All NHS England (Commissioning Board) articles – Page 379
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NewsLord Carter outlines early priorities for procurement
The new NHS procurement champion has urged trusts to be open minded about the benefits of a more centralised purchasing system
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NewsPractices increasingly relying on primary care staff to fill GP shortfalls
GP surgeries in areas with some of the highest patient to doctor ratios are increasingly relying on nurses to plug gaps left by the shortage of medics
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CommentTeach clinicians how to talk about cancer
Patients want a dialogue that goes beyond their consultation
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NewsExclusive: Lord Carter appointed NHS 'procurement champion'
The Department of Health has appointed Labour peer Lord Carter as the NHS’s “procurement champion” to help the service save up to £2bn on its budget, HSJ has learned.
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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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NewsNHS England strategy director joins GP and urgent care provider
The recently departed strategy director of NHS England has been appointed as a partner at a large GP and urgent care provider.
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NewsExclusive: New health committee chair Sarah Wollaston's first interview
The new chair of the Commons health committee has named whistleblowing, patient safety and the safeguarding of patient records as key areas of attention for the committee under her stewardship, she told HSJ.
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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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LeaderNHS England content to let CCGs break free
The organisation is willing to risk BMA disapproval
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Supplements
Estates management: Building blocks of the new era
The 2012 reforms will have a huge impact on what goes where
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HSJ LocalDispute hits finances of CCG and provider in Shropshire
COMMERCIAL: A contract dispute between a clinical commissioning group and a trust in Shropshire has resulted in the CCG being placed in “financial recovery” and the provider pushed deeper into deficit, board papers showed.
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CommentWe want to embed innovation on the front line
NHS England’s new initiative will open up care improvement
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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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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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HSJ KnowledgeReality check: how the better care fund will work on the ground
Fundamental issues must be addressed
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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.
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NewsExclusive: CQC set to take on patient safety from NHS England
The Care Quality Commission has been asked to consider taking on the patient safety role from NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDH creates £250m fund for elective 'resilience'
The Department of Health is to provide an additional £250m to the NHS to help providers clear their planned care waiting list backlogs.
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NewsBMA: NHS England QOF move spells 'Balkanisation of national healthcare'
Allowing GPs in a single clinical commissioning group to break away from the nationally agreed quality and outcomes framework could lead to the “Balkanisation of national healthcare”, the British Medical Association has warned.
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CommentEnglish waiting times step back from the brink
But trouble is still building in the longest wait specialties