All Commissioning articles – Page 133
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NewsExclusive: Mental health sector hit by beds shortage
Mental health patients requiring urgent hospital admission face long journeys − in some cases hundreds of miles − amid growing evidence of a shortage of beds, HSJ has learned.
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CommentPatient data: finding the right balance
Striking the right balance between the protection and use of patient data
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HSJ KnowledgeCommissioning support units must raise their game
How can CSUs secure their future success?
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CCGs plan integrated emergency service
Two clinical commissioning groups in Cheshire are drawing up plans to set up the first integrated pathway for emergency care, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Nottingham fined over C diff cases
PERFORMANCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust faces a fine of approximately £40,000 after exceeding its of clostridium difficile target.
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SupplementsBeating down the barriers - an HSJ roundtable
HSJ’s latest roundtable agreed that the potential savings in commissioning are huge - but age old problems stand in the way of realising them
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NewsMulti-year allocations could aid local contracting, Monitor review finds
Multi-year budget allocations could help commissioners develop local contracting more effectively, Monitor has said.
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CommentWhy the ONS consultation matters to the NHS
Proposed cuts will impact those commissioning services
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NewsExclusive: NHS England may outsource further functions to CSUs
NHS England is to carry out a fundamental review of its use of commissioning support units, which could see more of the national commissioning body’s back office functions being outsourced, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ KnowledgeSolving the radiology workforce challenge
How to achieve increased output with fewer staff and resources
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NewsAmbulance trusts step into breach to provide NHS 111
NHS ambulance services are to take on the temporary provision of NHS 111 in most of the areas where NHS Direct is pulling out of delivery, the health advice provider has announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeThree ways NHS England's review can improve incentives
How do we ensure incentives improve quality of care?
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NewsConcerns over single-specialism 'integration' plans
Senior figures in healthcare have questioned moves by clinical commissioning groups to introduce “integrated” care pathways for single clinical specialisms, such as cancer or cardiology.
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NewsCouncil chiefs urge cross-party care consensus
Local authority efforts to reform health and social care has been put at risk by the pace of government cuts, council chiefs have warned.
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NewsHunt: GPs must improve elderly care
Jeremy Hunt has called on GPs to “rediscover family doctoring”, and again said he wants to make changes to their contracts to encourage them to “take better care of older patients and ensure that fewer of them end up in hospital”.
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CommentPatient feedback is essential to the NHS's future
The friends and family test is helping to drive local improvements
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Blogs‘Look beyond the supermarket model for health services’
NHS commissioners should heed the experiences of other parts of the public sector to develop a health and social care model of commissioning