Commissioning

Comment & analysis

• The wrong time for a radical reduction in NHS management? | Chris Naylor

  Chris Naylor considers the potential loss of managerial talent as new designs for the NHS Commissioning Board are revealed.

• Clinical commissioning groups: Does size matter?

  Paul Zollinger-Read considers whether it's the size of clinical commissioning groups that counts, or their ability to collaborate. (Blog, 3 Jan 2012)

• Three challenges facing clinical commissioning groups

  Chris Ham asks what can clinical commissioning groups learn from medical practices in California. (Blog, Chris Ham, 12 Dec 2011)

• Is the GP contract a barrier to integrated care?

  Anna Dixon discusses the need to rethink how we commission and contract with primary care if the ambitions of integrated care are to be realised. (Blog, 4 Nov 2011)

• The growing complexity of NHS commissioning: A recipe for confusion and conflict?

  As the NHS Commissioning Board commences a period of shadow running, Nick Goodwin asks whether changes to clinical commissioning are simply reinventing the wheel.

• Will NHS leaders rise to the challenge of an integrated care system?

  In his blog, Chris Ham argues that as the NHS is facing growing demands from an ageing population, clinicians and organisations must work together to meet the needs of service users.

• What are the lessons from the USA for clinical commissioning groups in the English NHS?

  Chris Ham and Paul Zollinger-Read explore the lessons learnt from the USA for English NHS clincial commissioning groups. (Article, 15 Sep 2011)

• Who's paying for mental health services for young people?

  Sarah Jonas asks what effect will large scale cuts to local authority social care budgets have on child and adolescent mental health services. (Blog, 1 Sep 2011)

• Health and social care reforms: What next for the NHS billions?

  David Buck argues that the real question about NHS funding lies not in whether it increases, but in how it is allocated. (Blog, David Buck, 18 Aug 2011)

• How different will life be under the NHS Commissioning Board?

  Chris Naylor asks if the NHS Commissioning Board will succeed in liberating NHS workers or is it simply reinventing existing structures. (Blog, Chris Naylor, 11 Jul 2011)

• The Health and Social Care Bill: Next steps for clinical commissioning

  Paul Zollinger-Read asks if the pause in the Health and Social Care Bill been welcomed by clinical commissioning groups or do they just want to get on with the NHS reforms? (Blog, Paul Zollinger-Read, 11 Jul 2011)

• Hospital doctors – the reformed NHS needs you!

  With announced revisions of the NHS reforms, hospital doctors are being given an opportunity to become involved in clinical commissioning. (Blog, Catherine Foot, 23 Jun 2011)

• Anticipating NHS reforms: Back to the Future?

  Richard Humphries asks, when it comes to health and social care reforms, can a simulation exercise help us deal with the challenges we might face? (Blog, Richard Humphries, 20 Jun 2011)

• Privatisation or diversification: What do the changes to the NHS reforms mean for the private and voluntary sectors?

  Some opposition to the Health Bill focused on the privatisation of the NHS. Anna Dixon explains what the NHS reforms will truly mean for the private and voluntary sectors. (Blog, Anna Dixon, 16 Jun 2011)

• Are we looking at reform through the wrong end of the telescope?

  Should the Health and Social Care Bill be focusing on the reform of GPs as providers instead of on GPs as commissioners? Candace Imison takes a look at the changes to NHS reforms. (Blog, Candace Imison, 15 Jun 2011)

• The King's Fund response to the publication of the NHS Future Forum report

  Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, strongly welcomed the findings of the NHS Future Forum today, particularly the emphasis on integration. (Press release, 13 June 2011)

• Health reforms will weaken NHS accountability warns The King’s Fund

  A new report from The King’s Fund warns that the coalition government’s reforms risk reducing accountability in the health system, potentially undermining the performance of key NHS organisations as a result. (Press release, 1 Jun 2011)

• Holding the NHS to account

  As the government’s listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill draws to a close, has the government really listened? And if so, how will any new system of commissioning be held accountable? (Blog, Jo Maybin, 1 Jun 2011)

• Coalition government and health: one year on

  Before the election result was announced just over a year ago, few people guessed we would be governed by a coalition of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. So what has been the impact on the process of reforming the NHS? (Blog, Anna Dixon, 16 May 2011)

• Achieving high-quality care at manageable costs: a lesson for GP consortia

  Lessons from the States are often relegated to the ‘too different to be useful’ box, but on closer inspection there are many similarities between American medical groups and the proposed GP consortia. (Blog, Paul Zollinger-Read, 15 Apr 2011)