All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 16
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News'Business review' to start for commissioning support
Commissioning support services being developed by primary care trust clusters are likely to undergo a national “business review”.
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CommentCally Bann: the Big Society's 'Big Listen'
I have my doubts whether this period of political deflection, that is, reflection, will bring changes of any substance to the NHS reforms.
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NewsGPs unclear on forming non-neighbouring consortia
GPs remain in the dark over whether they can form consortia from non-neighbouring practices.
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North Tyneside consortium picks chair and chief exec
STRUCTURE: The CareFirst consortium, one of two in North Tyneside PCT, has chosen a chair and chief executive.
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NewsCameron promises changes to NHS plans
David Cameron has promised “proper and substantive” changes to the government’s NHS reforms but insisted his under-fire health secretary was doing an “excellent” job.
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HSJ Local
Consortia managers appointed in Nottinghamshire
WORKFORCE: Each of the five commissioning consortia in Nottinghamshire has now appointed a chief operating officer.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster establishes PCT-wide consortium as board committee
STRUCTURE: Doncaster PCT has disbanded its professional executive committee and established a Commissioning Consortium Board as a sub committee of the PCT board.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bassetlaw identifies £5.7m of disinvestments
NHS Bassetlaw has identified £5.7m of “disinvestment opportunities” but says these will require £3.7m of one-off costs, including money for a GP incentive scheme.
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NewsSir David will 'press on' with reform details
The Department of Health will publish key details on the emerging NHS structures in coming weeks, despite significant uncertainty about the government’s reforms.
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CommentReform pause welcomed by slowly emerging Yorkshire pathfinders
Some at NHS Barnsley may have reacted with a sigh of relief to last week’s news of a “pause” in the reform of the NHS.
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NewsReform goals hampered by political pause
The practical implications of the “pause” in the passage of the Health Bill will significantly hamper the reform process, according to NHS sources.
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HSJ Local
Queen Victoria Hospital plans to promote its tertiary services
COMMERCIAL: The Queen Victoria Hospital FT has said it needs to promote its specialist tertiary services to primary care trusts and commissioning consortia in order to protect these services in future.
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NewsClegg plays down aide quit threat
Nick Clegg has played down a threat from one of his closest allies to quit over controversial NHS reforms.
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HSJ Knowledge'Putting PCT staff into commissioning organisations could prove to be insanity'
Someone once said that the distance between insanity and genius is measured by success. So only time will tell which of these terms best describes the idea of turning primary care trusts into commissioning support units, writes Ben Gowland.
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HSJ Local
Barnsley consortia 'can't become pathfinders'
STRUCTURE: Two GP groups within Barnsley cannot become pathfinders because of they are not geographically defined, their primary care trust has reported. It has established a GP commissioning transition group as a formal sub-committee of its board.
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NewsClegg aide threatens to quit over reforms
One of Nick Clegg’s closest allies has threatened to quit unless the government slows down the pace of its controversial NHS reforms.
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NHS Stoke on Trent devolves strategic commissioning to GPs
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust has stepped down a board sub-committee dealing with strategic commissioning.
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NewsSteve Field: Cameron listening exercise is for real
Steve Field, chair of the government’s NHS Future Forum review, has told HSJ it is “not just a paper exercise” but says “going back” on the Health Bill is not an option.
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Barnsley commissioning plans 'stall' as consortium declines to merge
STRUCTURE: Plans for a single commissioning consortium in Barnsley had “stalled”, the PCT reported, as an existing GP group declines to merge.