All articles by Dave West – Page 63
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CommentA new era for performance management in the North
Last month’s clustering of strategic health authorities ushers in a new era of performance management in the North of England.
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NewsExclusive: DH and Monitor in 'power battle' over running of regulator
A “power battle” is underway between the Department of Health and Monitor over the extent to which the regulator needs to be split in two to avoid conflicts of interest, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: NHS begins planning CCG authorisation 'pipeline'
The NHS has begun constructing a “pipeline” to authorise clinical commissioning groups, in an effort to avoid a log jam before the April 2013 target.
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NewsPayment by results moves to 'bundled' contracts
The Department of Health is set to signal that NHS commissioners can move away from payment by results in 2012-13 in an attempt to control costs.
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NewsDH to act on thousands of long-wait patients
The government has announced it will act over the thousands of patients who are waiting for longer than a year before treatment, and concerns they may be concealing others on “hidden lists”.
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NewsExclusive: 'Significant majority' of CCG population will live in its area - minister
Health minister Earl Howe has written to peers giving new details about how clinical commissioning groups’ populations and areas will be decided.
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NewsBill delay threat as government consults on reform risk register
The health secretary has been forced to consult across government on whether to publish the risk register for the NHS reform “transition”, as ordered by the Information Commissioner, ministers have confirmed.
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NewsExclusive: Lansley on the CQC, integration, the reform risk register and commissioning
Andrew Lansley has told HSJ the Care Quality Commission is now running a “proactive and tough” inspection regime and revealed he does not favour further reorganisation of NHS regulation.
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NewsLansley to announce 'ban' on minimum waiting times
The health secretary is to announce a “ban” on primary care trusts setting minimum waiting times for procedures, with the threat of “removing the chair of the PCT” if it is broken.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning board to include 50 local medical directors
The NHS Commissioning Board will include around 50 local branches, each with a medical leader, its chief executive Sir David Nicholson has decided.
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NewsDH signals new delays to commissioning support procurement
Most clinical commissioning groups will be unable to bring in major new support services to replace ex-primary care trust staff until early 2014, new Department of Health guidance indicates.
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NewsGP commissioning leaders: CCGs should not set referral limits
GPs should not be set referral limits or caps, but must be free to decide NHS spending priorities, two of the biggest supporters of the commissioning reforms have told HSJ.
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NewsKing's Fund and Future Forum challenge GP contract 'barrier'
The King’s Fund is throwing its weight behind proposals to define and expand the services required from NHS GP contractors.
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NewsNational framework launched for clinical commissioning leadership development
A national framework has been launched for buying leadership development for clinical commissioners.
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NewsHospital death rate focus will disappear - Keogh
Interest in hospital mortality indicators will “wane” within three years as clinicians produce dozens of service-specific quality measures, the NHS medical director has predicted.
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NewsGP contract: BMA and government agree on choice and 0.5 per cent rise
The government and GP representatives have agreed to pilot methods of increasing choice of general practice.
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NewsLib Dems peers push series of amendments on competition
Liberal Democrat peers are supporting a series of amendments to the Health Bill aimed at curtailing competition regulation, and are concerned it could still extend the application of European competition law to the NHS.
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NewsFourteen trusts rated worst by first official hospital death rate
Fourteen hospital trusts have been identified as the poorest performers in the first official hospital-wide mortality ratings.
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CommentNorth East PCTs mull region-wide commissioning support
Primary care trusts in the NHS Tees cluster are planning to form a commissioning support organisation with others in the North East, which could extend across the whole of the region and even move into Yorkshire.
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NewsSingle NHS finance and performance post abolished
The post which had been expected to become the second most senior job in the new NHS has been split in two.