All Commissioning articles – Page 222
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NewsOver half of PCTs lose executive directors
More than half of primary care trusts are missing permanent executive directors, an HSJ investigation has found.
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LeaderWho will help GPs if managers are laid off?
A third of senior health service managers think they will no longer work for the NHS in two years.
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HSJ KnowledgeIndividual funding requests: from counting beans to patients
NHS West Kent has taken a fresh approach to funding requests that places greater emphasis on involving patients
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NewsPCTs, councils and firms 'will commission for GPs'
GP consortia will be able to pick between primary care trusts, local authorities and independent organisations for commissioning support, Andrew Lansley has said.
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NewsChair steps down at PCT with £12.8m overspend
A primary care trust under pressure to save £20m this year has lost two members of its board.
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NewsHard budgets for GPs – profit or productivity?
The coalition government’s plans for revamping practice based commissioning with ‘real’ budgets are dominated by concerns over ensuring the policy will incentivise service improvement and not simply produce wealthier GPs. Steve Ford reports
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NewsPCTs falling out of love with management consultants
More than half of primary care trusts feel they “rarely” or “only sometimes” get an acceptable return on their investment in commissioning advice from management consultants.
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CommentPredictions on the new government's next moves
The future of the largest departmental budget and the second biggest area of government spending after welfare initially boiled down to just 30 words in the government’s initial coalition agreement.
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NewsPCTs to lose responsibility for GPs
Primary care trusts will have their responsibilities radically stripped back under plans being developed by health secretary Andrew Lansley.
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HSJ KnowledgeConnected Care model seeks to ease local service integration
Connected Care aims to allay the fears of commissioners about integrating local services, says Helen Mooney
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HSJ KnowledgeNeurological care
The Neurological Alliance is chairing the main day of the HSJ’s conference, Delivering Patient Centred Neurological Services, in London this week.Clare Moonan and Katie Smith, chief executives of the Neurological Alliance, say that the Alliance has been a key partner in shaping this unique event which has a central theme ...
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HSJ KnowledgeResidential care commissioning leaves room for improvement
Despite their complex needs it has been revealed that many care home residents lack access to specialist services, reports Stuart Shepherd
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HSJ KnowledgeCapturing the costs of community services
Evidence is essential to designing community services that truly transform care delivery rather than simply shift vulnerable budgets, warns Noel Plumridge
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NewsNHS service change plans will face stricter controls
Plans for major NHS service change will in future have to meet stricter standards, including the approval of GP commissioners, under rules to be announced next month.
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CommentMichael White on coalition compromises
When is the glass half full and when is it half empty? It’s all a matter of temperament, in my experience. The 400-point Lib-Con coalition agreement seems to have been a relatively painless negotiation as far as the 30 health (plus four on public health) points are concerned. Should we ...
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NewsLong term condition services inefficient due to poor design
Many primary and community care managers are designing ineffective and inefficient services for people with long term conditions, a senior Department of Health adviser has said.
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NewsGovernment outlines 30 pledges on future of NHS
The government’s detailed coalition agreement Our Programme for Government, together with a further document sent to strategic health authorities this week, set out 30 pledges on the NHS and a further four on public health.
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NewsThousands of jobs at risk as strategic health authorities face axe
Strategic health authorities will be abolished by 2012, throwing the job security of over 3,000 staff in doubt.
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NewsSuicide details hard for mental health commissioners to obtain
Mental health commissioners are struggling to extract data on suicide prevalence from coroners, HSJ has been told.