All Commissioning articles – Page 111
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NewsBetter care fund bailout for acute trusts is agreed
Better care fund cash will be used to compensate acute hospitals when local integration initiatives fail to reduce emergency admissions
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CommentIntegration Summit: Accountability must start with genuine co-production
Commissioners need to build trust among their partners
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CommentIntegration Summit: Closed doors and outward attitudes tell a story
Hear from the facilitator
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CommentIntegration Summit: Are you the glue that binds joint working or the treacle that gets in the way?
There are clear obstacles to joint working
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CommentInteraction is required to make integration a reality
It needs co-operation between HWB members
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NewsNHS England to offer local commissioning 'step-change'
Simon Stevens is set to invite clinical commissioning groups and local authorities to experiment with a further “step change” in joint commissioning arrangements.
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NewsNHS England struggling to balance £97bn budget
NHS England this week confirmed it had still not managed to set plans to balance its £97bn budget for 2014-15, in what experts saw as a sign that the NHS overall could face financial crisis sooner than expected.
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NewsNHS England and UCLH in contracting dispute
NHS England is in dispute with University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust over £75m of the trust’s specialised services contract for this financial year.
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NewsHunt: CCGs must become 'accountable care organisations'
Clinical commissioning groups must become more accountable as they expand their role in delivering healthcare, the health secretary has said
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CommentDon't let the glut of pilot projects distract from patient safety
New models of care are too fragmented
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HSJ KnowledgeHeatherwood-Frimley Park shows the way through merger process
Pass the test of the law
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NewsCCGs 'should have more control over winter pressures funding'
A clinical commissioning group leader has called for commissioners to have more control over “winter pressures” funding, rather than having to pass it directly to providers.
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NewsExclusive: Monitor launches probe of community service contracts
Monitor has launched an investigation into clinical commissioning groups’ intentions for the £10bn community services sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAround 180 CCGs bid for primary care co-commissioning
Bids to co-commission primary care have been submitted by around 180 of England’s 211 clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England: CCG interest in controlling CSUs 'evaporates'
The appetite of clinical commissioning groups to take control of their support service suppliers has dwindled, NHS England has claimed today.
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NewsStevens putting 'rigour' into care fund approval process, minister says
Simon Stevens is ‘insisting on real rigour in the process’ of approving better care fund plans, care services minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere now for the NHS's best leadership talent?
How one programme has inspired and retained new NHS leaders
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CommentLocal providers can step up to trump national players
We can offer more attractive solutions