Commissioning

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17 May 2006

NHS Direct announces cutbacks consultation

NHS Direct has launched a three month consultation with staff on proposals that will cut around 1,000 existing jobs. Reasons
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2 May 2006

New version of C+B supports ‘extended’ choice

GPs are expected to offer patients the option to choose from a national menu of NHS hospitals and private providers
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18 April 2006

PCTs urged to move C+B from centres to practices

Primary care trusts are being encouraged to dismantle referral management centres that handle Choose and Book so that the work
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28 March 2006

PHCSG urges ‘extreme caution’ on QoF data use

White paper proposals to use Quality and Outcomes Framework data to make commissioning decisions should only be followed with extreme
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27 March 2006

Two new PCT reporting tools launched

Two new web-based reporting tools to help primary care trusts and GPs deliver practice–based commissioning have been launched. Medical data firm
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24 March 2006

NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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22 March 2006

Middlesbrough PCT offers reporting software for free

Middlesbrough PCT has developed a browser-based statistical reporting system for Practice Based Commissioning and is making it available for free
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21 March 2006

GP2GP record transfer is NPfIT’s ‘most wanted’

GP2GP patient record transfer is the service that GPs would most like to see delivered by the National Programme for
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7 March 2006

Rant or rate?

A NHS-backed social software project is helping patients give feedback online directly to healthcare organisations, finds Fiona Barr.
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20 February 2006

DES payments to GPs for IM&T work unveiled

Preparation for the National Programme for IT could earn practices £1.33 per patient next year under the new payment scheme for
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