Commissioning – Page 259
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BUPA wins first deal to support commissioners
Hillingdon primary care trust has signed a three-year deal with BUPA to help it commission services.
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'Pay for performance' could be next, says NHS medical director
The NHS medical director has warned managers of the national clinical audit programme that they 'must deliver' or they could lose their contract.
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Richard Craven on extending out-of-hours services
Developing innovative clinics and treatment centres will only improve patients' access to care if we also provide clear guidance on how to use these services appropriately
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Richard Craven on extending out-of-hours services
Developing innovative clinics and treatment centres will only improve patients' access to care if we also provide clear guidance on how to use these services appropriately
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HSJ Knowledge
Value for many - improving learning difficulties services
A consultation on learning difficulties services seeks to help most service users to live in the community, while increasing monitoring and support. Mark Gould reports
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Under-doctored areas told to share extra resources
The 38 primary care trusts being given government money to tackle long-standing GP shortages will be expected to share the extra resources with their neighbours.
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Prevention is better than cure, but by how much?
Finding the best way to measure the cost-effectiveness and health impact of preventive interventions could help secure more investment, write Julian Le Grand and Robert Sherriff
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Community hospitals grab local care lifeline
Two years after Our Health, Our Care, Our Say promised to shift care away from the acute sector, community hospitals are redefining how they provide services. Alison Moore looks at the emerging models and asks what has held up progress
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Personal healthcare budgets - a real possibility?
Hilary Blackwell asks whether putting people in charge of their own healthcare budgets could really work
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Patients denied admission as PCTs argue over who will pay
Patients deemed to be a threat to themselves or others are being denied hospital beds while commissioners squabble over money.
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HSJ Knowledge
Innovative Commissioning Award
Category: Innovative commissioningWinner: Older people’s home treatment teamContact: Simon Sullivan, tel 07786 707331E-mail: simon.sullivan@wolvespct.nhs.ukThe older people's home treatment service based at Penn Hospital in Wolverhampton is a unique and innovative service providing specialist integrated mental health assessment, treatment and support for older adults with complex mental health needs.Mental health nurse ...
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Public involvement - use strategy to buck the trends
Commissioners, stakeholders and public are tackling health spend issues together within one primary care trust's strategic approach
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Emergency care - steady progress, urgent need
To help simplify highly complex emergency care processes, one health and social care community has signed up to a whole-system change programme. By Daloni Carlisle
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At the heart of change - reducing coronary heart disease
ISIP is helping to pull together existing work on prevention and treatment to tackle Hull's high mortality rates, reports Alison Moore
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Strength in numbers - mental health partnerships
The providers of services for people with schizophrenia in Liverpool saw ISIP as a great chance to bring the NHS and local authority together, as Helen Mooney explains
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Payment by results consultation published
The results of a consultation on the future of payment by results have been published by the Department of Health.
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Why achieving equality in healthcare is proving tricky
Spending on heart disease detection and treatment perfectly illustrates how the neediest patients often get the rawest deal. Could local scrutiny ensure fair play? Sally Gainsbury reports
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Practices and PCTs at odds over budget survey claims
Strategic health authorities have questioned whether a national survey of practice-based commissioning is valid.
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David Peat on getting world class commissioning right
Call them benchmarks, standards or targets, it is no bad thing to have aspirations and the will to achieve. It is also good to be put on the spot sometimes, to help streamline the process and refine best practice.
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BMA under fire over GP pay row 'scare tactics'
Primary care trusts have rounded on the British Medical Association for drawing patients into its pay row. The accusation comes after the doctors' union distributed thousands of posters warning the public that the family doctor service is under threat.