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6 March 2012

CCGs unhappy with commissioning support

Clinical commissioners are unhappy with the NHSā€™ commissioning support programme and say they are being given little choice of provider,
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24 January 2012

NHS Alliance calls for input on NHS 111

Clinical commissioners feel a lack of engagement with NHS 111 which they believe is another example of top-down policy rather
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18 January 2011

HR framework limits commissioning scope

Money tied up in NHS reorganisation may leave GP commissioning consortia with little leaway to employ outside agencies, according to
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14 January 2011

Around 350 GP consortia likely

The number of GP commissioning consortia that will be formed as primary care trusts are scrapped is likely to be
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4 November 2010

BMA tells MPs to ‘save PCT managers’

Primary care trust staff who will be needed to make GP commissioning consortia work are already leaving the NHS, MPs
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5 October 2010

Lansley faces opposition to white paper

Growing concerns about the governmentā€™s plans to overhaul the NHS have been presented to health secretary Andrew Lansley ahead of
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28 July 2010

Dixon urges consortia to work quickly

The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as
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20 July 2010

Consortia will look to private sector IT

GP consortia are likely to look to the independent sector to meet their IT and information needs for commissioning, according
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8 June 2010

Discharge data getting worse – Alliance

The discharge summary target The NHS Alliance says hospital discharge information has got worse over the past three years, based
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24 November 2009

Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’

The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the governmentā€™s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices
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