All Commissioning articles – Page 149
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HSJ Local
Preferred provider named for new urgent care centre
West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group has named Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services as preferred provider to run an urgent care centre, scheduled to open at Loughborough Hospital in April 2013.
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NewsHakin: bear with managers 'trying to do two jobs'
The national lead for commissioning development has urged clinical commissioning group leaders to bear with managers while they try “to do two jobs” during the rest of the transition to the new system.
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NewsCommissioning board struggles to improve diversity
The NHS Commissioning Board has been told to consider diversity as important as experience when determining who gets management jobs. This comes amid new evidence of its failure to recruit staff from diverse backgrounds.
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CCGs told to set aside more than £2bn of budgets
Clinical commissioning groups are being told to set aside more than £2bn of their budgets in their first year of operation.
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CommentCCG managers must make sense of evidence
Getting to grips with evidence is a skill that will take time to develop
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News'Prime contractors' could run pathways for decade
Commissioners could be freed to award work to a “prime contractor” over five to 10 years from 2014-15, the Department of Health has indicated.
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainable GP leadership for commissioning
A more thoughtful and serious approach to medical leadership is needed in the new era
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CCGs can build leadership capacity
Why the historic top-down leadership model does not suit the reformed NHS
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CommentThe NHS mandate: liberation or ligature?
The freedom promised sounds good but how much is really on offer?
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HSJ Local
Integrated CCG sidesteps government's councillor ban
North East Lincolnshire CCG has developed a novel governance structure including representation from councillors, so it can take on an adult social care budget.
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NewsMinister seeks to defend lack of GPs in CCG lead role
Health minister Lord Howe has attempted to defend the health reforms against HSJ’s finding that fewer than a quarter of clinical commissioning groups will have a GP as their accountable officer.
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NewsCCGs reconsider staffing after running-cost funds reviewed
The NHS Commissioning Board has recalculated clinical commissioning groups’ allowances for running costs, prompting claims some may have to consider sacking staff they have just employed.
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HSJ KnowledgePayment by results can enhance mental health services
The tariff system can help drive psychiatry forward
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NewsMandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
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HSJ Local
'Agreed resignations' to cost Birmingham and Black Country clusters £11m
WORKFORCE: The Black Country and Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust clusters have announced they will spend £11m on voluntary redundancies.
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NewsFormal assembly for commissioners will avoid 'usual suspects'
A formal national group for commissioning leaders launched today will help prevent NHS policy being developed only by the “usual suspects”, officials have said.
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NewsMandate requires board to guarantee CCG autonomy
Clinical commissioning groups have received a strengthened commitment from ministers to ensure their autonomy, and new powers to rate the performance of the NHS Commissioning Board.The board will be held to account on whether it achieves “the best health outcomes for patients by strengthening the local autonomy of CCGs”. The ...
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NewsMandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
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LeaderHunt loosens the reins of power
Hunt considers the mandate a test of the government’s commitment to loosening the reins
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NewsDH earmarks £2bn for commissioning system running cost
The government has set the limit for the NHS commissioning system’s running costs at £2bn for 2013-14, including £676m for the NHS Commissioning Board itself.