Cerner exec moves to NHS England
NHS England has appointed Cerner’s managing director for population health as the new national director for commissioning operations and information.
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NHS England to spend £33m on 111 tech
NHS England will spend £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; a year after England began its troubled launch of the service.
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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 originally planned.
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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 England considers its options for the future of the service.
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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 ‘at scale’ IT support and business intelligence services must pass separate tests from the NHS Commissioning Board next month.
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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 NHS in England ahead of an NHS Commissioning Board meeting tomorrow that will make decisions on their role.
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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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