All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 19
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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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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 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”.
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NewsBook balancing managers' 'biggest challenge'
The need to save cash and balance the books is the biggest challenge facing NHS managers, according to a survey.
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Comment'There are no winners while there is 'them and us' tribalism in the NHS'
“Them and us”. All too often an off-hand remark and the death knell of a beautiful conversation, usually with the word “tariff” thrown in.
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NewsGPs commission controversial complementary therapies
Having been given the purse strings to the NHS commissioning budget, a host of GPs opted to commission complementary therapies, including acupuncture and aromatherapy.
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NewsCommissioning funds used to pay for GP basics
GPs have been able to boost their take-home pay by using commissioning funds rather than their general contractors’ income to buy basic medical equipment and fund practice refurbishments, an HSJ investigation reveals.
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Comment'Without a firm battle plan, consortia might find themselves neither here nor there'
The grand old health secretary risks getting the new consortia stuck on the hill, unless a change in strategy to push them higher up the slope of success is attempted.
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News'Sensible boundary' needed on GP competition rules, says Monitor
Monitor has stressed the need to avoid an overly restrictive approach to regulating competition issues affecting GP commissioners.
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NewsNicholson must 'prove he trusts' GP commissioners
Potential consortium leaders will “walk away” unless they are handed sufficient autonomy, leading GP commissioners have warned the NHS chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Gloucestershire consortium made pathfinder
STRUCTURE: The commissioning consortium in the primary care trust’s area has been granted “pathfinder” status by the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
NHS Lincolnshire adds fourth pathfinder consortium
STRUCTURE: A further consortium in the area has been granted pathfinder status by the Department of Health.
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HSJ Local
Ten shadow consortia emerge across Birmingham
STRUCTURE: So far 10 “shadow” commissioning consortia have emerged across Birmingham.
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NewsDH forbids PCT cluster companies
The Department of Health is set to tell primary care trusts they should stop establishing “shadow” commissioning consortia as limited companies.
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NewsConsortia decisions could be voted on via mobiles
New X Factor-style technology could allow GPs to vote on decisions about health service commissioning and service redesign using their mobile phones.
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NewsAnalysed: government announces third wave pathfinders
The announcement of the third tranche of “pathfinder” GP consortia takes the proportion of the English population covered to just over two thirds.
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HSJ Local
Camden PCT hopes to delegate to single consortium
STRUCTURE: All practices in Camden, except the PCT-run practice, are set to join a single commissioning consortium.
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HSJ Local
Four consortia emerging from Warwickshire practices
STRUCTURE: Four commissioning consortia are emerging from Warwickshire practices.