All Commissioning articles – Page 125
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HSJ Knowledge
Achieve equity in access to sickle cell services
Allocating resources to thalassaemia service provision
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Comment
Taking the pulse of health and wellbeing boards
A national survey of HWBs offers grounds for optimism
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News
Revealed: the 24 CCGs forecasting deficits in their first year
There are now clinical commissioning groups expecting to finish their first year of operation in the red in each of the four English NHS regions, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Team effort: Commissioning through alliance contracts
The benefits and risks of a new way for the NHS to do business
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News
Controversial radiotherapy on offer to patients again
Cancer patients who were denied access to a cutting edge therapy under NHS England’s specialised commissioning policies will be able to access it again if they agree to take part in a clinical trial.
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News
Growing QIPP shortfall predicted
NHS commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans and becoming more pessimistic about whether they will hit their year-end targets, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Serco seeks NHS help to fill vacancies
Outsourcing giant Serco has asked NHS organisations for help filling vacancies at Suffolk Community Healthcare amid concerns over its performance.
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News
Health leaders question NHS progress, survey finds
Two in every five NHS senior leaders believe the health service is in a worse condition following the current government’s reorganisation, according to a survey by a consultancy firm.
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HSJ Knowledge
Take outpatient clinics out of the system
Four ways make mental health care fit for the 21st century
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News
Francis response: New patient safety drive from NHS England
A major patient safety improvement programme and new incident report and alert systems are to be introduced by NHS England in response to the Francis inquiry.
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News
NHS England to move into DH offices to save £1m
NHS England is to move its London office into a building with the Department of Health to save around £1m a year.
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Comment
Cancer patients' journeys need joining up
Integrated care can be a positive for people with cancer
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News
Exclusive: Official staffing guidance to order 'urgent' nurse staffing reviews
NHS providers should recruit more staff if their current workforce plans do not take account of staff training and unplanned leave, new government backed guidance is set to say.
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News
Budget cuts likely to spell job losses for commissioning support staff
There is a growing expectation that commissioning support staff face further rounds of redundancies driven by cuts to the NHS management budget, HSJ has learned.
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News
Revealed: Four options proposed for CSU autonomy
Commissioning support units will be given a choice of four options for becoming independent, under proposals under consideration by senior leaders at NHS England.
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News
Watch live: balancing clinical efficacy of treatments with quality of life
Join this free HSJ webinar on 27 November
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News
Revealed: the £2bn switch back to payment by results
More than £2bn of acute service funding has moved away from locally agreed deals and onto the national payment by results tariff this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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News
CCGs told to work together as 'too small' for major change
Most clinical commissioning groups will be expected to come together to draw up their critical long term service change strategies across larger patches approved by NHS England, under guidance seen by HSJ.
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Comment
Readers’ letters – 15 November 2013
Readers say getting it right for diabetes can act as an exemplar, while scrapping the innovation fund is a ‘devasting blow’
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HSJ Knowledge
How Bath developed new thinking on coping with winter pressures
A new approach to seasonal care