Husband and wife take over at troubled £1bn hospital trust
STRUCTURE: A husband-and-wife team of former primary care trust leaders have been appointed as interim chief executive and turnaround director of the huge and troubled Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - June 14, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Funding confusion 'directly caused' vulnerable woman's death
A woman with complex mental health problems committed suicide after funding decision errors by a primary care trust and local authority saw her prematurely removed from a care home. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 29, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Absurdism and the CSU project
End Game will not hear it said that the new NHS commissioning system is exactly the same as the old one, except with less money and a few doctors getting in the way for the first year or so.Commissioning support units, for example, are nothing like anything that existed in the earlier age of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.Ample evidence of this is provided by NHS South CSU, whose new website features an exciting use of absurdist principles on its “meet the (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
After the transition, the anticlimax
The transition is complete – primary care trusts and strategic health authorities are dead, making way for a clinically led insurgency that will sweep through the NHS like a wildfire of transparency, patient-centredness and integrated working.So get ready! Or, if you live in Wigan, don’t.The town’s new commissioning group tweeted this week: “It’s the second day of the new NHS and it’s already business as (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 4, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Labour warns over 'unfair' public health budget split
The handover of responsibility for public health from primary care trusts to local authorities could be a “car crash”, the Labour party has warned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 2, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
HSJ Live: First working day of the post-PCT world
All the latest news on the day that local area teams and clinical commissioning groups officially take over from strategic health authorities and primary care trusts. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 2, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Confused about Clinical Commissioning Groups?
As of April 1 2013, more than 200 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have replaced the existing Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). CCGs are GP-led organisations, with statutory responsibility for the commissioning of local NHS services.
CCGs will have the freedom to commission services for the (Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News)
Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society News - April 1, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Anxiety UK urge new commissioners to learn from past funding mistakes on mental health
The country’s leading anxiety disorders charity, Anxiety UK, is calling for the new GP-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to learn from their predecessors’ past mistakes when it comes to funding mental health services. The new CCGs will come into effect in April replacing Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and GP-led consortia will commission mental health services [...] (Source: ANXIETY UK News)
Source: ANXIETY UK News - March 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Care commissioning process is too laborious, report concludes
Source: BMJ, Nuffield Trust
Area: News
BMJ News features a story on a report by the Nuffield Trust which highlights the findings of an in-depth study of commissioning for people with long-term conditions. The study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) Programme. The Nuffield Trust carried out a 15 month (November 2010 to January 2012) study of commissioning practice in three high-performing primary care trust (PCT) areas (Calderdale, Somerset and the Wirral). The authors carried out detailed observation around what the trusts actually did around co...
Source: NeLM - News - March 1, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Aston University research gives insights into medicines adherence problems
Source: Aston University
Area: News
The Medicines Research Unit at Aston University has announced the results of a study aimed at establishing the extent of non-adherence to prescribed medication within the adult population of the Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT) within four treatment groups - dyslipidaemia, type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and prophylaxis of thrombosis.
For the study, more than one million anonymised individual prescription issues were analysed, and just over 7,000 patient questionnaires were administered, in two mailings. Seven focus groups were conducted and a full ...
Source: NeLM - News - February 19, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Offender health care IT services operating model
Securing excellence in IT services operating model for offender health care provides a system which ensures the safe transfer of offender health IT from primary care trusts (PCTs) to the NHS CB so there is clarity for all stakeholders, safety for patients and business continuity for the NHS. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 19, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
EXCLUSIVE: NHS shake-up hampers oversight of serious incidents
Loss of staff in the current NHS reorganisation has left primary care trusts struggling to review thousands of serious incidents before their abolition in April, HSJ has learned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - February 14, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Outlook for NHS and social care pessimistic as financial squeeze bites
14 Feb 2013
Pessimism is growing in the NHS and social care as local leaders respond to mounting financial pressures, according to the latest quarterly monitoring report on service performance published by The King's Fund.For the first time, the report includes a survey of directors of adult social services in English local authorities alongside its usual survey of NHS finance directors. Both surveys suggest that the financial squeeze is beginning to have an impact on quality and access to services in some parts of the country. A third of NHS finance directors report that the quality o...
Source: The King's Fund - Press - February 14, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Commissioning Board publishes operating framework for dental services
From April 2013, the NHS CB will take commissioning responsibility from primary care trusts for all NHS dental services: primary, community and secondary, including dental out of hours and urgent care.
This will include commissioning dental services provided in high street dental practices, community dental services, and dental services at general hospitals and dental hospitals.
The NHS CB will commission NHS dental services based on the local oral health needs assessment which will be developed by public health teams in local authorities and will help determine the needs of local populations. More .......
Source: NHS Networks - February 13, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Dental commissioning statistics, December 2012
These statistics show units of dental activity (UDAs) commissioned by primary care trusts in England. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 12, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
