All Health Service Journal articles in 17 December 2010 – Page 2
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News
Productivity gains elude NHS trusts
The NHS failed at the twin challenges of reducing emergency admissions and providing more care outside hospital in the last financial year, according to an Audit Commission report.
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News
Think tanks warn reforms are distraction from QIPP
The King’s Fund has warned that the government’s overhaul of the health service may not increase productivity or drive up quality.
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RCN 'extremely disappointed' at lack of nurse inclusion in reforms
Government reforms will “struggle to succeed” without more engagement with nurses, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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News
Lansley defends NHS reforms to MPs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley defended his NHS reforms to the House of Commons health committee on Wednesday, denying they will have a “destabilising” impact on services.
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Comment
Are NHS efficiency savings a dead dog?
In the golden years of transatlantic airfreight, a turboprop landed in Newfoundland to refuel.
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News
More criminals will get psychiatric help
Teams to divert criminal offenders with mental health needs to NHS services will be rolled out nationally by 2014, the government has announced.
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News
Danger consortia will overlook networked services
Measures must be put in place to ensure that networked hospital services covering large geographical areas are not overlooked when GPs take responsibility for commissioning, surgeons have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Introduction to procurement and competition for CCGs
CCGs need to be aware of procurement and competition rules and their application.
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HSJ Partners
Case Study: GP commissioning in Cambridgeshire
Mills & Reeve explore how consortia in Cambridgeshire have involved GPs from the start to smooth the transition.
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Comment
Redesign to save NHS from slash and burn
Dear Sir,In a blunt assessment of the coming few years, the Commons Health Select Committee recently stated that the NHS must achieve efficiency savings on a scale never before seen here, or indeed in other countries.
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News
DH figures show pathfinder GPs are set to bust budgets
A significant number of the new “pathfinder” commissioning consortia are on track to bust their budgets this financial year, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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News
Commissioning group rapped for rules breach
The NHS competition watchdog has recommended the North West specialised commissioning group is barred from entering into long term “framework agreements” with providers.
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News
Hereford integrated care organisation approved
A new form of integrated care organisation has received approval from the cooperation and competition panel.
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News
'Firm action' needed to avert disaster during transition period
The government must take “firm action” over the transition period to allow its “high-risk” reforms to succeed as the point of no return has passed, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Comment
What contracting skills will CCGs need to acquire?
Learn to handle contracting with confidence
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News
Computer models could help NHS save £20bn
The NHS could use computer simulations to help find £20bn savings needed by April 2015.
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HSJ Knowledge
Introduction to the standard NHS contract 2012/13
The structure and key areas of the standard contract
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News
Another reconfiguration passes Lansley's 'four tests'
One of the reconfigurations stopped under Andrew Lansley’s post-election moratorium on hospital closures has been approved by a strategic health authority.
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Leader
'Lansley may play down his reforms' radicalism, but this does not involve big changes to his plans'
“Some have argued Liberating the NHS constitutes an unwise distraction from the quality and productivity challenge facing the NHS.
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News
More powers for health ombudsman and local health forums
The health service ombudsman is to get more powers to share information in a bid to prevent another Mid Staffs while local HealthWatch groups will have a direct link to the Care Quality Commission.