All PCTs articles – Page 6
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HSJ Local
Wiltshire CCG appoints accountable officer
WORKFORCE: Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed a former primary care trust director as its interim accountable officer.
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HSJ Local
PCT cluster joins lung cancer campaign
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey is pushing a national campaign highlighting that a persistent cough can be a symptom of lung cancer.
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HSJ Local
CCG in Kent to launch patient network
STRUCTURE: The emerging clinical commissioning group in Thanet is launching a “health network” to help inform its decision making.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria clinical commissioners take on £676m budget
FINANCE: The primary care trust, NHS Cumbria, has delegated control of over £600m of its £900m budget for 2012-13 to Cumbria’s clinical commissioning group.
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HSJ Local
Norfolk cluster faces tough QIPP challenge
FINANCE: The Norfolk and Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT cluster will need to make nearly £40m QIPP savings to deliver a £2m surplus in 2012-13, the board was told.
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HSJ Local
Herts PCT to hold own contract with London provider
FINANCE: NHS Hertfordshire is to hold its own contract with a London trust after concerns that plans to decommission services were not moving forward.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning board offices 'to match old SHAs'
There are set to be 27 local arms of the NHS Commissioning Board, it has been confirmed.
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NewsSeveral CCGs to be larger than outgoing PCTs
Three parts of the country will have clinical commissioning groups larger than the primary care trusts they will replace.
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HSJ Local
East Lancs CCG given estimated operating budget of £8.98m
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group set to replace NHS East Lancashire has been allocated an indicative running costs budget of £8.98m, a paper published by the NHS Commissioning Board today shows.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool CCG given estimated operating budget of £11.4m
FINANCE: The clinical commissioning group set to replace NHS Liverpool has been allocated an indicative running costs budget of £11.4m, a paper published by the NHS Commissioning Board today shows.
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HSJ Local
West Yorks PCTs QIPP plan not signed off due to cash problems
FINANCE: The 2012-13 quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan for the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield PCT Cluster has not been finally signed off, an SHA cluster board report notes.
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HSJ Local
North Yorkshire and York struggling on QIPP
FINANCE: A strategic health authority cluster summary shows North Yorkshire and York PCT is struggling to meet and plan for quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings.
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HSJ Local
County Durham & Darlington overshoots 2011-12 QIPP
FINANCE: NHS County Durham & Darlington achieved 109 per cent of its planned QIPP savings target for 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
NHS North West London makes 82pc of QIPP target
FINANCE: The cluster of eight primary care trusts in north west London had set itself a savings target of £142.3m in 2011-12 but achieved £116.5m.
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HSJ Local
NW London providers set to learn cluster's service change proposals
STRUCTURE: The provider trusts and clinical commissioning groups of north west London are to be sent a letter with the proposals for service changes on 8 June.
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News
PCTs to pay GPs an extra £1.1m following system error
The Department of Health has told primary care trusts to make an additional £1.1m of payments to GPs by the end of June, to correct an error dating back to 2004.
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HSJ Local
Gloucestershire could set up CFT
STRUCTURE: NHS Gloucestershire will be allowed to consider setting up a community foundation trust to house its provider arm, after being granted special permission from the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Physio phone triage rolled out in Surrey
STRUCTURE: Physiotherapy patients in mid Surrey are now benefiting from telephone triage within 48 hours of GP referral, according to the county’s main community social enterprise.
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HSJ Local
NHS North Yorkshire & York just breaks even for 2011-12
FINANCE: NHS North Yorkshire and York narrowly finished 2011-12 in financial balance, but has been risk-rated red by NHS North of England for the year.
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NewsTrusts eye capital gains from surplus NHS land sales
NHS organisations plan to place surplus land equivalent to 350 Trafalgar Squares on the market for housing development in the next few years, latest figures from the Department of Health reveal.