Journals
Build a virtual polyclinic
Health Service Journal | BY MARK CAULFIELD | 30 November 2009
Streamlined care cannot be delivered unless clinicians are able to share information easily. Mark Caulfield describes how Tower Hamlets solved the problem with integrated IT.
As the repository for vital patient information, IT systems are at the heart of rethinking services in the post-Darzi era.
It is [...]
Camden PCT shelves plans to give contract to private company for new GP led health centre
British Medical Journal | By Clare Dyer | News | 26 November 2009
A primary care trust’s controversial decision to award a £20m [22m; $33m] contract for a GP led health centre in London to a private company has been put on hold after campaigners threatened legal action.
NHS Camden has now shelved its plan [...]
GP spending role debated
Health Service Journal | By Steve Ford | 25 November 2009
Practice based commissioning should be replaced by consortia with “real” budgets but comprising clinicians from both primary and secondary care, according to a think tank report.
The Nuffield Trust and the NHS Alliance this week called on the government to consider “radical alternatives” to GP commissioning [...]
HSJ50 2009 – Major Shifts of Power
Health Service Journal | BY RICHARD VIZE | 12 November 2009
This year’s HSJ50, the ranking of the 50 most powerful people in NHS management policy and practice in England, again reveals major shifts in who is wielding power.
It was drawn up by an expert panel in association with our partners, recruitment consultancy Harvey Nash, and [...]
David Colin-Thomé on practice based commissioning
Health Service Journal | BY DAVID COLIN-THOMÉ | 12 November 2009
I feel I need to contribute further to the debate generated by my recent choice of words – used while attempting to raise the profile of practice based commissioning implementation.
Practice based commissioning is very much here to stay and remains a key plank of the Department [...]
PBC is alive and real budgets a ‘maybe’, says tsar
Pulse | 26 October 2009
Primary care tsar, Dr David Colin-Thome has set the record straight about reports he called PBC a ‘corpse’.
He told Practical Commissioning: ‘I asked a rhetorical question – I can’t remember the exact words, but it was essentially, are we reinvigorating a corpse? I then went on to say that actually there [...]
Public-private partnerships: getting NHS finance that adds up
Health Service Journal | BY STEPHEN LANSDOWN, SHELLEY THOMAS | 23 October 2009
Public-private partnership arrangements can be the right alternative to PFI for some trusts’ equipment upgrades, say Stephen Lansdown and Shelley Thomas
The need to balance finances, manage risk and drive efficiencies are common themes in today’s NHS. Delivering high quality, safe patient care while achieving the [...]
Andy Burnham extends preferred provider vow
Health Service Journal | By Steve Ford | 22 October 2009
Non-NHS providers of services will only be contracted as a last resort, the health secretary has assured the general secretary of the TUC.
Following his announcement in September that the NHS would be the “preferred provider” of services, Andy Burnham has written to Brendan Barber promising that [...]
Tory plan could give GPs interest bonanza
Health Service Journal | BY SALLY GAINSBURY, STEVE FORD | 22 October 2009
GP practices could earn thousands of pounds a year in interest payments under Conservative plans to turn practice based commissioning budgets into “hard cash”.
At present, primary care trusts spend on average £1,600 per head of population. Under Conservative plans to extend the scope of practice based commissioning, the [...]
Walk-in doctors’ surgery launched in Nuneaton
Coventry Telegraph | 20 October 2009
AN INNOVATIVE walk-in doctor’s surgery has been launched at a health centre in Nuneaton.
It will allow patients to have an appointment even if they are registered with another surgery and is part of a government programme to increase access to family GP services.
George Eliot Hospital has become the first Acute [...]
CQC calls for review of out of hours GP services
Health Service Journal | 2 October 2009
A Care Quality Commission report has urged healthcare managers to review the quality of their out of hours services over fears that some private GP companies do not meet basic standards.
The CQC recommendation follows the death of 70-year-old David Gray last February, who was accidentally killed by a German doctor on [...]
Andy Burnham’s preferred bidder pledge questioned
Health Service Journal | BY REBECCA EVANS | 24 September 2009
Questions have been raised over the implications for competition and world class commissioning of health secretary Andy Burnham’s statement that the NHS is the “preferred provider” of services.
Previous Department of Health policy had been that “any willing provider” should be considered when commissioningservices.
But in a speech last [...]
World class commissioning: efficiency made a core competency
Health Service Journal | By Steve Ford | 23 September 2009
Assessing how effectively NHS commissioners spend their funding receives greater importance in the latest government guidance on world class commissioning.
The revised version of the world class commissioning assurance handbook says competency number 11 – ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of spending – will be assessed as a core [...]
NHS ‘must decentralise’
Health Service Journal | 22 September 2009
The NHS must be decentralised and freed from government control if it is to thrive, according to think tank Demos.
Its report says top graduates are spurning public service because of a “vicious circle” of falling status and low morale compounded by a “crippling” lack of trust.
And it says that if staff [...]
Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
Health Service Journal | By Chris Ham | 17 September 2009
Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets.
Policy makers, like generals, are always at risk of fighting the last war. So it is with the health reform programme [...]
Integrated care: pride of the community
Health Service Journal | BY DALONI CARLISLE | 28 August 2009
District nurses embody the high quality workforce envisioned by Darzi, but the sector lacks the commitment to attract new nurses to this 150 year old service, says Daloni Carlisle.
District nursing is changing to reflect a modern service.
The workforce is ageing and training has been slashed.
Renewed commitment to the [...]
Foundation trust pipeline is not blocked, insists DH
Health Service Journal | By David West | 20 August 2009
The Department of Health has denied claims the foundation trust pipeline is “on hold” despite a significant slowing of authorisations. Last year, there were 25 authorisations between January and August; this year there have been 10.
Monitor has said it is concerned about the lack [...]
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