All Commissioning articles – Page 241
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HSJ Knowledge
Independent providers: commission in bulk for a better deal
Commissioning mental health services from the private sector could be costly and risky. Then a team in Lancashire stepped in to help
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News
Talk to me: PCTs hone their haggling skills
World class commissioning demands new skills of primary care trusts – not least managing the market to get the highest quality and best value care for patients. Helen Crump finds out how they are coping
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News
World class commissioning league table: PCTs exceed expectations in year one
Primary care trusts have made a solid start on world class commissioning and 27 have led the way with green lights for strategy, board governance and finance.
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News
Triple red rated PCT outlines its transformation plans
The chief executive of one of the poorest performers in this year’s world class commissioning process has promised his primary care trust will be “a different organisation” by next year.
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News
Mark Britnell confirms DH is still mulling over PCT freedoms
The range of perks that will eventually be on offer to the best performing commissioners is still being hammered out by the Department of Health and the Treasury.
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News
Practice based commissioning drive begins in Brent
The first project in a new government funded drive to improve practice based commissioning has been launched in Brent.
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HSJ Knowledge
Personal health budgets: the patient is always right
Will individual health budgets help patients get the best care or leave the NHS struggling with increased costs and new ethical dilemmas? Kaye McIntosh reports
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on the grim reality of NHS finance
'Look out, not up' is a phrase currently being muttered in the corridors of power at the Department of Health.
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News
Cancer patients missing out on best treatment because of cost
Cancer patients are missing out on high-tech radiotherapy because the NHS is struggling to invest in staff and technology.Intensity modulated radiotherapy, which has been used in Europe and the US for a decade, is used to treat only 7 per cent of eligible NHS patients, according to research by the ...
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News
Elite 'inner cabinet' to lead acute commissioning in London
Six London primary care trust chief executives are to be propelled into an ‘inner cabinet’ to lead acute commissioning in the capital.
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News
NHS top-up rules set for rewrite as fear of litigation mounts
The government is expected to rewrite its guidance on implementing cancer czar Mike Richards' recommendations for top-up payments.Trusts have been observing the draft guidance since it was published in November.
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News
Dementia strategy: high hopes but who will pay?
The dementia strategy promises dedicated memory services in every town, but with only £150m over two years can primary care trusts afford the sophisticated teams this requires? Charlotte Santry reports
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News
PCTs 'don't listen to charities'
Commissioners are failing to involve local voluntary organisations in decisions about services, a survey suggests.
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News
Major patient choice study begins
The Department of Health is seeking hard evidence that choice improves the quality of services.
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News
Decompression sickness fraudsters go to jail
Two men have been jailed for their parts in a £250,000 scam to defraud the NHS by billing for bogus decompression sickness treatments.
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News
NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits
Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.
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News
Double weak PCT gets new chairman
Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.
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News
NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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Comment
Sophia Christie on healthcare's false economy
Just in case we thought Keynesian economics might protect us from the credit crunch, Nick Timmins of the Financial Times used his keynote presentation at an anniversary event for world class commissioning to demonstrate that we will be highly unlikely to enjoy growth reaching 3 per cent by 2011.
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News
Dementia strategy will pose workforce challenges
Managers have welcomed long awaited government plans to transform dementia services but want more details on how they will be staffed and assessed.