STRUCTURE: A single commissioning consortium is emerging in Shropshire County, with all practices signed up except one in Bridgnorth.
A transition board of GPs has been established, which will replace the primary care trust’s professional executive committee from April.
GP board members will sit on PCT committees and boards within their portfolio areas, and will work with PCT managerial staff in a shadowing and advisory capacity.
Information released to HSJ
February 2011
A senior leader within the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West integrated care system has announced she will step down from her roles next year.
This week: Alyson McGregor, national director, Altogether Better
Thirteen out of 29 regions have yet to formally commit to new pathology models, the latest update has revealed, although senior chiefs have declared the major efficiency scheme remains on track.
Fears over the “inappropriate” treatment of children and young people with autism has prompted a review of 1,400 cases in a trust’s under pressure mental health service.
NHS Improvement has rejected two separate bids to take over a community trust, claiming neither submission met the full criteria.
An acute trust and a mental health provider in the West Midlands will compete to take over a neighbouring community trust after both were shortlisted as preferred bidders to run the struggling provider.
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