All SHEFFIELD PCT articles – Page 3
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HSJ Local
Sheffield Health and Social Care FT bails out PCT with dementia money
FINANCE: Sheffield Health and Social Care has agreed to save around £1m to help with NHS Sheffield’s deficit.
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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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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NewsPCT chiefs help drive new structure
Five primary care trust chief executives have left their organisations for full time roles developing the new commissioning infrastructure.
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NewsNHS Sheffield chief executive goes to top leadership role at DH
NHS Sheffield chief executive Jan Sobieraj is to be seconded to the Department of Health to work on leadership.
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NewsTwo trusts registered with conditions
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust have been told their registration with the Care Quality Commission is conditional on them improving the safety and quality of their care.
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NewsSecure service referrals surge as prisons overfill
Commissioners are under significant financial pressure from a surge in referrals to secure mental health services fuelled by the recession and crowded prisons.
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NewsTrusts target staff sickness to save money
Trusts are making radical changes to pay and allowances to try to reduce costs and increase productivity without deviating from Agenda for Change.
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One in five PCTs overspent as SHAs predict cash freeze
There has been a significant deterioration in the NHS’s finances, with more than a fifth of primary care trusts reporting overspending.
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NewsPCTs show improvement in annual health check but a slide in excellence
Primary care trusts have improved their overall performance in the 2008-09 annual health check but have slipped back on achieving excellence.
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News‘Clunky’ GP contracts raise questions on quality
There are huge variations in what different PCTs pay for the same services, yet there is no detectable correlation between cost and quality or patient satisfaction. Sally Gainsbury looks at why commissioning has not yet addressed these stark contrasts
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NewsMost PCTs meet only ‘minimum requirements’ on resources use
The majority of primary care trusts are meeting only “minimum requirements” in their use of resources, the results of the Audit Commission’s annual test have shown.
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HSJ KnowledgeA guide to conscripting the public in the war on bad health
Health promotion is everyone’s business. This is the ethos of a number of public health projects gathering pace around the country. Lynne Greenwood takes a closer look
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