010
-
Known unknowns form the white paper’s core
22 July 2010
-
Local authority and PCT partnerships
22-Jul-2010
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Mark Britnell: PCTs can carve out a new role
22 July 2010
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Nicholson warns of tightening central grip over PCTs and providers
22 July 2010
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PCTs should ‘reinvent’ themselves, says Britnell
22 July 2010
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PCTs told to hand over resources to GP commissioners
22-Jul-2010
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Sir David praises 'heroic' PCT and SHA managers
22 July 2010
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NHS Bury appoints former newspaper editor as chair
21-Jul-2010
-
Election bid PCT chair leaves role
19-Jul-2010
-
HSJ webcast - white paper major challenge for PCT management
19-Jul-2010
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CQC report: PCTs failed to monitor out of hours provider
15-Jul-2010
-
Audit Commission extends payment by results checks
15 July 2010
-
Council role to supplant PCTs
14-Jul-2010
-
SHA and PCT jobs crisis ahead
14-Jul-2010
-
White paper timeline
14-Jul-2010
-
NHS Kingston gains permission for social enterprise
14-Jul-2010
-
Norfolk community service provider appoints chair
14-Jul-2010
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Nicholson warns DH may 'take powers' over £1.7bn of PCT allocations this year
13-Jul-2010
-
Social marketing: how to inspire people to change their behaviour
13-Jul-2010
-
The cost of poor quality healthcare and how to put it right
13-Jul-2010
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Government warned reform plans will 'turn NHS upside down'
12-Jul-2010
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Lansley: 'no job left for PCTs'
12-Jul-2010
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Weak evidence supporting GP commissioning plan - Civitas
12-Jul-2010
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London hospital hired out for porn film
6-Jul-2010
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Clarity is the key to tackling excess admissions
1 July 2010
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DH to consult on cutting its supplied staff
1 July 2010
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Minister visits hospital at centre of A&E reconfiguration row
1 July 2010
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PCTs lose right to stay as direct providers
30-Jun-2010
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GPs should be given commissioning budgets now
29-Jun-2010
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PCTs to 'road test' direct payments to patients
28-Jun-2010
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NHS Surrey attracts Hertfordshire chief exec
25-Jun-2010
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PCT to downgrade A&E despite Lansley policy
24 June 2010
-
PCTs will be able to 'park' provider arms
24 June 2010
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Pool NHS and social care budgets, says Confed acting chief exec
23-Jun-2010
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Flood hit Cumbrian town seeks new community hospital
23-Jun-2010
-
SW Essex community services to integrate with FT
23-Jun-2010
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Government must heed restructuring lessons, says Confed
23-Jun-2010
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County wide leadership role for Essex chief exec
22-Jun-2010
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HSJ survey: How closely do you work with local government?
21-Jun-2010
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'Don't doubt the government’s commitment to radical NHS reform'
17 June 2010
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Michael White on NHS reorganisation
17 June 2010
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Over half of PCTs lose executive directors
17 June 2010
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We embrace NHS reform – but not the idea of a clinical takeover
17-Jun-2010
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Who will help GPs if managers are laid off?
17-Jun-2010
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PCTs, councils and firms 'will commission for GPs'
10-Jun-2010
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Chair steps down at PCT with £12.8m overspend
10 June 2010
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Dangers of putting GPs in charge outweigh the rewards
10 June 2010
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Hard budgets for GPs – profit or productivity?
10 June 2010
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PCTs falling out of love with management consultants
10 June 2010
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PCTs to lose responsibility for GPs
10 June 2010
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Predictions on the new government's next moves
10 June 2010
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Spearhead PCTs achieve limited success on cancer survival
10 June 2010
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Your Humble Servant: Coabolition
10 June 2010
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NHS Hull completes move to social enterprise
9-Jun-2010
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Connected Care model seeks to ease local service integration
8-Jun-2010
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Residential care commissioning leaves room for improvement
7-Jun-2010
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‘In intervention’ PCT is to investigate failings
3 June 2010
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John Deffenbaugh: let us exploit our canny GPs
3 June 2010
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Capturing the costs of community services
1-Jun-2010
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Former MP appointed as PCT chair
28-May-2010
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New PCT medical director
26-May-2010
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Court to rule on transsexual case
25-May-2010
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How to use predictive risk modelling in healthcare
25-May-2010
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Lib Dems win ground on directly elected PCT boards
20-May-2010
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Health checks for all?
