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
On 1 July, integrated care boards mark their third anniversary. It’s a milestone that comes at a moment of significant challenge and change, writes Paul Burstow
An integrated care board has agreed extra GP funding, in a U-turn after threatening to declare practices in breach of their contracts.
Two new types of primary care contract are set to be used to roll out neighbourhood health – and will sometimes involve trusts and other large-scale providers taking over struggling GP practices.
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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