Posted on January 21, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning |
Health Service Journal | 21 JANUARY 2010 | BY NICK GOLDING Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told. York University professor of health economics Andrew Street suggested that the Department of Health should fund hospitals directly, as part of his [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Conservative |
Healthcare Republic | GP newspaper | By Richard Staines | 10 December 2009 As the BMA launches its general election manifesto, Richard Staines looks at the political battle lines being drawn. The BMA is on a collision course with the Conservatives over plans to hand GPs control of NHS commissioning. The Conservatives, favourites to win the [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Privatisation |
Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 24 November 2009 Switching to the NHS being the ‘preferred provider’ may increase private provision in the health service rather than reduce it, says a DH spokesperson. The claims come after newspaper reports of a backlash from business leaders and politicians against the Government’s decision to issue strict new guidelines [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Commissioner, News stories | Tags: Aetna, Commissioning, FESC, PBC, PHD |
Pulse | Focus on…..Social Enterprise | 17 November 2009 Dr David Morris and Dee Kyne explain how they remortgaged their practice to kick-start the process of PBC innovation in their area When I came into general practice in 2000, I found it immensely frustrating that patients would come back time and time again with the [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Commissioner, News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Commissioning, PBC |
Pulse | Focus on…..Social Enterprise | 17 November 2009 Dr Bill Tamkin explains how becoming a social enterprise helped his PBC cluster get ahead in the game Turning our PBC group into a social enterprise company has given us more clout with providers and the PCT. Manchester Practice-Based Commissioning (South) Ltd grew out of our [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: Commissioner, Social enterprise | Tags: Aetna, CIC, Commissioning, PHD |
Aetna UK | accessed 11 November 2009 Aetna UK is dedicated to supporting PCTs and other commissioning authorities to improve patient outcomes and reduce overall costs. Aetna UK combines UK-based operations with U.S. expertise in order to customize solutions for its clients. Being ‘commissioners’ ourselves, we truly understand what it takes to maximise health gain within [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning |
Health Service Journal | By Steve Ford | 5 November 2009 The chair of a London primary care trust has proposed scrapping PCTs. He said giving their commissioning role to local authorities would be an “excellent” way of reducing bureaucracy and bringing health services closer to the public. NHS Hammersmith and Fulham chair Jeff Zitron [...]
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Posted on September 10, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning |
Health Service Journal | BY JAMES ILLMAN | 10 September 2009 London’s boroughs are on the verge of sealing a deal to dramatically boost integration between councils and the NHS, Local Government Chronicle has learned. Plans for a “health integration board” of 15 councils and their respective primary care trusts are being finalised by London Councils and NHS London in [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2009. Filed under: Journals | Tags: Commissioning, PBC |
Health Service Journal | By Helen Crump | 16 July 2009 GPs could be given the opportunity to bypass primary care trusts and hand commissioning to private sector organisations under Conservative plans. Shadow health minister Mark Simmonds told HSJ that using companies such as Humana would be an option where GPs did not want to [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2009. Filed under: FESC, News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | 20 May 2009 More than half of PCTs used private companies or consultants to help commission services in 2008/9, a GP newspaper investigation has found. In addition, a fifth of PCTs use private companies to develop, write or improve their strategic plans, the investigation shows. Data obtained from 64 PCTs under the [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2009. Filed under: Integrated care, News stories | Tags: Commissioning, PBC |
Healthcare Republic | 20-May-09 Winners of the new NHS category of Prince Charles’s Integrated Health Awards have received presentations from the royal. The winner of the GP practice category was Patford House Surgery in Calne, Wiltshire, which devised an imaginative project to tackle childhood obesity through local primary schools. It invited 200 Year 4 children [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2009. Filed under: FESC, Journals | Tags: Commissioning, Privatisation |
Health Services Journal | BY HELEN MOONEY | 1 NOVEMBER, 2007 The Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners has finally arrived. Launched by the Department of Health at the start of last month after several delays, the government hopes that the framework will usher in a change in the shape and strength of commissioning in the [...]
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