All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 23
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Comment'It makes a welcome change to hear praise for NHS managers'
Sir David Nicholson’s letter to colleagues after the spending review recognised that great public service leadership “more than anything else” will be central to improving quality and productivity.
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NewsGP services face scrutiny under competition system
Community services provided by GPs worth nearly £400m will have to go through a competition approval process as part of the transition to consortium commissioning, HSJ has been told.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: health mogul
‘Family doctor to health mogul? It’s what my patients want for me’
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Liverpool PCT sets out finance challenges for GP commissioners
FINANCE: At the first meeting of the PCT’s interim GP commission board, held in December, the PCT’s head of information and intelligence described the key features of the city’s £900m commissioning spend.
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Sefton developing two commissioning consortia
STRUCTURE: Two commissioning consortia are emerging within Sefton Primary Care Trust.
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Southampton plan to delegate urgent care to city-wide consortium
STRUCTURE: Southampton City PCT has plans to delegate £80m in urgent care commissioning to a single commissioning consortium covering the patch.
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NewsDH: 20 trusts' futures in doubt
The Department of Health has identified about 20 organisations that will struggle to achieve foundation status, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has revealed.
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NewsNHS reforms 'need patient voice'
The radical healthcare system reforms must be amended to give patients a stronger say over their local services, a group of leading health charities have said.
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Northumberland mental health trust seeks GP relationships
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Foundation Trust is seeking to develop its relationship with local GPs, anticipating the move to GP led commissioning.
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GPs involved in Mid Yorks 2011-12 contract
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: Commissioning consortia GP leads are taking a role in developing Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust’s contract with NHS Wakefield District.
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NHS Wakefield involving lead GPs in acute contract
FINANCE: NHS Wakefield District is involving commissioning consortia leads in agreeing its main acute contract.
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Sheffield 'likely' to delegate commissioning soon
STRUCTURE: NHS Sheffield is likely to build on practice based commissioning arrangements by delegating responsibility to consortia once structures are agreed, it has said.
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Eastern Kent PCT announces pathfinder consortia
STRUCTURE: six pathfinder commissioning consortia have been announced in the area covered by NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent.
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Sheffield consortia emerging from practice based commissioners
STRUCTURE: Commissioning consortia appear to be shaping around four practice based commissioning clusters in Sheffield.
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NewsCommissioning firms to help shape support landscape
Private companies are being invited to a series of NHS events to help design commissioning support arrangements which will apply after primary care trusts are abolished.
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HSJ KnowledgeCommissioning consortia must avoid top-down organisation
The organisational make-up of commissioning consortia needs to break from the existing PCT structure. Ben Gowland, chief executive of Nene Commissioning Community Interest Company, explains why.
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CommentMichael White: opposition's political artillery fire rings hollow
A barrage of political artillery fire preceded Monday’s Commons second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe governance challenge for commissioning consortia
GPs intent on establishing commissioning consortia need to make sure they quickly understand the most important governance issues, such as board accountability and director liability, to meet the demanding challenges they are about to face.
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NewsReforms are a 'new deal', PM tells GPs
Prime minister David Cameron has spearheaded the government’s latest attempt to rally GPs behind consortium commissioning.
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NewsTransition 'carefully designed and managed', says government
The government has insisted its NHS reform process is “carefully designed and managed”, in reaction to criticism from the health committee.