All Commissioning articles – Page 166
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CommentReaders' letters – 19 April 2012
Is the support service market a closed shop? And help is at hand for tinnitus sufferers
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CommentNoel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
The commissioning purse strings remain tightly tied.
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NewsThree top NHS regional chiefs decline commissioning board roles
Three of the NHS’s most experienced and respected leaders have decided against joining the NHS Commissioning Board.
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NewsNHS must 'up its game' on homeless people's mental health
Mental health leaders must “up their game” in tackling mental health problems among the homeless, according to a new report.
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NewsCCGs will be subject to Agenda for Change
Clinical commissioning groups will be made subject to the Agenda for Change pay agreement to avoid spiralling redundancy costs, it has been confirmed.
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NewsPay scheme will force leaders to 'justify salaries'
Leaders will have to work harder to “justify their salaries” in the event of a care scandal, under pay plans awaiting final sign-off, HSJ has been told.
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LeaderCommissioning board mandate must set out a clear vision
CCGs should be wary about what comes next.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow an NHS-pharma partnership is improving prevention
By partnering with a pharmaceutical firm an East Midlands trust became the first in the region to achieve a major target for VTE risk assessment. Scott Savage explains.
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CommentDon Redding: give the public remote control
To create a mandate for the commissioning board that truly belongs to the public, the government should take a cue from the BBC.
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NewsAcute trusts absent from local wellbeing boards
Emerging health and wellbeing boards believe they will successfully shape local health policies and drive service integration. But many boards still lack input from NHS providers, a survey shared exclusively with HSJ reveals.
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NewsExclusive: Poor patients face shorter GP opening hours
The number of GP practices paid to offer longer opening hours dropped sharply last year, an HSJ investigation has revealed. The fall was particularly steep in poorer areas.
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NewsNHS Commissioning Board highlights major HR risk
The NHS Commissioning Board has higlighted the “inherently high risk” of recruiting “nearly 4,000 people… over a short period”, and lack of clarity around its functions and design.
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NewsCCGs to get 'development agreement' and ‘rectification plan’ on authorisation
All clinical commissioning groups will sign a “development agreement” with the NHS Commissioning Board, and many also be given a “rectification plan”, before they take over budgets next year.
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HSJ Local
King's has 'fewer' quality concerns than other south London providers
PERFORMANCE: A report about King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust submitted to the board of NHS South East London said “in general there are fewer concerns on the quality of care than with other providers”.
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HSJ Local
'All staff' in Berkshire cluster to transfer to new bodies
WORKFORCE: All primary care trust staff not moving to the NHS Commissioning Board, clinical commissioning groups or local government will go to the commissioning support service, one group of PCT clusters has said.
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HSJ Local
First public board for East CCG
STRUCTURE: A clinical commissioning group in the East Midlands is to hold its first public board meeting next week.
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NewsPaul Zollinger-Read to join Bupa
Paul Zollinger-Read, a key figure in the world of commissioning, will leave the NHS after more than 20 years to join Bupa as its group medical director, it was announced today.
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NewsCompetition panel to advise on CCG conflict of interest regulation
Providers are likely to have to complain to the NHS Commissioning Board before approaching Monitor with concerns about clinical commissioning groups’ conflicts of interest, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Five Arden CCGs merge into three
STRUCTURE: Coventry and Warwickshire’s five clinical commissioning groups have been merged into three after a strategic health authority risk assessment flagged concerns over the proposed configuration.
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HSJ Local
Wiltshire cluster services to merge with Berkshire/Gloucestershire CSS
STRUCTURE: Talks are already under way to further expand the NHS commissioning support service already stretching from Berkshire to Gloucestershire.