20-May-2010
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Coalition document sets out raft of NHS reforms
20-May-2010
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Cally Bann: it's going to be crap and we're all in it together
20 May 2010
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GUM data ruled off limits to commissioners
20 May 2010
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PCT manager costs vary widely
20 May 2010
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PCT tells patients the cost of their care and services
20 May 2010
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PCTs 'missing out' on Twitter power
14-May-2010
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New government must give rapid clarity on community service plans
12-May-2010
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Mark Goldman on NHS trust takeovers
6 May 2010
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How to target PCT internet campaigns
4-May-2010
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Elected PCT boards - we're not ready
29 April 2010
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Judith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off
29 April 2010
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NHS patients in richer areas get operations earlier
29 April 2010
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Self care provider to introduce 'payment by results' pilot
29 April 2010
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Alan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay
22 April 2010
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Clusters show potential to halve number of PCTs
22 April 2010
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PCTs depend on commissioning support
22 April 2010
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Commissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions
21-Apr-2010
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'Trust' key to joint working between PCTs and pharma
21-Apr-2010
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How safe is out of hours GP provision in your PCT?
20-Apr-2010
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NHS sustainability: moving care into the community
19-Apr-2010
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‘Few quick fixes’ for London health inequalities
15 April 2010
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Noel Plumridge on the NHS budget
15 April 2010
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PCT faces protest over historic building sell-off
15 April 2010
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PCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
15 April 2010
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Disputed branch surgery gets go-ahead from government
14-Apr-2010
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Out of hours GP vetting needs clarity
14-Apr-2010
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New finance lead for Barking and Dagenham
9-Apr-2010
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PCT pushes on with community hospital plan
9-Apr-2010
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London merger plans revealed
8 April 2010
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Norman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies
8 April 2010
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Essex PCTs diverge on community provider plans
1-Apr-2010
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Hillingdon and Enfield to integrate with mental health sector
1-Apr-2010
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‘Aggressive’ PCTs provoke legal threat
1-Apr-2010
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After two decades of wandering, commissioning has a destination
1-Apr-2010
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PCTs gain powers to force services out to community
1-Apr-2010
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Preferred provider guidance leaves waters muddy
31-Mar-2010
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NHS Cumbria appoints chair
31-Mar-2010
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Six PCTs allowed to keep status quo on structure
31-Mar-2010
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Andy Jones on defining NHS quality
31 March 2010
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PCTs 'too passive on commissioning'
30-Mar-2010
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Lambeth and Southwark provider arms to integrate with Guy's and St Thomas’
26-Mar-2010
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Hammersmith and Fulham named council of the year
25-Mar-2010
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A&E alternatives ‘confuse’ the public
25 March 2010
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Andy McKeon: why money could not unravel the NHS red tape
25 March 2010
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Chris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
25 March 2010
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David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology
25 March 2010
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PCTs 'slow to make decisions on business cases'
25 March 2010
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Specialised commissioning advisory body to be created
25 March 2010
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West Midlands to cluster PCTs to reduce management costs
25 March 2010
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Cambridgeshire PCT provider arm to become first 'community NHS trust'
23-Mar-2010
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Dementia funding being diverted
18-Mar-2010
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Norfolk records major drop in bed blocking
18-Mar-2010
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DH must help make integration seamless
18 March 2010
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NHS is yet to capture the wealth of the net
18 March 2010
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SHAs pressurising PCTs into vertical integration
18 March 2010
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Social care integration drive
18 March 2010
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World class commissioning scores to top charts
18 March 2010
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Your Humble Servant: lights, camera, casualty
18 March 2010
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Andrew Haldenby on hospital closures and competition
17-Mar-2010
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DH advocacy of integration ‘not credible’
17-Mar-2010
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DH action needed to fill gaps in NHS data
16-Mar-2010
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Chief exec swaps Norfolk for Channel Islands
12-Mar-2010
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NHS Manchester tables complex community restructuring plan
11-Mar-2010
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‘Preferred provider’ policy unravels
11 March 2010
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Kidney profiles published
11 March 2010
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Out of hours GP contracts need greater transparency
11 March 2010
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PCTs' spending on carers under scrutiny
10-Mar-2010
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PCT provider plan deadline stands
