NHS Chiltern CCG – Page 4
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HSJ Local
Three clusters advertise for commissioning support MD
STRUCTURE: An NHS commissioning support service has advertised for a managing director “with commercial experience” and the “necessary commercial acumen to effectively grow the business”.
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HSJ Local
Bucks PCT falling short on CIP
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire primary care trust is beating its revenue spending target, but falling behind on its cost improvement plan.
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HSJ Local
Bucks healthcare reviews FT application
STRUCTURE: Buckinghamshire Healthcare is “reconsidering” its timetable for becoming a foundation trust due to “financial pressures”.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire and Bucks CSS told to address 'footprint' issue
STRUCTURE: The commissioning support service being set up in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire could merge with neighbouring bodies after its first assessment by NHS South of England.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire CCGs mull merger
STRUCTURE: Two Buckinghamshire clinical commissioning groups are consulting on whether to merge.
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HSJ Local
NHS 111 roll out threatened after DH technical demand
PERFORMANCE: The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire primary care trust cluster has said delivery of its NHS 111 service could slip – with unknown time and cost implications – because of a new technical specification from the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire reconfiguration consultation begins
STRUCTURE: Consultation has begun on a proposed reconfiguration programme in Buckinghamshire.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Buckinghamshire commissioners are struggling to meet the 18 week referral to treatment target.
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HSJ Local
Ox-Bucks cluster 'concerned' over QIPP
FINANCE: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire primary care trust cluster has expressed “concern” over its ability to meet its quality, improvement, productivity and prevention plan for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire plans reconfiguration programme
STRUCTURE: Commissioners and clinicians in Buckinghamshire are planning to redesign services to develop centres of excellence for specialist care, ensure acute hospitals are sustainable and move more services into the community.
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HSJ Local
Buckinghamshire denies treatments as demand rises
PERFORMANCE: Dozens of patients in Buckinghamshire have been declined funding for “low priority procedures” after commissioners took action to improve failing performance against the 18-week referral to treatment standard.
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HSJ Local
Rising referrals cause concern in Buckinghamshire
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners in Buckinghamshire have expressed concerns over rising demand from GP referrals.
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HSJ Local
64 patients declined funding as NHS Buckinghamshire fails on 18 week target
PERFORMANCE: Dozens of Buckinghamshire patients have been declined funding after commissioners took action to improve performance against the 18 week referral to treatment standard.
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HSJ Local
SHA identifies concerns over finance and performance in Oxfordshire and Bucks
PERFORMANCE: The Buckinghamshire health system has been given an amber “performance under review” rating by the South Central strategic health authority.
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HSJ Local
Bucks data returns held up by RIO
PERFORMANCE: Installing the RIO information system has caused delays in data collection at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Oxford Radcliffe to review 'significantly higher than expected' death rate
PERFORMANCE: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust is to begin formally reviewing around 800 deaths a year after finding it has an unusually high mortality rate and was unable to identify what proportion of deaths were avoidable.
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HSJ Local
Cluster chief resigns
The chief executive of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire primary care trust cluster has resigned, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Reconfiguration in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire to leave three main acute sites
STRUCTURE: A strategy for the future of acute and community care in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has made no mention of Ascot’s Heatherwood hospital, which has already been dogged by closure fears.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners set out vision for Berkshire and Buckinghamshire reform
STRUCTURE: Commissioners and clinicians have published a strategy for reforming acute and community services in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.
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News
Acutes target community assets worth almost £3bn
Acute trusts – many of them financially troubled – are set to inherit community service assets worth £2.7bn, creating the possibility property will be offloaded to hit short term savings targets, HSJ can reveal.