Forty CSOs to support new NHS
The majority of primary care trust clusters are planning to set up their own commissioning support organisations for clinical commissioning groups, it has been reported.
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Focus on: Kent and Medway HIS
In the first of a series of articles looking at health informatics services, Rebecca Todd speaks to Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service about its business intelligence service.
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CSOs need CCG support to survive – Hakin
NHS commissioning support organisations will need to demonstrate they have clinical commissioning groups prepared to buy from them if they are to survive after April 2013, the Department of Health has said.
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NHS Direct explores role in new NHS
NHS Direct may offer GP appointment booking to commissioning consortia as part of its plans to work with the new bodies running primary care.
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PCT ends United Health contract early
NHS Northamptonshire has ended its contract for commissioning services with UnitedHealth UK a year early, the primary care trust has confirmed.
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Dixon urges consortia to work quickly
The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as possible. Dr Mike Dixon, chair of the NHS Alliance, whose membership includes PCT managers and clinicians, said time was of the essence. He told a meeting of 180 GPs at a practice-based commissioning event: “As […]
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GP consortia to start work this year
The Department of Health has spelled out its plans for the future of commissioning in a consultation that gives the NHS Commissioning Board a role in setting data and IT standards while predicting that a market will develop in commissioning support.
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Consortia will look to private sector IT
GP consortia are likely to look to the independent sector to meet their IT and information needs for commissioning, according to the NHS Alliance.
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Insider view: Fiona Barr
Hello Goodbye
Lyn Whitfield reports from Liverpool on an NHS Confederation conference pre-occupied by the entrance and exit of GP commissioning and primary care trusts.
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