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NewsBudget cuts likely to spell job losses for commissioning support staff
There is a growing expectation that commissioning support staff face further rounds of redundancies driven by cuts to the NHS management budget, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: Four options proposed for CSU autonomy
Commissioning support units will be given a choice of four options for becoming independent, under proposals under consideration by senior leaders at NHS England.
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NewsWatch live: balancing clinical efficacy of treatments with quality of life
Join this free HSJ webinar on 27 November
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NewsRevealed: the £2bn switch back to payment by results
More than £2bn of acute service funding has moved away from locally agreed deals and onto the national payment by results tariff this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsCCGs told to work together as 'too small' for major change
Most clinical commissioning groups will be expected to come together to draw up their critical long term service change strategies across larger patches approved by NHS England, under guidance seen by HSJ.
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CommentReaders’ letters – 15 November 2013
Readers say getting it right for diabetes can act as an exemplar, while scrapping the innovation fund is a ‘devasting blow’
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HSJ KnowledgeHow Bath developed new thinking on coping with winter pressures
A new approach to seasonal care
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NewsRefreshed mandate 'less like political shopping list'
The government has published its refreshed mandate for NHS England, apparently withdrawing or watering down a number of commitments following a struggle between the two organisations.
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NewsNHS leaders 'need more commercial nous'
The Department of Health’s procurement strategy has been described as a “missed opportunity” to bring about better partnerships between NHS bodies and private or voluntary sectors, in a report shared with HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeOpen market: Let patients in on commissioning
Highlighting the benefits of collaboration
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CommentCompetition law can give the NHS the edge
Competition is not a distraction from better patient care
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HSJ Local
Norwich CCG reviews voluntary contracts
FINANCE: Norwich Clinical Commissioning Group is reviewing all its voluntary contracts.
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NewsAnalysed: drug pricing scheme promises better access to new medicines
Commissioners have been told they will gain easier access to the latest drugs approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence after the Department of Health reached a deal on pricing with the pharmaceutical industry.
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HSJ Local
Vale of York predicts small surplus despite 'significant risks'
Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group is planning to record a small surplus for 2013-14, but has warned of “significant risks and challenges”.
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NewsBMA backs GP networks but rejects seven-day working 'mantra'
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee has called for practices to “form network arrangements” and share staff to provide extended opening services and a “stronger community-based provision of care”.
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NewsThree CSUs consider merger
Three commissioning support units have announced they have are considering a merger or a formal partnership arrangement.
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CommentA healthy level of competition and choice
Mental health has quietly and effectively been using competition
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HSJ KnowledgeA strategic approach to promote research among CCGs
How to build and sustain a culture of research
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NewsBaumann: deprived areas will not lose out under new formula
The most deprived areas will not lose out under the new formula for allocating funds to clinical commissioning groups, NHS England’s finance director has told MPs.
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NewsCCGs and NHS England report growing budget shortfalls
The number of clinical commissioning groups expecting to record a deficit at the end of this year has nearly tripled to 24, while NHS England is also expecting to overspend its own budgets by £93m.