CCG prescribing data: October to December 2013
Data for April 2008 to March 2013 is available by primary care trust (PCT). (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - May 2, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Woman's wisdom teeth operation left her in agony for SIX YEARS
Carol Russell, 46, from Birmingham, had a wisdom tooth removed in 2008, and the operations damaged a nerve so badly she needed several more operations. They made no difference. She was told the damage was permanent. She has since has received £15,000 from South Birmingham Primary Care Trust after the Dental Law Partnership negotiated an out- of-court settlement. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CCG prescribing data - October to December 2013
Data for April 2008 to March 2013 is available by primary care trust (PCT). The data is being made available via a tool called iView which will allow users to manipulate and extract data. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - April 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
One year on, new commissioning groups are an improvement on their predecessors but do not reflect the views of members, say GPs
1 Apr 2014
Less than half of GPs feel decisions made by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), the doctor-led bodies created by the NHS reforms to hold local health budgets, reflect their views, suggests a survey by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund. However, the research also suggests that three times as many GPs think they can influence the work of their CCG than could influence their predecessors – primary care trusts. The research published today on the anniversary of the enactment of the NHS reforms, provides the top-line results from a survey of GPs in six CCG locali...
Source: The King's Fund - Press - April 1, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Treasury claims £650m legacy debt pot
NHS England has admitted that £650m of provisions made by primary care trusts last year to pay for historic continuing healthcare claims will not be available to clinical commissioning groups. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 27, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Registering as an 'out of area' patient in the UK popular with young commuters and patients moving home
A pilot scheme allowing patients to visit GPs outside the area they live in was most popular among younger commuters and people who had moved house but did not want to change their GP, according to a new report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.The Department of Health's Choice of GP pilot scheme found that while demand overall was modest, participants were generally positive about the scheme and there was little sign of major increased cost to primary care trusts (PCTs) for providing the service. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
CCGs angered by NHS England instruction to set up £250m risk pool
Clinical commissioning group representatives have condemned a direction from NHS England saying they must contribute £250m to a national fund for “legacy debts” of primary care trusts. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 12, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Clinical Commissioning Groups in England serve too many masters
Clinical Commissioning Groups, the new family doctor-led bodies responsible for commissioning the largest chunk of healthcare in England, are accountable to too many masters with potentially competing agendas, concludes research published in the online journal BMJ Open.Clinical Commissioning Groups, or CCGs for short, are membership bodies that came on stream in April this year as part of a major restructuring of health and social care services in England. They replaced primary care trusts (PCTs). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
NHS atlas of variation in diagnostic services
The atlas is published by Public Health England working with NHS Right Care, other organisations and a wide range of expert clinicians. The maps provide information about primary care trusts and their successors where CCG level data is available. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - November 28, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
PCTs: forgotten forever?
End Game firmly believes that just because primary care trusts were bloodily sacrificed on the altar of clinical commissioning that doesn’t mean they should be forgotten.So we put in a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health asking how PCTs performed on their final year of quality, innovation productivity and prevention savings. QIPP has always been centrally reported, so we thought the department would probably have a fairly good idea of how they got on.Nope! (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 6, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Legacy of care claims liabilities threatens CCGs’ finances
Contingent liabilities in primary care trust accounts rocket to £661m (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - September 4, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
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Conflicting opinions among CCG leaders and GP members over who 'owns' new commissioning groups, report suggests
22 Jul 2013
New research into the early development of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), a cornerstone of the coalition government's NHS reforms, suggests that many GPs do not currently have a strong sense of ownership of their local CCGs.A distinctive feature of the 211 CCGs that took over responsibility for the majority of the budget for commissioning health care services in the English NHS from 1 April 2013 is that they are membership organisations designed to harness the clinical expertise of their local GP members. Handing greater control of budgets to GPs was a key element of...
Source: The King's Fund - Press - July 21, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
