All Commissioning articles – Page 252
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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DH aims to slash commissioning support delay
The Department of Health plans to slash the time it takes primary care trusts to engage commissioning support by cutting its own commercial directorate out of the process.
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Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has played down comments that appeared to criticise the foundation trusts' regulator Monitor.
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Johnson calls for 'champions of quality'
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.
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Polyclinics, polycautious
The King's Fund has scrutinised the dream of polyclinics and urges planners to be cautious. By Candace Imison and colleagues
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Mark Britnell announces changes to commissioning framework
The time it takes to use the framework for procuring external support for commissioners is to be slashed under plans unveiled at the NHS Confederation conference.
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Provider arms should scrutinise unprofitable services
Primary care trust provider arms must be prepared to question the future of unprofitable services in order to succeed as standalone organisations, the NHS Confederation conference has heard.
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Embrace commissioning, Britnell urges Confed delegates
Lord Darzi's next stage review will include exciting opportunities for commissioning staff, including freedoms based on those for foundation trusts, Department of Health director general of commissioning and system management Mark Britnell has told the NHS Confederation conference.
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NHS Comparators wins national award
The NHS Comparators website scooped the Best use of Information award at the annual ASSIST awards.
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NHS Confederation calls for debate on top ups
The NHS Confederation has called for a debate on whether patients who use private treatment should be excluded from NHS care.
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Nick Clegg pledges GP rewards in poorer areas
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said he wants to 'slant the playing field in favour of GPs working in the most deprived areas'.
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Confed warns of globalisation risks
The long-term sustainability of the NHS faces multiple threats from globalisation, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Labour's NHS vision let down by reforms
New Labour's reforms have failed to deliver its vision to transform the health service, a major report has concluded.The joint Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission report finds the overhaul of the health service under the 2000 NHS Plan has, in many areas, fallen well short of expectations.
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PCTs under fire on new GP scheme
Independent providers have slammed primary care trusts' attempts to procure new services under a flagship Department of Health scheme. They say the equitable access to primary medical care scheme is 'appallingly poorly managed'.
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World class commissioning: quality assurance
How can PCTs be sure they are on the right path to world class commissioning? We look at the quality assurance system developed by the Department of Health to help clinicians and managers achieve their targets
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Making practice based commissioning perfect
Practice clinicians are being seen as the linchpins of future local procurement of quality care services, as Andy Cowper explains
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Health inequalities in primary care
Benchmarking can help PCTs tackle deprivation and achieve performance and funding practices that compare with the best, says Nigel Crew
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Supporting world class commissioning
Primary care trusts will be able to call on a rich network to help find their way with world class commissioning
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World class commissioning: joint working
Joint working between PCTs and local authorities means a two-pronged attack on health inequality
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Engaging the public in commissioning
Engaging patients and the public has long been policy mantra. Now legislation is making it a reality. Andy Cowper explains