All GP practice management articles – Page 21
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New guidance on promoting equality in procurement
The Department of Health has issued new good practice guidance on promoting equality in procurement.
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NHS Confederation rolling news: Sir William calls for PCT pragmatism
Primary care trust boards must become more 'adept and fleet of foot' in order to respond to an increasingly volatile NHS market, former NHS Appointments Commission chair Sir William Wells has warned.
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Practice-based commissioning: a potent remedy
Look at the positive elements and get practice-based commissioning rolling, urge Michael Dixon and colleagues
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Study points to QOF gaming
A government-funded study has found GPs are gaming their quality and outcomes scores to increase their income.
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Trusts face monitoring on take-up of private services
Primary care trusts in the North West risk being performance managed on the number of patients who use the private sector-operated national clinical assessment services across the patch, HSJ has learned.
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Independent treatment centre move redefines choice
'The DoH appears to be considering pushing PCTs to use independent sector treatment centres.- even to the extent of trying to steer patient choice'
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'Wreckage could sink Brown's flagship NHS policy'
In a speech to the UK's family doctor conference today, GP chair Dr Hamish Meldrum said that unless Gordon Brown 'clears the obstacles out of the way', the government's flagship NHS policy of cutting patient waiting times to 18 weeks will fail.
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Will next month's ban fire up PCT stop-smoking services?
With the smoking ban just days away, the government points to huge funding boosts for smoking cessation, but is the money hitting home? Daloni Carlisle reports
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John Murray on a joined-up service
'Devolution in the NHS means local priorities increasingly drive allocation of resources. While this development has many benefits, it can unfairly disadvantage patients with specialised conditions, who will inevitability be smaller in number and therefore have less of a voice locally'.
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David Peat on fitness for purpose
'Fitness for purpose has given us intelligence, new understandings and insights into the changing role of being a fully fledged commissioner in the new NHS. It has.helped us respond to the new realities and changes that have taken place in our relationships in and outside the NHS'
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PBC as an incentive for change
Andy Newton explains how practice-based commissioning helped achieve effective service redesign at Bath and North East Somerset.primary care trust
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HSJ Knowledge
London PBC forum archive
The London practice-based commissioning.forum has closed its doors, for the time being. The network may be resurrected in the future but in the meantime NHS Networks still has all the useful documents on practice-based commissioning that the forum generated.
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Hillingdon to invite private commissioner
The first primary care trust has been given the go-ahead to invite the private sector to run part of its commissioning function.
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Ofcare: assessment framework to rank trusts' performance
The Department of Health is developing a new vision for delivering better care and value in health and social care.
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BUPA partnership to cut waiting times
The Department of Health has announced the details of a new partnership designed to reduce waiting times and increase choice for NHS patients in the North East.
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DoH issues dental commissioning guidance
The Department of Health has published guidance on strategic commissioning of conscious sedation services in primary dental care.
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Successful commissioning suppliers announced
The Department of Health is today due to publish the full list of suppliers eligible to provide primary care trusts' commissioning and managerial services under its framework for procuring external support for commissioners.
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Private slow-down expected as service prepares for Brown
Less emphasis on the use of the private sector and a slow-down in market-based reforms could be the hallmark of Gordon Brown's premiership for the NHS, according to health experts.
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PCTs grapple with grey areas of GP-led commissioning
PBC has the potential to increase the quality and range of services available to patients, but PCTs must exercise caution to avoid conflicts of interest. Alison Moore reports
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Dr David Jenner on the workability of PBC
Are primary care trusts and strategic health authorities really encouraging GPs to get to grips with practice-based commissioning? Or are some of them encouraging this policy to fade away?