All Commissioning articles – Page 191
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HSJ KnowledgeRestoring order: how a commissioning senate can lead a smooth transition to consortia
The transition away from PCTs ahead of 2013 is already proving to be one of turmoil. NHS Cambridgeshire have elected a group of eight GPs to form a commissioning senate that will help smooth the way as consortia emerge.
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NewsPerformance pay for GPs risks patient trust in doctors, says BMA
The government risks damaging the relationship between doctors and patients if it pushes ahead with “unethical” performance-related pay, a union has warned.
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NewsLansley ready to modify reforms
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he was ready to accept “substantial and significant” changes to his NHS reform plans.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards 'lack real influence'
“Weak” health and wellbeing boards could result in the NHS Commissioning Board playing the leading role in driving the performance of GP consortia, the King’s Fund has warned in a report.
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NewsClusters to be given single operating model under DH plans
The Department of Health is set to impose a single operating model on primary care trust clusters in order to maintain a grip on NHS finances, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
North East Lincs set to hand over children's commissioning
STRUCTURE: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus was due to hand over its children’s commissioning responsibilities to North East Lincolnshire Council this month.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe benefits better communication and negotiation skills could bring to the NHS
Forget the current proposals made by the government to change the organisation of the NHS, it’s an improvement in communication and negotiation skills that are needed in the service, according to Huthwaite International business director Alison Morris.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe need for clarity in evidence based commissioning
Simply producing evidence to aid commissioning is not enough. Emmanouil Gkeredakis and Claudia Roginski report on efforts to understand how it is used.
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Comment'Complex consortia issues will require a new style of leadership'
Followership: what sort of a word is that? Whatever it is, it has been troubling me for some time.
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NewsExclusive: Commissioning Board will be told to save cancer lives
A commitment to improve cancer outcomes in order to “save 5,000 lives a year” is set to be included in the government’s first “mandate” for the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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NewsBMA: commissioning consortia are excluding salaried GPs
Sessional GPs are being blocked from involvement in emerging commissioning consortia, the British Medical Association GPs committee has warned.
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NewsOnline seminar: driving standards up and costs down
With the advent of commissioning consortia and competition in the NHS, how will standards be improved and costs be driven down? Watch HSJ’s free online seminar now to find out
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NewsConsortia authorisation 'window' risks quality
The short “window” to authorise commissioning consortia could undermine quality, according to one of those working for the Department of Health on the reorganisation.
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NewsProviders warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’
NHS commissioners are building a “war chest” to fund service reorganisation and deal with financial emergencies. But providers are warning the move risks “unnecessary cuts to jobs and services”.
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NewsPrivate provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
Private healthcare chief executives have remained confident their firms will profit from NHS reform even as political controversy has stalled the Health Bill, a survey shows.
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CommentAmong the structural turmoil, maintaining performance is a matter of life and death
While all eyes are currently on the political rollercoaster that is the Health Bill, less seductive but more vital is maintaining the performance of a service that has life and death consequences for individuals every day.
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News
No evidence for money saving potential of community care pathways
A lack of reliable data on the cost of outpatient and community services is hampering commissioners’ attempts to make efficiency savings by moving care out of the acute sector.
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HSJ KnowledgeQIPP and care plans for long term conditions: revisited
Last year a study into the impact of care planning on patients with long term conditions showed the early benefits of individual care plans. Now, follow up data has strengthened those results - and could transform the patient-clinician relationship. Shahid Ail, Julia Coletta and Richard Pope report.
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HSJ Local
Blackburn with Darwen surplus was ahead of plan in January
FINANCE: The care trust plus was reporting a 2010-11 in-year surplus of £1.195m against its NHS commissioning and provider services budgets at the end of January, £23,000 above its planned surplus to that point of the year.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow pathway mapping software is improving evidence based care delivery
Few people would question the importance of implementing evidence based practice in healthcare, but making improvements in professional practice is not a simple matter. The Map of Medicine tool could change all this, argue Colin Cohen and Bal Duper.