All Primary care contracts and commissioning articles – Page 24
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Halton and St Helens developing four consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS Halton and St Helens plans to develop duties already held by four practice based commissioning clusters, into consortia commissioning.
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Warrington consortium to take duties from April
STRUCTURE: One commissioning consortium is being established covering all NHS Warrington practices.
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Milton Keynes to hand £90m to two consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS Milton Keynes is planning to delegate 25 per cent of its commissioning budget to two emerging commissioning consortia from April.
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North Lincolnshire plans single consortium
STRUCTURE: NHS North Lincolnshire GP practices plan a single consortium.
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West Essex plans three consortia
STRUCTURE: NHS West Essex has three emerging commissioning consortia.
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NHS Barking and Dagenham puts forward two pathfinders
STRUCTURE: Two NHS Barking and Dagenham GP practice clusters are applying for pathfinder status.
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News60% of doctors 'disagree with reforms'
Six out of 10 doctors disagree with the government’s reforms of the NHS and many do not believe they will improve patient care, according to a poll for the Royal College of GPs.
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NewsNHS Networks site aims to help commissioners
A new website developed by NHS Networks is helping commissioners by bringing together useful information in one place.
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NewsLansley insists 'risky' reforms are vital
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said there was “risk” involved with his radical NHS reforms, but change was necessary to improve standards for patients.
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NewsPoll reveals public mistrust of reforms
Just one in four people support GPs using private companies to provide NHS services, one of the key measures of the government’s health reforms, the results of a new poll suggest.
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NewsReforms are evolution not revolution, insists Cameron
Prime minister David Cameron has defended the health reforms, claiming the need to modernise the service was “essential”.
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HSJ KnowledgeSetting a course for consortia: an HSJ and doctors.net.uk discussion
In mid-December, just ahead of the release of the 2011-12 operating framework and the response to the consultation on the Liberating the NHS white paper, HSJ and doctors.net.uk held a roundtable debate on consortium commissioning.
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NewsThousands of cancer patients 'denied radiotherapy'
Tens of thousands of people with cancer are missing out on potentially curative radiotherapy, it was claimed today.
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NewsDH will 'co-produce' authorisation process, GPs told
Pathfinder commissioning consortia have been told the NHS Commissioning Board will “co produce” with them its authorisation process for the groups, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeCommissioning: sizing up the issues of financial security
The scale of a consortium’s activities will impact on its performance. Ben Richardson and colleagues examine the levers available to influence quality
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CommentThe Health Bill - rising to the challenge
The Health Bill sets out a vision for commissioning where innovative consortia of GPs take the lead in transforming our health and social care systems from being demand-led and provider-oriented to being patient-centred and outcomes-focused.
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NewsPrime minister writes to GPs
Prime minister David Cameron has written to GPs explaining the reasons for the government’s reforms of commissioning.
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Leeds PCT delegates non-elective commissioning to pathfinder clusters
STRUCTURE: NHS Leeds will delegate non-elective commissioning to its pathfinder GP consortia from April.
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NewsCentral grip tightens under 'independence' bill
The government’s ambition to liberate the NHS has been called into question after the Health and Social Care Bill published last week apparently granted wide ranging powers of intervention to the health secretary.
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CommentMichael White: like a civil war, the Health Bill has divided political families
Reading in last week’s HSJ how Andrew Lansley’s Health Bill will combine NHS decentralisation with powerful regulation from Whitehall, I was reminded of the label once attached to the Chinese communist party’s controlled introduction of capitalism: “market Stalinism”.