Commissioning – Page 111
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NewsNHS England to offer local commissioning 'step-change'
Simon Stevens is set to invite clinical commissioning groups and local authorities to experiment with a further “step change” in joint commissioning arrangements.
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NewsNHS England struggling to balance £97bn budget
NHS England this week confirmed it had still not managed to set plans to balance its £97bn budget for 2014-15, in what experts saw as a sign that the NHS overall could face financial crisis sooner than expected.
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NewsNHS England and UCLH in contracting dispute
NHS England is in dispute with University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust over £75m of the trust’s specialised services contract for this financial year.
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NewsHunt: CCGs must become 'accountable care organisations'
Clinical commissioning groups must become more accountable as they expand their role in delivering healthcare, the health secretary has said
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CommentDon't let the glut of pilot projects distract from patient safety
New models of care are too fragmented
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HSJ KnowledgeHeatherwood-Frimley Park shows the way through merger process
Pass the test of the law
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NewsCCGs 'should have more control over winter pressures funding'
A clinical commissioning group leader has called for commissioners to have more control over “winter pressures” funding, rather than having to pass it directly to providers.
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NewsExclusive: Monitor launches probe of community service contracts
Monitor has launched an investigation into clinical commissioning groups’ intentions for the £10bn community services sector, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAround 180 CCGs bid for primary care co-commissioning
Bids to co-commission primary care have been submitted by around 180 of England’s 211 clinical commissioning groups, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England: CCG interest in controlling CSUs 'evaporates'
The appetite of clinical commissioning groups to take control of their support service suppliers has dwindled, NHS England has claimed today.
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NewsStevens putting 'rigour' into care fund approval process, minister says
Simon Stevens is ‘insisting on real rigour in the process’ of approving better care fund plans, care services minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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HSJ KnowledgeWhere now for the NHS's best leadership talent?
How one programme has inspired and retained new NHS leaders
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CommentLocal providers can step up to trump national players
We can offer more attractive solutions
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NewsNHS restructure was a 'step backwards' for IVF services, watchdog says
The coalition’s radical reshaping of the health service has been a “step backwards” for the commissioning of fertility services in the NHS, the chair of the national fertility watchdog has said.
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HSJ LocalSheffield aims for single health and care budget
FINANCE: Sheffield’s clinical commissioning group and city council have unveiled plans to pool £237m more than required by national rules in 2015-16, with the “ultimate aim” of establishing a single budget for health and social care.
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NewsSingle online tool launched to aid mental health data models
Efforts to develop more sophisticated approaches to commissioning, funding and comparing mental health services could be helped by a new online database.
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NewsCCG’s break with QOF set to test integration and co-commissioning support
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework will test whether the approach could help drive integration and support co-commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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LeaderNHS England content to let CCGs break free
The organisation is willing to risk BMA disapproval