All Commissioning articles – Page 263
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SHAs slash top-up payments for complex care
Strategic health authorities have slashed the number of hospital providers eligible for 'top-up' payments for specialist treatment after coming under pressure from the Department of Health.
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Practice-based commissioning: poor data may scupper efforts
The future of practice-based commissioning is in jeopardy unless the quality of data available to commissioners improves, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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Bids open for campus reprovision
The second stage of bidding for capital under the the campus reprovision programme 2008-09 has now opened, according to a letter from the Department of Health to primary care trust commissioners.
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Sexual health services warning
The move to local rather than centrally commissioned sexual health services could result in a dangerous postcode lottery, the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV has warned in its annual report.The group argues there is a 'public health imperative' to ensure full coverage for sexual health and contraceptive ...
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HSJ Knowledge
A guide to world class commissioning
The Department of Health's 'world class' masterplan aims to create a commissioning system other nations will envy. Daloni Carlisle examines the progress of an initiative that has re-energised PCTs and created huge expectations
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HSJ Knowledge
Race equality monitoring and diabetes
The Healthcare Commission has found few trusts obey data law on ethnicity. Caroline White looks at the implications for diabetes
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Clinical leadership narrowly focused - NHS Alliance report
Focusing the clinical leadership agenda on GPs is not enough, a report by the NHS Alliance says.Clinical Leadership for NHS Commissioning looks at how clinicians from a wide range of professions can help redesign and deliver healthcare services and contribute to the commissioning process.
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Practice-based commissioning: PCTs blamed for sticking to old practices
Practice-based commissioning is being undermined by primary care trusts allocating funds to practices on a historical, rather than needs, basis, the Audit Commission has concluded.
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Comment
Sophie Christie on the holy grail of NHS policy
NHS policy seems populated by some remarkably persistent ideas that pop up every decade or so
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Comment
Your Humble Servant: world class commissioning
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Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson
Patients could soon be handed responsibility for commissioning their own care through individual budgets, the NHS chief executive has revealed.
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Millions have undiagnosed lung disease
Almost 3 million people in the UK have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - more than three times those diagnosed, the British Lung Foundation has estimated.
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Mental health: PCTs to target potential offenders
Commissioners will work closely with neighbourhood police to keep the mentally ill out of jail, the government's director of prison health has announced.
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HSJ Knowledge
Practice-Based Commissioning briefing
Practice-based commissioning was introduced as a policy by the Labour government in 2004. It aims to allow GPs to commission directly on behalf of their patients and to give them more control over their budget.
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HSJ Knowledge
Helen Bevan on world class commissioning
To make world class commissioning a reality, we must challenge our existing mindsets
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on clarifying the NHS insurer-provider divide
Separating the NHS’s purchaser and provider functions more clearly would help everyone who works in the service focus unambiguously on their purpose
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PCTs will not take on escort and bedwatch roles from Prison Service until April
Primary care trusts will commission prison healthcare security services a year later than planned because of behind-the-scenes wrangling over costs.
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ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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North West signs contract with private mental health provider
North West commissioners have contracted an independent provider to fill a gap in secure mental health services for men in Cheshireand Merseyside.
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HSJ Knowledge
Joint working: health and local government
All eyes are on Chris Bull as he becomes the first person in the country to head up both a council and PCT. Jennifer Taylor reports on a revolution in joined-up working in Herefordshire