Blog tagged as: Commissioning

8th January 2013
The NHS Commissioning Board has issued its ‘planning guidance’ to the 211 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that are to take control of local budgets from April. So what message does it send to CCGs?
18th December 2012 | Comments: 1
In the past few days, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have come several steps closer to taking control of £65 billion of NHS spending.
4th December 2012 | Comments: 1
The NHS Commissioning Board, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and providers need to be held to account, with plaudits if they excel, and consequences if they fall short of expected standards.
28th November 2012 | Comments: 2
Having spent the first half of the Parliament legislating for radical changes to the organisation of the NHS, the government now needs to focus on the mundane but much more important challenge of implementing and executing the service changes on which its record will ultimately depend.
7th November 2012 | Comments: 6
Clinically effective care and good patient experience are universally recognised as key elements of health care quality. But does one always go hand in hand with the other?
19th October 2012 | Comments: 10
What can we learn from service redesign in London? Chris Ham reflects on themes from our conference on progressing health care in the capital.
27th September 2012
Anna Dixon looks at the difficulties in setting objectives for the NHS and at how the NHS Commissioning Board can be effectively held accountable for £80 billion of public money.
15th August 2012 | Comments: 2
From 2013 we will hear a lot more about the Commissioning Outcomes Framework, which will be used to assess the performance of clinical commissioning groups.
9th August 2012 | Comments: 11
An emergency admission to hospital is a disruptive and unsettling experience, so surely we owe it to our patients to reduce the current variation between areas?
24th July 2012 | Comments: 1
If the government’s integration framework encourages innovations at scale and pace, England may yet steal a march on Scotland in the development of integrated care.
17th July 2012 | Comments: 16
There will be important differences between CCGs and PCTs. But in terms of the population size they cover, are they looking increasingly similar?
12th July 2012 | Comments: 4
Following Nicholas Timmins's book on the story of NHS reform, Anna Dixon looks at the events that led to the Act reaching the statute book.
28th June 2012 | Comments: 6
Looking back on the conference, Anna Dixon considers outstanding reform issues, including the difficult decisions that must be made around hospital reconfiguration.
20th June 2012 | Comments: 13
Chris Naylor asks what role CCGs can play to stop people with mental health losing out in the NHS.
14th June 2012 | Comments: 3
Chris Naylor looks at what the future shape of support arrangements for clinical commissioning groups will look like.
1st June 2012 | Comments: 15
Angela Coulter responds to the Department of Health's new consultation on 'No decision about me, without me'.
3rd May 2012 | Comments: 4
Will our trust in clinicians lend local decisions on restrictions to treatments a new kind of legitimacy? Or will such decisions erode our trust in our local doctor?
28th March 2012 | Comments: 10
How does the Health and Social Care Act differ from Lansley's original plans? And what challenges will the NHS face now as the Act is implemented?
2nd March 2012 | Comments: 10
Many aspects of the NHS reforms have given rise to debate, but one of the most controversial has been whether GPs should have responsibility for commissioning.
9th February 2012 | Comments: 2
As policy-makers focus on how integrated care can become a reality in the UK, integration of mental and physical health care should be a key part of the debate.

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