Syndicate
Register or Log In
HSJ Primary Care
West Cheshire clinical commissioners set out clinical priorites
PERFORMANCE: The West Cheshire clinical commissioning group has set out plans to focus on six priority areas over the coming half-decade, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and mental health.
CCG: East Cheshire Trust dependent on ‘significant reconfiguration’
STRUCTURE: East Cheshire Trust will require “significant reconfiguration” to maintain financial stability, clinical commissioners have stated.
North Somerset failing on C diff
PERFORMANCE: NHS North Somerset failed targets for Clostridium difficile and MRSA during November.
Newham hospice awarded national accreditation
PERFORMANCE: Richard House Children’s Hospice, in Newham, has been awarded a national accreditation for service standards.
Commissioners overspending at Newcastle FT by £10.5m
FINANCE: North of Tyne commissioners are overspending on their contract with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust by £10.5m.
SHIP cluster struggles on prescribing savings
FINANCE: The Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth primary care trust cluster had collectively identified £69.9m worth of cost savings, just under its target of £71.7m.
Stockton-On-Tees health centre moving
STRUCTURE: A primary care health centre in Stockton-On-Tees is to move.
Hampshire reports pressure on acute contracts
FINANCE: The Hampshire health system is reporting a surplus, having released almost all its contingency reserves for the first three quarters of 2011-12.
Isle of Wight judged as 'performing'
PERFORMANCE: The Isle of Wight was the only primary care trust in its cluster to be assessed as “performing” by the South Central strategic health authority.
Southampton PCT forced to find non-recurrent savings
FINANCE: Southampton primary care trust is set to achieve its surplus target of £1.9m for the year, but is overspending on acute services and is only mitigating this through non-recurrent means.
Faculty of Public Health calls for withdrawal of bill
The Faculty of Public Health has joined the growing list of professional bodies calling for the Health Bill to be withdrawn.
Leadership Academy highlights gender discrimination in NHS
The NHS Leadership Academy is compiling data on the proportion of NHS board members and clinical leaders who are women in order to expose inequalities.
Exclusive: community trusts dispute asset transfers with PCTs and DH
Plans to transfer NHS properties to community service providers have stalled amid an ongoing dispute between trusts and the Department of Health, and claims of irrational behaviour by commissioners.
Government risks going backwards on integration, warn MPs
Financial pressures and the government’s reforms risk the level of integration between health and social care actually diminishing, despite ministers restating their commitment to the policy, according to MPs.
DH to issue guidance on terms and conditions for public health directors
Government guidance on how directors of public health and their staff should be employed will extend as far as stating their terms and conditions and how they should be managed, according to ministers.
Revealed: CCG funding gulf could 'destablise services'
The first analysis of the budgets set to be given to clinical commissioning groups shows huge variation and has sparked concern about services being destabilised by a shortage of cash.
Revealed: the CCGs with largest and smallest budgets
HSJ can reveal the clinical commissioning groups set to take on the largest and smallest budgets under the government’s NHS reforms.
Lord Owen: Lords have failed to alter the Health Bill
The House of Lords has failed to make significant changes to the Health Bill, the influential crossbencher Lord Owen has said, calling on the prime minister to scrap the legislation before it becomes law.
South Essex PCT cluster tenders for NHS 111
COMMERCIAL: The NHS South West Essex and South East Essex primary care trust cluster is seeking expresions of interest from providers interested in providing an NHS 111 and out of hours service.
SHIP cluster agrees new GP service at community hospital
STRUCTURE: A GP service will be set up at Fareham Community Hospital in Hampshire as the “most suitable option” for providing primary care services in the area.
Pages
Comments
Tagadelic
benefits approach
benefits frameworks
benefits management
Benefits Realisation
book review
business case
Care Pathway
Clinical Engagement
collaboration
Commissioning innovation
ECP
employee engagement
GP Commissioning
health funding
Innovation
NHS
performance management
Project Management
RoI
Service Transformation
Social Audit
social care
Social Enterprise
SROI
workforce design
Recent Additions and Updates
It's easy to assume that all of our decisions are purely rational, but they rarely if ever are rational. And they always have consequences for others, usually consequences that we think we could not have predicted.
The Ten Commandments apply just as firmly in each aspect of our daily life as they apply to the whole of our lives. I'm a management consultant, and on this page I explain how the first five of the Ten Commandments apply to management consulting and professional services.
Most healthcare providers, in UK the same as everywhere else, get paid for each activity they do. If someone needs care, they get paid. If someone is well, they don’t. So there isn’t much incentive (for the healthcare provider) to keep people well, even though it is much better for the person, much better for the nation, and much lower cost. Minney.org Ltd is working with one CCG to generate enthusiasm and involvement, and the results are fairly successful….
Share this page
The Consultants
The Social Return Company is an association of like-minded specialists with a great track record of engaging stakeholders, instituting common-sense measures, and reporting to invigorate. Our mission is that people enjoy what they do, and we achieve this by supporting them to measure and report, and recognise what they achieve. Some organisations have found this very valuable for PR/marketing, or contract negotiation.see http://minney.org/about-us-media-kit