Commissioning – Page 196
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NewsBudget forecast sees Cameron's NHS pledge challenged
Prime minister David Cameron was accused of breaking the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the National Health Service as soaring inflation threatened to undermine the government’s spending plans.
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HSJ KnowledgeNice to see you: inspiring public and patient engagement with NHS services consultations
Taking part in a Department of Health pilot to help drive innovation in public and patient engagement and quality performance improvement, NHS Coventry broke with tradition with a new, interactive approach. Feedback from the consultations were both surprising and ‘overwhelmingly positive’.
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NewsWatch now: KPMG head of health on the challenges facing the NHS
Alastair McLellan interviews Andrew Hine, UK head of health, KPMG, on the issues facing the NHS in 2011.
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NewsMonitor predicts 20 FT contract disputes
Rows over 2010-11 contracts could increase foundation trusts’ risk ratings by the end of this year, Monitor has predicted.
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NewsFunding formula change boosts South
A ministerial decision to give less weight to health inequalities when allocating £85bn of NHS funds has privileged the South over deprived northern areas, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsHowe promises to 'expose' underperforming GPs
GPs will be “monitored, supported and held to account” by consortia as the NHS moves to “expose substandard general practice”, health minister Lord Howe has told HSJ.
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NewsConfess 'longstanding problems' in consortia handovers, PCTs told
Commissioners have been told to produce handover notes for commissioning consortia so they are not left to “discover for themselves afresh” any “longstanding problems” with local services.
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HSJ Local
Tower Hamlets beats surplus target despite acute overspend
FINANCE: NHS Tower Hamlets is forecasting an end of year surplus of £6.97m for 2010-11, despite a projected acute commissioning overspend of £6m.
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HSJ Local
New Worcestershire provider hires chief executive
WORKFORCE: The new community provider organisation in Worcestershire has hired a chief executive from Dudley PCT.
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HSJ KnowledgeSimulation Lab: What if GPs developed a special interest in dermatology?
One in 10 visits to a GP is dermatology related. This simulation tests what would happen if more GPs developed a special interest in dermatology and were able to see and treat patients themselves. Alter the per cent of patients seen by GPs with special interests to see the impact ...
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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CommentCan GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?
In my forthcoming book on the NHS and reform, I have devoted a chapter to trying to answer the question of whether GPs can move from gatekeepers to change agents. Andrew Lansley’s reforms pose the same question along with others – do a sufficient number of them want to make ...
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
A quarter of primary care trusts are racing ahead to hand over commissioning budgets while a third have no clear plans to “let go”.
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NewsDon't simply cut posts to deliver QIPP savings, Easton warns trusts
The Department of Health will be “increasingly discriminating” between trusts that find genuine efficiencies and those that simply cut posts, national director for improvement Jim Easton has warned.
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NewsHealth Bill dissent 'destabilising' for NHS - Alliance chief
Doubt has been cast on the government’s NHS reform drive after Liberal Democrat dissent forced health secretary Andrew Lansley to admit further changes could be made to the plans.
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NewsMPs told of budget topslicing 'risk'
Providers could face financial difficulties if commissioning consortia decide to topslice their budgets to create risk pools, the Commons health committee has heard.
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NewsLabour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
Labour has put forward amendments to the Health Bill to remove Monitor’s planned powers as an enforcer of competition law.
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HSJ Local
Bradford, Leeds and North Yorkshire PCTs remain unclustered
STRUCTURE: Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT, Leeds PCT and North Yorkshire and York PCT are to remain independent, rather than clustering with other PCTs.
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HSJ Local
Calderdale PCT joins cluster and chief exec departs
STRUCTURE: Calderdale PCT has clustered with Kirklees and Wakefield District PCTs, and chief executive Rob Webster is leaving to run a new community provider trust.