All Commissioning articles – Page 207
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NewsRules change on EU treatments
Plans to allow patients to receive health treatments abroad that are not available on the NHS have been defeated, according to a confidential document seen by HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge'Through the lens of commissioning consortia the world seems quite different'
To flip or not to flip, that was the wicked question challenging my overloaded synapses recently. In Cambridgeshire we set off down the GP consortium route over a year ago, delegating responsibility to growing numbers of commissioning consortia.
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NewsReadmission savings plan softened
Commissioners face having to redraw their budgets after changes to emergency readmission policy.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to maximise your marginal gains
Disinvestment in services will become more pressing over the next decade but there are tools to help with difficult decisions, say Ric Fordham and Adam Martin
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to create healthcare without walls
A spirit of cooperation between clinicians has helped a London primary care trust improve productivity and patient experience by moving services into the community. Laura Guest explains how they achieved it
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NewsLocal flu vaccine shortages revealed
The government has admitted some parts of the country were suffering shortages of flu vaccines as it prepared to reveal the latest death toll from the winter outbreak.
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CommentGPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
Giving GPs freedom to innovate while protecting patients will be a difficult balance
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards are given new scrutiny role
Local authorities will be required by law to create health and wellbeing boards, the government has announced.
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Comment'The NHS is every health secretary's trainset'
The NHS, always in danger of becoming every health secretary’s trainset, faces yet another major reorganisation. The idea is that GPs will lead the quality and safety and value for money charge that will be needed over the next five, perhaps 10, years.
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HSJ KnowledgeAcute stay management and PACE
A co-provision approach to post acute re-enablement has reduced lengths of hospital stays in pilot areas, as Katie Donlevy and James Heffron explain
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to put 'nudge' principles to work in the health service
The power of nudge: how applying nudge principles could change healthcare commissioning management
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CommentTim Riley on GP attitudes to commissioning consortia
The reservations about the establishment of commissioning consortia are not uniformly expressed among all GP colleagues.
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HSJ KnowledgeA model for the co-provision of home-based care
A co-provision approach to post acute re-enablement has reduced lengths of hospital stays in pilot areas, as Katie Donlevy and James Heffron explain
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HSJ KnowledgeHow localism can work for the NHS
What are the advantages, opportunities and risks of the localism the government wants for services and how will ‘citizen leaders’ manage their roles? Phil Kenmore looks at the implications
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CommentA survival plan for non-foundation trusts
The government has committed to the foundation trust model as the default structure for providers in the NHS.
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NewsGovernment sets out who will commission public health services
Immunisation, screening and public health for the under fives will in future be commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board, under latest government proposals.
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LeaderNicholson is master of all he surveys after surprise decision
Did you declare yourself unsurprised by the appointment of Sir David Nicholson as the first chief executive of the NHS commissioning board just before Christmas? Then you were either fibbing or Andrew Lansley.
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NewsPrice competition could raise death rates, experts warn
The decision to let NHS hospitals compete with each other on price from next year threatens to harm care and raise death rates, experts warn.
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NewsComputer models could help NHS save £20bn
The NHS could use computer simulations to help find £20bn savings needed by April 2015.
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NewsCommissioning group rapped for rules breach
The NHS competition watchdog has recommended the North West specialised commissioning group is barred from entering into long term “framework agreements” with providers.