Four CSUs create ‘alliance’
Four commissioning support units have formed a “strategic alliance” to help them gain a place on NHS England’s new commissioning support lead provider framework.
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Commissioning support framework scoped
NHS England has released a draft scope of the commissioning support lead provider framework with the full tender to be launched on 3 March.
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Commissioners get new PCD powers
Commissioners have been given new powers to process ‘necessary’ patient confidential data for invoice validation, following a decision by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Rising star: Natalie Liao
Natalie Liao is not yet 30, yet she already has an impressive record of education and professional achievement behind her. She talks to Lis Evenstad about her present job at a commissioning support unit.
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Three CSUs explore ‘partnership’
North West London, South London and Kent and Medway commissioning support units are exploring a three-way partnership to secure a place on the ‘lead provider framework agreement’ being developed by NHS England.
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UnitedHealth UK rebrands as Optum
Another CSU on the brink of extinction
Ashes to ASHs
The Department of Health’s response to Caldicott2 confirms that patient confidential data cannot be used for commissioning. EHI news editor Rebecca Todd explores the implications.
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Rising star: Tawanda Maposa
Tawanda Maposa is a psychiatric nurse working as an IT manager in a commissioning support unit; two jobs that are not as different as you might think, he tells Lis Evenstad.
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17 orgs tender for central care record
Seventeen health and social care organisations across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull have gone out to tender for a joint central care record system.
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