Commissioning – Page 98
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CommentFunding black hole for specialised services leave CCGs in the dark
Turning the spotlight on specialised services data
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NewsExclusive: Lawyers could return to court over NHS England primary care decisions
Lawyers have threatened to take NHS England back to court if it cannot show it is taking steps to involve patients in primary care commissioning decisions.
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LeaderShould specialised services pay the ‘price’ of NHS changes?
Marginal tariff leaves providers short changed
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NewsRevealed: the biggest winners from the NHS funding boost
Around half the extra money for clinical commissioning groups from George Osborne’s NHS spending boost will go to just a quarter of groups.
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NewsThree southern CSUs to formally merge
Three commissioning support units have announced they are planning to enter into a formal merger.
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HSJ Partners
New care model gives patients 24/7 access to end of life care
Commissioning end of life care services
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NewsUnrealistic better care fund targets must be revised, says NHS England
Projected savings of more than £250m from the government’s flagship integrated care policy are at risk.
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NewsNational bodies pledge to root out 'misaligned' annual plans
National bodies have pledged to work ‘closely’ together to identify plans based on misaligned or unrealistic assumptions between providers and commissioners.
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NewsNew patient safety incentives revealed
New incentives to improve patient safety have been outlined by NHS England. These include advances in seven day services, care of sepsis and acute kidney injury, as well as moves to tackle antibiotic resistance.
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NewsMarginal specialised tariff would hit critical and neonatal services, providers warn
Some trusts may be forced to scale back specialised services, including critical care and neonatal units, if a marginal rate payment is introduced for them, NHS Providers has warned.
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HSJ PartnersTwitter chat round-up: Unnecessary hospital readmissions in winter
Marie Curie Twitter chat
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CommentHSJ annual lecture transcript: Simon Stevens' on forward view for the NHS
The edited transcript of the speech given by Simon Stevens at the HSJ inaugural lecture.
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NewsNHS England says CCGs must increase mental health spend
Clinical commissioning groups have been told by NHS England to increase in real terms the amount of money they spend on mental health services as part of the 2015-16 planning guidance.
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NewsPlanning guidance full coverage: next steps for the forward view
Health economies seeking to be at the forefront of moving to the new models of care set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View have been given six weeks to submit an expression of interest to NHS England
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NewsNHS England drops treatments scorecard following legal threat
NHS England has dropped a controversial scorecard that was supposed to help it make decisions about whether to fund treatments for a number of rare conditions
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CommentWhy plans to 'ration' surgery in Devon were too politically unpalatable
A canary in a coalmine?
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SupplementsCommissioning special report: Pressure is on for CCGs to step up in primary care
Clinical commissioning groups need to come to grips with how they will become involved in primary care next year. Alison Moore explains how this major shift will affect local NHS delivery
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SupplementsCommissioning special report: Case studies in how to build primary care
Co-commissioning primary care
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NewsExclusive: Better care fund investment returns 'wildly unrealistic', analysis finds
One in 10 better care fund plans are predicting a first year return on investment of more than 20 per cent, HSJ analysis has revealed, prompting new suggestions that the financial planning of the fund is ‘wildly unrealistic’.