- NHS North West quality bonus scheme success
2.37pm: The Department of Health has published NHS reference costs for 2011-12.
2.36pm: Board HR director Jo-Anne Wass has said it is reasonably confident it will meet its targets for numbers recruited to the board for December.
4.35pm: Its chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said that there are 97 days to go until April 2013, when the new reorganised commissioning system comes into force in full.
4.35pm: The commissioning board meeting is being reported live on Twitter.
12.13am: The NHS Commissioning Board’s public board meeting begins at 1pm. It will be broadcast live online.
11.36am: HSJ’s story on that interesting Monitor paper - which finds commissioners’s decisions are a main barrier to fair competition - is online.
11.36am: The NHS Confederation’s NHS Partners Network has responded to Monitor’s interim report on its review of the “fair playing field”. Director David Worskett said: “We welcome the publication of Monitor’s discussion paper as it highlights and confirms our view that in many areas a fair playing field does not exist and it is difficult, if not impossible, for new providers to enter the market.”
11.12am: A study commissioned by the Mental Health Network has found people with learning disabilities or autism have higher mental health needs than the wider population and frequently find it more difficult to access the services they want or need.
In a response to the study the network has launched a new briefing calling on providers and commissioners of mental health services to better accommodate the mental health needs of people with autism or learning disabilities. Find out more here.
11.02am: The Prime Minister has announced details of a scheme to educate the public about dementia as part of his “dementia challenge”.
11am: An assessment published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found mortality reductions linked to the introduction of a pay for performance scheme in all NHS hospitals in one region of England
9.53am: HSJ has published the results of its first Clinical Commissioning Group Barometer. It is the first survey of CCG leaders.
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