All Commissioning articles – Page 102
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HSJ PartnersHow providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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HSJ PartnersCommissioning special report: What’s good care when it’s at home?
How one CCG is delivering more care in the community
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NewsTwo commissioning support units plan to merge
Two commissioning support units have announced they will formally merge.
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HSJ LocalNEW Devon sets out service cut plans
FINANCE: Surgical procedures for prostate cancer, hernias and cataracts are among a raft of treatments that could be restricted or stopped in one of the country’s most financially challenged health economies.
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CommentThe three ways to drive transformational change in the NHS
How a new programme will strengthen the NHS
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SupplementsSurvey results: putting pathology services to the test
How can healthcare organisations get the greatest benefit from pathology?
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NewsStaffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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HSJ PartnersSupport end of life care at home through partnership working
Marie Curie makes a difference in Durham and Darlington
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HSJ LocalOxfordshire better care fund plan 'unrealistic'
Oxfordshire commissioners failed to submit a realistic better care fund plan in part because they were distracted by work on other local integration initiatives, they have admitted.
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CommentPolicymakers were too optimistic about the better care fund
Rethink how the integration policy works
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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NewsCSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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HSJ KnowledgePrevention is a better investment than cure
Preventing illness is a wiser use of money for CCGs
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NewsPatients 'denied treatments' because of 'Kafkaesque' commissioning regime
Patients are being denied access to life changing treatments because parts of NHS England’s “Kafkaesque” commissioning regime appear to have ground to a halt, clinicians and charities have warned
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NewsNo cash for co-commissioning running costs, NHS England confirms
Clinical commissioning groups will not be awarded extra funding to run primary care co-commissioning, NHS England has confirmed.
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NewsExpensive drugs to be cut from cancer drugs fund
NHS England is to start evaluating the cost effectiveness of medicines available through the cancer drugs fund in a bid to bring the budget under control
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HSJ KnowledgeTake the local lead on health inequalities
A new strategic approach to improve public health
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HSJ Local18 week waits, September 2014: explore the maps
See all NHS waiting lists around England by provider, CCG or specialty
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NewsNHS finances ‘absolutely on the knife edge’
The health service is “absolutely on the knife edge” with no reserve left to cushion against unforeseen pressures, NHS England officials have warned
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HSJ LocalBedford refuses to sign Circle MSK contract
An NHS hospital has pledged to compete with Circle Partnership, the private provider appointed to run Bedfordshire’s £120m integrated musculoskeletal service, after refusing to become its subcontractor, HSJ can reveal.