All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 18
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HSJ Local
East London cluster plans set out
STRUCTURE: Governance arrangements have been set out for the NHS City and East London primary care trust cluster.
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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CommentCan GPs become agents of change, or will they remain gatekeepers?
In my forthcoming book on the NHS and reform, I have devoted a chapter to trying to answer the question of whether GPs can move from gatekeepers to change agents. Andrew Lansley’s reforms pose the same question along with others – do a sufficient number of them want to make ...
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News
Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
A quarter of primary care trusts are racing ahead to hand over commissioning budgets while a third have no clear plans to “let go”.
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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NewsDoctors give verdict on health reform
Doctors have made clear the opposition to the Health Bill within the profession, but stopped short of opposing the bill in its entirety.
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Blogs
Prioritising mental health commissioning is brave, but it's also sensible
The decision to focus on mental health care, as Brighton GPs are doing, is indeed a brave one. But it is also one that makes a lot of business sense for any GP consortium, big or small, urban or rural, anywhere in England.
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NewsPublic sector executives face performance reviewed pay
Executives in the public sector should have 10 per cent of their pay held back and awarded only through good performance at the end of the year, under “radical” proposals by a government-commissioned report.
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NewsGMS agreement to reward GPs for saving money
Nearly a tenth of practices’ performance related pay could be linked to the rationing of NHS resources from April under an agreement between GPs and NHS Employers.
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HSJ Local
Rotherham PCT developing one consortium
STRUCTURE: Rotherham Primary Care Trust is developing a single commissioning consortium within its area, called Rotherham Commissioning Executive.
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NewsFunctions guidance for consortia published by DH
The Department of Health has published a “working document” to clarify what functions commissioning consortia will have to perform.
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NewsGP reforms will prevent 'Mid Staffs' scandals
The government’s commissioning reforms will help prevent scandals such as those at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by ensuring GPs do what “they ought to do”, the health secretary has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeDrawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing
While many of us recalibrate our new roles and responsibilities in the future NHS model, the opportunity to draw on the lessons of the past 20 years to inform our futures could help make sense of these times of great change and opportunity, and deliver improved health and wellbeing of ...
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NewsConsortia staff numbers will be limited
The NHS Commissioning Board will build measures into the authorisation process for consortia to limit the number of staff they can employ directly, HSJ understands.
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NewsConsortia grapple with size pros and cons
One of the first evaluations of the development of commissioning consortia has found they are struggling with questions of size and support.
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News
GPs concerned over reforms' impact on hospital finances, poll shows
GPs overwhelmingly believe the government’s NHS reforms will have a major impact on the viability of their local hospital, a survey has shown.
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HSJ Local
Brighton GPs plan to cut commissioning teeth on mental health
COMMERCIAL: “Brave” GPs in Brighton have provisionally chosen mental health as the area they would like to commission first.
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Comment'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
As the BMA gears up for a crisis meeting to debate the Health Bill, the chair of its consultant and specialists committee voices his fears of a huge split between members - and a ‘seething cauldron’ of competing providers in the future.
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HSJ Local
Independent review of North Yorks finance crisis
FINANCE: NHS Yorkshire and the Humber has commissioned an independent review of health services in North Yorkshire and York, in light of the area’s on going serious financial problems.
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NewsHull GPs refuse pathfinder 'political football'
GPs in a primary care trust area known for its strong commissioning performance are refusing to form a pathfinder consortium as they do not wish to become a “political football”.