Barbara Hakin

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Cerner exec moves to NHS England

NHS England has appointed Cernerā€™s managing director for population health as the new national director for commissioning operations and information.
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NHS England to spend Ā£33m on 111 tech

NHS England will spend Ā£33m on re-procuring technical elements of NHS 111, a board paper has revealed.
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Scotland live with 111

Scotland has gone live with NHS 111 as the new contact number for the Scottish health advice helpline NHS 24;
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Last 111 sites live in February

The last NHS 111 sites are due to go live with the service in February 2014, nearly a year after
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NHS 111 procurements on hold

Clinical commissioning groups have been told not to agree any NHS 111 contracts to start before April 2015 while NHS
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Checkpoint 2 takes out more CSSs

Three NHS commissioning support services have been scrapped after failing the latest 'checkpoint' review by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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Support services face IT and BI exams

Commissioning support services that want to deliver ā€˜at scaleā€™ IT support and business intelligence services must pass separate tests from
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DH expects 25-35 CSOs in England

The Department of Health has estimated that there will be between 25 and 35 commissioning support organisations in the reorganised
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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
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