BMA to debate CSS ‘outsourcing’ fears
Doctors are to consider calling for the outsourcing of commissioning support services to be halted at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting this month.
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NHS back to 27 regional offices
Plans for 50 local offices to replace primary care trusts and strategic health authorities have been cut by almost 50% under plans revealed by the NHS Commissioning Board today.
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EHI PC survey finds backing for support
Two out of three clinical commissioning group leaders are happy with the commissioning support arrangements that have been made for them so far, according to an EHI Primary Care survey.
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EHI PC survey reveals funding fears
Uncertainty about future funding for NHS IT and the future direction of NHS informatics are the biggest IT concerns for clinical commissioning groups, according to an exclusive survey by EHI Primary Care.
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EHI PC survey: shaky support?
Commissioning support services are emerging as essential but controversial elements of the new commissioning regime. Fiona Barr canvasses views.
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EHI PC survey: show us the money
GPs leading the government’s commissioning reforms have high hopes for IT; but wonder where the leadership and money is going to come from. Fiona Barr reports.
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GPs fear ‘outsourcing’ of commissioning
Commissioning support will be a defacto outsourced service by 2016, one of the leaders of the BMA’s GP committee has warned.
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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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Grant links IT to CCG success
The chair of the NHS Commissioning Board has said that the best clinical commissioning groups will be those with the best information systems, at a conference that focused on where those systems will come from.
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