Budget for GP IT lands with CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups will have responsibility for GP IT, but the funding arrangements for this new role remain unclear.
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NHS CB to build My Health portal
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking to create a new website called My Health where patients will be able to access their GP records, book appointments and order prescriptions.
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CCGs ‘likely to use CSSs in practice’
The NHS Confederation’s deputy chief executive has predicted that while clinical commissioning groups will be able to go “anywhere” to buy commissioning support services in theory, in practice “they won’t.”
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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: 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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Kelsey to be NHS CB information director
Tim Kelsey has been appointed as the national director for patients and information by the NHS Commissioning Board Authority.
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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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