All NHS Salford CCG articles – Page 3
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NewsSir David Dalton to run two acute trusts
Sir David Dalton, chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust, is to take over the leadership of another major provider in Greater Manchester.
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NewsDevo Manc leaders seek private investment for NHS
Greater Manchester looking at non-NHS sources of funding due to the constraints on capital funds at the DH and NHS England “Exploratory discussions” with institutional investors will gauge appetite for creating private investment fund LIFT and PFI type schemes likely to be considered Council leaders in Greater Manchester ...
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HSJ Local300 CSU staff to transfer to CCG
About 300 support staff for Greater Manchester to move to Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group Option of transferring staff to another CSU rejected for fears it would undermine devolution project There have been at least 22 redundancies About 300 commissioning support staff for Greater Manchester are set to be ...
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HSJ LocalSpecialised cancer services shake-up in Greater Manchester
Transformation team confirms plans to reduce the number of surgical centres for oesophago-gastric and urology cancers There are three OG surgery sites and five sites for urology cancer surgery NHS England previously announced plans to consolidate the services on two sites but failed to achieve a consensus Health ...
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HSJ LocalManchester GPs could start ‘shadow’ voluntary contracts from April
GPs could begin adopting shadow MCP type contracts in April Discussions around shadow contracts at advanced stage, HSJ understands GP federation chair says their work is influencing national contract discussions STUCTURE: Primary care providers across Greater Manchester could start operating population based contracts in shadow form from as ...
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HSJ LocalCCG links extra GP funding to new standards
CCG to link £2.4m of extra funding to new quality standards Individual practices are unlikely to meet the standards without some form of collaboration with others Borough’s LMC is broadly supportive of the project Commissioners in Salford will invest an extra £2.4m in primary medical care next year, ...
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HSJ LocalThird trust considers joining Dalton’s ‘hospital chain’
Bolton was previously reluctant to join Salford Royal and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh in their foundation group Trusts expected to retain separate boards under the new model, but could be run by a joint executive team The three FTs have begun discussions over reconfiguration of breast surgery and women’s ...
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NewsNHS England ‘tightly in control of the purse strings’ for devo Manc
Details of the devolution arrangements for 2016-17 show key changes affecting specialised services Main changes involve budgets being delegated to a Greater Manchester chief officer, an employee of NHS England. Local leaders say arrangements are “consistent with what we set out to do by this point” King’s Fund experts ...
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HSJ LocalRevealed: CCG and councils planning to form ‘one organisation’
Councils and clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester are being encouraged to integrate their commissioning functions, as part of the region’s devolution project.
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HSJ LocalGreater Manchester CCGs call for region-wide ambulance contract
Commissioners are exploring whether they can form a new contract for emergency ambulance services across Greater Manchester.
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NewsExclusive: GP groups cover most of England but ‘lack ambition and priorities’
Large scale GP provider groups operating in 82 per cent of England’s CCG areas There are 268 federations up and running, HSJ research suggests It is estimated that these organisations cover 41 million patients Four fifths of clinical commissioning groups have at least one large scale GP provider ...
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HSJ LocalDeficit reduction 'outside' Greater Manchester's £450m transformation pot
Greater Manchester leaders “very pleased” with £450m transformation fund Strategic plan says deficit management will be the “responsibility of the NHS” FINANCE: Greater Manchester will receive £450m of “transformation funding” through a direct allocation from NHS England over the next five years.
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HSJ LocalGreater Manchester GPs asked to be 'early adopters' of new contract
WORKFORCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester want their GPs to become an “early adopters” of the government’s new contract.
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HSJ LocalTrust's rationale for moving high risk surgery 'not supported'
Pennine Acute Trust say transfer of emergency and high risk general surgery has “implications” beyond those described during consultation All non-elective inpatient surgery to be transferred out of North Manchester General Hospital Reconfiguration leaders “do not recognise or support” the trust’s view RECONFIGURATION: Leaders at a major acute ...
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HSJ LocalManchester plans ‘radical scaling up’ of shared services to close financial gap
STRUCTURE: The financial challenge facing Greater Manchester will require ‘radical scaling up’ of shared services across the acute sector, according to health leaders.
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HSJ Local'Inaccurate' email sparks row over Manchester hospital reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Doctors have been accused of distributing ‘inaccurate’ information as part of their campaign to retain emergency and high risk general surgery at a major teaching hospital in Manchester.
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HSJ LocalDoctors seek judicial review of Manchester emergency surgery shake-up
STRUCTURE: A group of doctors is set to launch a judicial review of the decision to remove emergency and high risk general surgery from Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.
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HSJ LocalLeading North West FTs to create 'foundation chain'
STRUCTURE: Work has started to create a ‘foundation chain’ between two leading hospital trusts in the North West, HSJ has been told.
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NewsUpdated: Greater Manchester CCGs set up shared support service
Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester have established a shared support service function.
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HSJ LocalDevo Manc leaders request £500m 'pump prime' funding
STRUCTURE: Leaders in Greater Manchester have revealed some of the ‘radical changes’ to the way NHS services could be funded in the region from next year.