All PCTs articles – Page 38
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HSJ Local
NHS Surrey names 11 consortia
STRUCTURE: Surrey primary care trust has named 11 emerging commissioning consortia in its area.
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HSJ Local
NHS Worcestershire to delegate £593m to consortia
STRUCTURE: Worcestershire primary care trust is planning to delegate £593m to three commissioning consortia from April - about 70 per cent of its budget.
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HSJ Local
Sutton and Merton to delegate upwards of £309m
STRUCTURE: Sutton and Merton primary care trust is planning to delegate most commissioning to two consortia - The Sutton Consortium and The Federation - from April.
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HSJ Local
South Gloucestershire PCT planning with single consortium
STRUCTURE: South Gloucestershire primary care trust is in the early stages of planning a single commissioning consortium for the patch.
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HSJ Local
Manchester PCT looks to delegate £696m commissioning
STRUCTURE: Manchester primary care trust is planning to delegate £696m spending - around 70 per cent of its budget - to its emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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HSJ Local
Lambeth eyes one consortium with three localities
STRUCTURE: A single commissioning consortium containing three locality groups is emerging in Lambeth.
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News
NHS warned to expect surge in clinical negligence claims
The NHS faces a “massive” increase in clinical negligence claims this year, the chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority has told MPs.
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News
PCTs fail to make half of savings targets
Primary care trusts are predicting they will miss their savings targets by up to 56 per cent this year, analysis by HSJ has found.
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News
53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
More than 50,000 NHS jobs face being axed, including doctors, nurses and dentists, because of government spending cuts, “destroying” claims about the funding of the health service, a new report claims.
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News
PCT cluster retracts threat to cut public health posts
A primary care trust cluster in London has retracted letters sent to public health staff warning them their posts were “at risk”, after a minister publicly said it was wrong.
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News
Conflict of interest concern in primary care centre cuts
Primary care access centres are becoming a common early target for cuts, examples highlighted to HSJ suggest, as spending is squeezed and GPs take a greater role in commissioning.
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News
Ministers warned PCT clustering 'will damage innovators'
Seven areas with high levels of health and social care integration have formally warned the government that its “inflexible” approach to NHS reform will force them to dismantle their current arrangements.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health Bill framework leaves NHS property up for grabs
Close examination of last month’s Health and Social Care Bill reveals interesting potential for the transference of NHS property - something the increasingly costly estate is much in need of, argue Graham Lea and Nathan East.
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HSJ Knowledge
The importance of administration, management and bureaucracy in healthcare
Examination of last month’s Health Bill has resulted in a renewed attack on NHS managers and the ‘back-office functions’ administration, management and bureaucracy. However, not only are these functions quite separate, they are all still essential, write John Carrier, Chair of NHS Camden, and professor Ian Kendall from the University ...
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News
Joint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m
NHS Trusts can save £664m from the total they spend on joint surgery over the next 10 years, according to an exclusive analysis made available on hsj.co.uk.
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News
Trusts underestimating 'hidden' staff bank costs by 40 per cent
Trusts are underestimating the true costs of running in-house staffing banks by as much as 40 per cent, an NHS Professionals report has claimed.
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News
PCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise
NHS Western Cheshire staff may launch the first commissioning support social enterprise.
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HSJ Knowledge
Achieving better outcomes with learning disabilities services
Learning disabilities services that draw hard on funding can be better commissioned for improved quality at a lower cost. Rob Greig, chief executive of National Development Team for Inclusion, explains the approach.
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News
Anti-trespass laws to be used to shift bed blocking patients
Hospitals in north Merseyside are planning to use the anti-trespass powers used to ban “hoodies” from shopping centres to shift patients who are blocking beds.
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HSJ Local
NHS County Durham developing consortia delegation plans
FINANCE: The primary care trust is quickly developing plans to delegate payment-by-results based budgets to commissioning consortia.