All Commissioning articles – Page 243
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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
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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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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Double weak PCT gets new chairman
Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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Huge bill looms for patient choice information
The health service faces a bill of millions for reminding patients of their legal right to choose their own secondary care provider under the terms of the NHS constitution.
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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.
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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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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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HSJ Knowledge
Improving NHS dementia care
With the long awaited dementia strategy finally here, the race is on to overcome the stigma surrounding the condition and spread the word about available treatments. Emma Dent reports
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News
Edwina Hart steals march on NICE with kidney drug decision
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has angered some local health boards - and stepped further into NHS decision making - by ordering managers to pay for four unapproved drugs for advanced kidney cancer.
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Leader
Stop at red: study shows PCTs have a long road ahead of them
Around 18 months after the Department of Health began outlining its vision for world class commissioning, we have the first tangible measure of how well primary care trusts have prepared.
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PCT strategy plans expose the distance to world class
Concerns have been raised over two out of three primary care trusts' strategic plans, the first scores for world class commissioning reveal.
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PCTs failing to involve public in drug decisions
Primary care trusts are failing to effectively involve the public in decisions over drugs not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, according to a Picker Institute review.
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Comment
Lisa Rodrigues on NHS kindness
At the end of 2008, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson was reported as saying that NHS staff have lost their compassion and that his organisation wants to help bring it back. I could not agree less.
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Comment
Yi Mien Koh on the world class commissioning story
In December, the board at Hillingdon primary care trust completed its world class commissioning assurance panel day.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS discharge planning: lost for words
GPs need timely discharge summaries to provide patients with effective follow-up care, yet they often have to wait weeks for this information. How can medics make sure one hand knows what the other is doing, asks Daloni Carlisle
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PCTs fail to back up maternity care drive
Flagship government commitments to improve safety and choice of maternity services may be compromised in large parts of England.
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Managers call for GP commissioning reforms
NHS managers are showing signs of breaking with government policy by calling for a complete overhaul of practice based commissioning.
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Low carbon NHS commissioning is the green ideal
Home working, green travel and low carbon commissioning are set to feature in the NHS's first ever carbon reduction strategy.