All Commissioning articles – Page 174
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping a health and local government service integration model
Could one trust’s health and local government service integration be a model for the rest of the country to follow? Dr Chris Clayton reports on the successful pilot at Blackburn with Darwen PCT.
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Comment'Start planning the execution, instead of dreaming about the ambition'
In 2012, the Year of the Dragon, will commissioning plans be all smoke and no fire? Paul Zollinger-Read says it is vital that they aren’t.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
Social enterprises are starting to find that the odds are not in their favour in a cut-throat market, which could make for a bleak picture in a decade’s time, says Noel Plumridge.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy physical health checks for mental health patients are vital to their wellbeing
Improving the provision of physical health checks for people with severe mental illness provides an opportunity to make a major difference to the health and wellbeing of this vulnerable group, write Drs Kallol Sain and Sweta Patil.
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HSJ KnowledgeCan CCGs learn to integrate mental health services from a Californian healthcare model?
Emerging clinical commissioning groups could learn a lot from the way mental health services are being incorporated into an overall model of healthcare by independent practice associations in California, say Beacon Health Strategies colleagues Dr Emma Stanton and Brian Wheelan.
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NewsExclusive: only half of CCGs will be ready - GP commissioning champion
Only half of clinical commissioning groups will be given full permission to take on budgets by April 2013 – creating a two-tier NHS – one of the most senior leaders of the movement has predicted.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a transformation programme helps improve community services' efficiency
A strategic transformation programme has helped a community provider reform and redesign its services and improve efficiency as a central part of its bid for foundation trust status. Jo Manley and Mark Eaton outline the programme.
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HSJ Local
'Common principles' for commissioning support offer emerging in Birmingham and Solihull
FINANCE: “Common principles” on the commissioning services likely to “shape the offer” to clinical commissioning groups in the NHS Birmingham and Solihull cluster are emerging, papers say.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy AQP can drive real benefits in primary and secondary care
Any Qualified Provider has proved to be a controversial policy with those working in the health service, but, argue Dr Walter Serino, Professor Sam Lingam and Richard Banyard, AQP has potential to be far more friend than foe.
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NewsExclusive: DH leak reveals uncertainty over 11,000 PCT jobs
A leaked Department of Health document shows for the first time where commissioning staff could move to in the restructured NHS – however it also reveals confusion over the fate of thousands of jobs.
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NewsPCT and SHA staff set to learn job decisions
The fate of tens of thousands of NHS staff may become clearer during the next few weeks, with large redundancy bills still a risk for some organisations, HSJ has been told.
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Comment'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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NewsClinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'
Clinical commissioning is behind schedule in many areas with the transfer of staff from primary care trusts stalled and just over a year remaining before the NHS’s structural overhaul is supposed to be complete.
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Comment'Patients and organisations still need an information revolution'
Reorganisations might be familiar at Richmond House, but revolutions are rarer. With the information strategy officially paused, has the promised NHS spring turned to winter, asks Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: the rallying cry for 2012
2012 is the year of the contract. Go back to your offices and prepare for contracting.
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NewsSexual health services should offer alcohol advice
GP commissioners and councils should in future ensure sexual health services include interventions targeted at cutting alcohol consumption among young people, according to a report published today.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe critical need to evaluate and improve back office functions
The health reforms have ushered in a difficult period for health service providers to deliver improving services, but just as challenging is the crucial reorganisation required to improve the back office functions that support frontline services. Claire MacConnell explains.
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NewsField's Future Forum report to call for GPs to move into 'bigger organisations'
NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has called for GPs to work in “federations or in bigger organisations”, and to focus on integration of services, ahead of the publication of the review group’s advice to the government.