All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 337
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NewsRevealed: Details of primary care control shift
The clinical commissioning groups taking on full control of GP services in their area this week will be responsible for performance managing poor practices and approving practice mergers, according to documents seen by HSJ.
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NewsNHS England to cut primary care support jobs
NHS England plans to cut jobs and close offices in its primary care support services just weeks before it plans to announce the winning bidder of a £1bn contract to take over the function.
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NewsLeading trusts defy NHS England over 'out of area' referrals
Teaching hospitals are continuing to refuse ‘out of area’ referrals in defiance of new rules from NHS England.
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NewsA&E pharmacists pilot gets national rollout
More than 50 pilot sites will take part in a national trial of clinical pharmacists in accident and emergency departments.
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NewsExclusive: All London CCGs and NHS England join forces on city-wide vision
All 32 London clinical commissioning groups and NHS England’s London arm have set out plans to drive the improvements called for by the NHS Five Year Forward View and the London Health Commission.
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NewsExclusive: Vanguard areas call for tender moratorium
NHS England and Monitor are facing calls to exempt ‘vanguard’ areas from requirements to tender services, amid fears that procurement processes could undermine efforts to establish integrated primary, community and acute care models.
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CommentHSJ commission: Social care and housing are important to put older people first
Issues facing older people
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NewsStevens: There will not be a single commissioning model
There will not be a single commissioning model across England over the next five years, with local authorities and accountable care organisations increasingly taking on these functions, Simon Stevens has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Improving Quality expected to close
NHS Improving Quality is expected to be substantially cut back and could well be abolished under proposals being considered by a national review of the health service’s improvement organisations, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHS England hires local director as another joins Optum
A NHS England sub-region directors is leaving to join private health firm Optum, while another of the posts has been filled by a former primary care trust chief executive.
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HSJ LocalDunn: FT structure can be used to create new care models
STRUCTURE: A key architect of the foundation trust legal structure has said the sector’s existing governance models can be used to run the new models of care set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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HSJ LocalLeading FT reports £16.5m deficit
FINANCE: One of the country’s leading foundation trusts has reported a year to date deficit of £16.5m.
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CommentThe budget is just papering over gaping holes in healthcare
There’s little mention of healthcare
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CommentThe NHS contract means an even more perverse sanctions regime
Perversity arguments have fallen on deaf ears
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NewsMapped: Quarter of area teams resort to NHS England arbitration
HSJ’s map of NHS England arbitration of disputes between providers and clinical commissioning groups since April 2013
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Supplements
Commissioning supplement: Giving new care models a supporting chance
Facilitating new models of care
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NewsBudget round up: Chancellor outlines £1.25bn mental health package
Chancellor George Osborne today outlined how a £1.25bn mental health funding package will be spent over the next five years, as part of plans for the government’s next budget.
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NewsTougher penalties under new NHS contract
Penalties for breaching referral to treatment targets have been toughened up to try to bring down waiting lists, in the final standard contract issued by NHS England, but sanctions for accident and emergency and elective treatment breaches have been reduced.
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NewsCCGs given only two weeks to finalise primary care budget arrangements
Commissioners have been left with only two weeks to finalise potentially complex legal arrangements for taking control of their primary care budgets.