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NewsCCG’s break with QOF set to test integration and co-commissioning support
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework will test whether the approach could help drive integration and support co-commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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NewsSingle online tool launched to aid mental health data models
Efforts to develop more sophisticated approaches to commissioning, funding and comparing mental health services could be helped by a new online database.
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Patients 'don't understand doctors'
Health workers must do more to ensure patients can understand the advice they have been given, leading doctors have said.
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NewsThe legacy of the Griffiths report: share your views
Share your thoughts on the impact of the landmark leadership report.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.06.2014: Sir Andrew Cash appointed Shelford Group chair
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust will be put into special measures “in the next few days, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsWinter pressures continue into spring
Hospital trusts across England reported higher than planned deficits in the first month of the financial year, linked to winter pressures dragging on into the spring, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Revealed: CSU sector income is £50m above expectations
Commissioning support units made a collective surplus of nearly 6 per cent, HSJ can reveal after obtaining financial performance data for the entire sector for the first time.
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NewsTrusts exodus from Capita HR contract
Trusts across Liverpool are pulling out of a “landmark” £27m deal to buy their payroll and recruitment services from outsourcing giant Capita, fewer than three years into the seven-year contract.
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NewsCall for human factors support for patient safety
A group of leading patient safety experts are seeking central funding to support the spread of human factors science.
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NewsNHS could learn cost-cutting lessons from retail, Corrigan claims
Hospitals need to follow in the footsteps of retailers when it comes to cost-cutting techniques and quality measures, it has been claimed.
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NewsSarah Wollaston elected Commons health committee chair
Conservative MP for Totnes, who is a former GP, succeeds Stephen Dorrell
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NewsHSJ Live 18.06.2014: Sarah Wollaston elected health committee chair
Coverage of this afternoon’s vote to select the new chair of the Commons health committee, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsBurnham tackles reorganisation fear over Labour plans
Concern that Labour’s plans for integrated care would necessitate another NHS reorganisation will be tackled by shadow health secretary during the key note session at next week’s Commissioning Show.
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NewsCCGs respond poorly to CQC pre-inspection requests
The majority of clinical commissioning groups are failing to relay concerns about their providers to the Care Quality Commission before inspections are carried out, denying the watchdog intelligence about the quality of hospital services.
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NewsCourt rules doctors must consult patients over resuscitation orders
BREAKING: Patients have a new legal right to be consulted before doctors place ‘do not attempt resuscitation’ orders in their notes
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NewsOptum and Capita bid for lead provider framework
The private firms Optum and Capita have placed bids to join NHS England’s lead provider framework for commissioning support services, HSJ understands.
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NewsOne in four trust coalition on NHS
Only one in four people trusts the government with the NHS, according to the “damning” findings of poll commissioned by a union.
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NewsProbe lays bare ‘lapses’ in past patient records safety procedures
An investigation has uncovered ‘significant administrative lapses’ in processes used by the NHS Information Centre to oversee the release of patient records to organisations including research bodies, government departments and insurers.
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NewsHSJ Live 17.06.2014: One in four trust coalition on NHS
Only one in four people trusts the government with the NHS, according to the “damning” findings of a poll commissioned by a union, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsCCGs seek to follow Somerset in breaking away from QOF
Clinical commissioning groups have queued up to follow Somerset’s lead and break away from the national quality and outcomes framework, despite a strong signal from NHS England that further extension of the freedoms were unlikely in 2014-15.