All NHS Stockport CCG articles – Page 2

  • HSJ Local

    Children face ‘heart breaking’ delays for dental surgery

    2016-10-18T11:23:00Z

    Children forced to wait up to a year for tooth extractions under general anaesthetic More than 1,500 children on the waiting list across all providers in Greater Manchester Dealing with the problems escalated to NHS England Leaders in Greater Manchester have drawn up plans to address a crisis ...

  • Stockport
    HSJ Local

    MCP vanguard looks to take on A&E

    2016-10-13T07:00:00Z

    Stockport MCP to include hospital services including the emergency department, acute medicine, and frail elderly care One option is for Stockport Foundation Trust to hold the contract Decision to be made in November Leaders of a high profile vanguard project in Greater Manchester have moved away from the ...

  • Lawrence dunhill expert briefing
    Expert Briefing

    North by North West: Talking job cuts

    2016-08-09T07:30:00Z

    Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill

  • Stepping Hill hospital
    HSJ Local

    North West trust in turnaround scheme could cut workforce by 7pc

    2016-07-28T15:37:00Z

    WORKFORCE: A hospital trust in the first wave of a national turnaround programme has announced plans that could reduce its staffing establishment by 7 per cent.

  • Stockport
    HSJ Local

    Landmark reconfiguration held up by capital funding squeeze

    2016-07-14T07:00:00Z

    Healthier Together reconfiguration delayed due to constraints on capital funding The project in Greater Manchester requires £35m-£61m of capital funding, but only £3m has so far been confirmed Local leaders revisit implementation plan to “send clear message that commissioners are committed” FINANCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester have ...

  • Salford Royal Foundation Trust
    HSJ Local

    Salford 'appears' favourite to be cancer surgery centre

    2016-05-12T07:00:00Z

    Commissioners favour Salford Royal as single site for upper gastrointestinal surgery Discussions continue over urology surgery Previous efforts to reconfigure both services have been highly contentious STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Greater Manchester are likely to choose Salford Royal Foundation Trust as the single site for some specialised cancer services, ...

  • Salford Royal Foundation Trust
    HSJ Local

    Manchester vanguards will not access national fund

    2016-04-13T11:50:00Z

    The new care model vanguards being developed in Greater Manchester will need to be funded from the region’s already allocated transformation fund, not the national pot.

  • sexual health sign
    HSJ Local

    Councils tender sexual health contracts ahead of Greater Manchester deal

    2016-04-01T12:15:00Z

    Three councils in Greater Manchester have launched a tender process for their sexual health services, which are currently run by NHS providers.

  • Manchester Tram
    HSJ Local

    A&E failure may trigger national intervention in Manchester devolution

    2016-03-29T07:00:00Z

    NHS England could intervene in devolution if performance on the headline A&E target drops Several Greater Manchester trusts among worst in England for A&E performance CCGs will not have to maintain a 1 per cent surplus individually Initial arrangements described as “synthetic” devolution PERFORMANCE: A number of performance ...

  • Household patients
    HSJ Local

    700 community staff to be transferred twice in months

    2016-03-18T11:51:00Z

    WORKFORCE: More than 700 community staff in Greater Manchester will have to transfer to a new employer twice in quick succession.

  • Manchester
    News

    Devo Manc leaders seek private investment for NHS

    2016-03-16T10:49:00Z

    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 ...

  • Manchester devolution tapestry
    HSJ Local

    300 CSU staff to transfer to CCG

    2016-03-14T10:41:00Z

    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 ...

  • Surgery equipment surgeon theatre
    HSJ Local

    Specialised cancer services shake-up in Greater Manchester

    2016-03-02T11:19:00Z

    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 ...

  • Manchester central new website
    News

    NHS England ‘tightly in control of the purse strings’ for devo Manc

    2016-02-10T07:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Town hall sign
    HSJ Local

    Revealed: CCG and councils planning to form ‘one organisation’

    2016-02-10T07:00:00Z

    Councils and clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester are being encouraged to integrate their commissioning functions, as part of the region’s devolution project.

  • Ambulance2
    HSJ Local

    Greater Manchester CCGs call for region-wide ambulance contract

    2016-02-01T10:30:00Z

    Commissioners are exploring whether they can form a new contract for emergency ambulance services across Greater Manchester.

  • Medical tray with syringe, pills and water
    News

    Exclusive: GP groups cover most of England but ‘lack ambition and priorities’

    2016-01-06T07:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Manchester skyline
    HSJ Local

    Deficit reduction 'outside' Greater Manchester's £450m transformation pot

    2015-12-18T15:36:00Z

    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.

  • Manchester
    HSJ Local

    Greater Manchester GPs asked to be 'early adopters' of new contract

    2015-12-11T11:14:00Z

    WORKFORCE: Health leaders in Greater Manchester want their GPs to become an “early adopters” of the government’s new contract.

  • Surgeons
    HSJ Local

    Trust's rationale for moving high risk surgery 'not supported'

    2015-12-04T07:00:00Z

    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 ...