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CommentJudith Smith: commissioning needs to be reborn, not killed off
Only radical new approaches will take commissioning forward after the election
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NewsNearly half of GP practices bust commissioning budget
The value of the healthcare resources used by practice based commissioners significantly varies from the indicative budgets they have been set.
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NewsSelf care provider to introduce 'payment by results' pilot
A leading provider of self care programmes is seeking to prove to primary care trusts that it can save them significant sums on managing long term conditions by piloting a “payment by results” scheme.
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NewsNext government must quash preferred provider policy
The next government must scrap any notion of a “preferred provider” policy and ensure a level playing field for all potential service suppliers, according to a report from the NHS Confederation’s NHS Partners Network.
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NewsCardiac surgery reconfiguration plans get charity backing
A national children’s heart charity has expressed its support for a report calling for the reorganisation of congenital cardiac surgical services in England.
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NewsCall to merge children's cardiac units
Several children’s heart surgery units should stop performing operations and merge with bigger, specialist centres to improve patient safety and care, according to a new report.
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how green are your care pathways?
The way forward in carbon reduction is through creative commissioning for pathways of care. In the final part in our series on sustainability, Jennifer Taylor looks at how the new approach is gaining momentum
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CommentAlan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay
While politicians are fighting on the campaign trail they will not reveal how they intend to drive up productivity. But once reality is restored the pain will begin
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NewsClusters show potential to halve number of PCTs
New commissioning “clusters” could foretell a reduction in the number of primary care trust of up to 50 per cent, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNHS procurement probe was halted by last minute DH phone call
An eleventh hour phone call from the Department of Health stopped the cooperation and competition panel’s investigations into a primary care trust’s procurement arrangements.
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NewsPCTs depend on commissioning support
The majority of primary care trust managers believe they cannot achieve top scores for their commissioning without outside help, according to research by the King’s Fund.
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NewsCommissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions
Improving commissioning for long term conditions is vital to the health service’s survival, NHS Alliance chief executive Michael Sobanja has warned.
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NewsHospitals warned to dispose of waste properly
An investigation has been launched after tonnes of hospital waste was dumped at an old airfield in Suffolk, the Environment Agency said.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS sustainability: moving care into the community
More care in community settings is a must for a sustainable NHS as well as a healthier environment, says Jennifer Taylor
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CommentNoel Plumridge on the NHS budget
Here’s a summary of the financial plan for the English NHS.
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NewsPCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
Primary care trusts in the East of England are planning on giving GP commissioners hard budgets next year, regardless of which party wins the election.
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NewsTories warned on GP commissioning
A future Conservative government will need “the wisdom of Solomon” if it is to promote GP commissioning while also tackling poor primary care, the new chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsGP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas
GP practices in the richest areas will be granted a 1.2 per cent increase in their target commissioning budgets this financial year, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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CommentNorman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies
There will be no money - and no rationale - for propping up failing NHS services, the former health minister warns
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NewsNHS innovation: can the health service drive new ideas?
The NHS has grown used to a pattern of crisis followed by review followed by reform - yet many fundamentals remain little changed. Will the past keep shaping the NHS of the future or will the service explore different paths, asks Nigel Edwards