All GP commissioning/practice based commissioning (PBC) articles – Page 14
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HSJ Local
Newcastle PCT delegates £344m to shadow consortia
FINANCE: Newcastle PCT has delegated responsibility for £344m spending to two emerging commissioning consortia, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
West Suffolk GPs prioritise referrals and prescribing for savings
FINANCE: Commissioning consortia in West Suffolk have prioritised high volume referrals and prescribing budgets as areas for efficiency savings.
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HSJ Local
GP consortium votes to end choose and book LES
STRUCTURE: An emerging GP consortia has voted to discontinue a local enhanced service agreement for choose and book .
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HSJ Local
NHS South Gloucestershire sets ambitious QIPP plan
FINANCE: NHS South Gloucestershire is planning to make more than £14m of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings during 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Derby City 'sharing' QIPP savings with consortia
FINANCE: Shadow commissioning budgets in Derbyshire for 2011-12 will allocate quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings to GP practices along primary care trust boundaries.
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HSJ Local
Sheffield's four consortia seek joint accountable officer
STRUCTURE: The four emerging commissioning consortia in Sheffield are forming an overarching committee, which will have an accountable officer.
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News
PCTs withholding consortia funding, claims NAPC
Primary care trusts could be setting commissioning consortia up to fail by denying them development funding, the National Association of Primary Care has claimed.
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HSJ Local
Multimillion pound commissioning support tender suspended
FINANCE: A multi-million pound tender process for development support for commissioning consortia across London has been “suspended indefinitely”.
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CommentThe listening exercise needs to reach grass roots voices
The government appears to be listening hard in a bid to appease opposition to the health service reforms - but, as Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill explains, some patient groups’ concerns are still not being addressed.
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NewsPCT clusters may survive as reform pressure builds
A continued existence beyond 2013 for primary care trust clusters looked increasingly likely this week, as the health secretary’s NHS reforms came under huge political pressure.
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HSJ Local
East Lancs Hospitals Trust agrees £307.5m acute contract for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust has secured a £307.5m acute services contract for 2011-12, in what it believes to be one of the first contract negotiations for the year concluded in Cumbria or Lancashire.
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Comment
Ben Gowland: changing the minds of managers in a clinically led NHS
In all the talk of radical health service reforms, one of the factors which has almost been forgotten is the revolutionary shift in mindset required of the NHS manager in primary care.
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HSJ Local
Five commissioning consortia in North Yorks
STRUCTURE: There are five emerging commissioning consortia in North Yorkshire, and a small number of practices which have joined a neighbouring Bradford and Airedale group.
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NewsExclusive: McKinsey called in to advise PM on NHS reforms
The panel of senior health policy experts appointed to advise the prime minister on NHS reform met for the first time yesterday.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre commissioners in it for the long haul?
Long-term conditions are likely to take centre stage as GPs get to grips with commissioning - but reforming care for patients with chronic diseases may require changes closer to home, says Alison Moore.
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HSJ KnowledgeGood call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions
Telehealth will be one of the weapons in the armoury of the NHS as it deals with the increasing number of patients with long-term conditions. Alison Moore asks whether telehealth will be the next big thing and what the barriers are to wider use.
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HSJ Local
West Sussex consortium runs into trouble with charity over nursing posts
WORKFORCE: A charity has launched a local campaign targeted at an emerging commissioning consortium it claims has “scrapped” a specialist nursing post.
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Comment'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'
As real funding is eroded amid grand health policy rhetoric, there is a desperate need for hard evidence and data to inform the fundamental policy challenges facing this government. Without it, the reforms are all but irrelevant, argues York University professor of health economics Alan Maynard.
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NewsPCT clusters and chief executives list
Full list of primary care trust clusters and their chief executives, where confirmed by the strategic health authority.
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HSJ KnowledgeEquipping clinicians with the right skills for commissioning
A development programme for clinicians taking on commissioning responsibility is equipping participants with a vital set of skills ahead of the changing NHS landscape, says NHS Derbyshire County’s executive director clinical quality and nursing Maggie Boyd.