10-Mar-2010
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PCTs preparing for cuts not savings, warn GPs
10-Mar-2010
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DH launches £8m campaign to improve early diagnosis of cancer
8-Mar-2010
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NICE completes the commissioning cycle
8-Mar-2010
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DH accused of 'backroom deal' over preferred provider case
4-Mar-2010
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Noel Plumridge on the rules of payment by results
4 March 2010
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Hertfordshire PCTs merge into one
3-Mar-2010
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Oxfordshire chief exec appointed
3-Mar-2010
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New chief executive in post
26-Feb-2010
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Community care plans could lead to a new generation of NHS organisations
25 February 2010
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NHS London makes lead commissioners directors
25 February 2010
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PCT Network appointment
25 February 2010
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PCTs call for lighter commissioning assessment
25 February 2010
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Priorities for quality pilots
25 February 2010
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Fresh investigations stall Kingston branch surgery plans
24-Feb-2010
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Acute trusts could pay for post discharge care
24-Feb-2010
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LINks voice not being heard at PCT board meetings
24-Feb-2010
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PCT chief executive dies
23-Feb-2010
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Hull social enterprise plan back on track
22-Feb-2010
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Bucks PCT set for vertical integration
22-Feb-2010
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How to use NICE guidance to improve commissioning
22-Feb-2010
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Alan Maynard: could the Tories give PCTs bite?
18 February 2010
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Blackburn care trust plus given go ahead
17-Feb-2010
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Transforming community services: handover heralds a flexible future
16-Feb-2010
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Andrew Lansley points to joint powers in public health
11 February 2010
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PCTs dispute management cost figures
11 February 2010
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PCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation
11 February 2010
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Tories: no council control of public health budgets
11-Feb-2010
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Public health: Birmingham gets fit with a purpose
9-Feb-2010
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Heart of Birmingham PCT appoints new interim chief exec
5-Feb-2010
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DH dismisses own advisory panel's claims on procurement and competition as 'anecdote'
4-Feb-2010
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Norman Lamb: abolish quangos and SHAs
4 February 2010
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PCTs urged to invest in prevention
4 February 2010
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SHAs plan staff cuts of up to 10pc
4 February 2010
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Mid Essex chief takes on dual role at Peterborough
3-Feb-2010
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Local partnerships fail on children's health priorities
3-Feb-2010
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London boroughs call for healthcare devolution
1-Feb-2010
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Bill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
28 January 2010
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SHA steps in to GP branch row
28 January 2010
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SHAs return to topslicing budgets
28 January 2010
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Provider arms given timetable to vertically integrate
27-Jan-2010
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Peterborough PCT chief steps down as deficits pile high
22-Jan-2010
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PCT benefits from ambitious knowledge and skills framework redesign
22-Jan-2010
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Elder care pilot slashes hospital admissions
21 January 2010
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MPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
21 January 2010
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NHS East of England urged to work better with PCTs
21 January 2010
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Rise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs
21 January 2010
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This is PCTs’ admission of failure – but everyone shares the blame
21 January 2010
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Cancer care plans could cut costs
20-Jan-2010
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World class commissioning: the human factor
18-Jan-2010
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Brian James: how to save NHS services in a recession
14 January 2010
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DH drawn into row over GP practice expansion
14 January 2010
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PCTs face redesign backlashes as cost cuts loom
14 January 2010
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Politics ‘distracting’ from NHS quality drive
14 January 2010
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NHS Stockport chief executive starts joint role
12-Jan-2010
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PCTs falling behind on maternity access
7 January 2010
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Four SHAs have swine flu jab deals in place
6-Jan-2010
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NHS Medway appoints chair
5-Jan-2010
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East of England reaches deal on swine flu vaccine
23-Dec-2009
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Two primary care trusts awarded teaching status
21-Dec-2009
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NHS Alliance predicts positive results from changes to tariff
17-Dec-2009
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Tariff change may up transaction costs
17-Dec-2009
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Drink danger video removed from web
17-Dec-2009
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Foundation trusts urged to take over more NHS activity
16-Dec-2009
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PCTs could struggle to hit MRSA ‘objective’
16-Dec-2009
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Tariff puts brake on acute admissions
16-Dec-2009
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Job cuts could see up to 5,700 staff go from PCT and SHA management
16-Dec-2009
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Medical director for Islington PCT
16-Dec-2009
