NHS Change Day 2015 is up and running and the pledges of support have been pouring in. A 12-hour Changeathon webcast is currently live and running from 7am to 7pm where individuals, teams and campaigns across the NHS are talking about what they are doing for Change Day. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens describes […]
My father died four months ago. He slipped away quietly late one evening (just like him to go without making a fuss) and none of his family was with him. I never got to read ‘I Must Go Down to the Sea Again’ for a final time, or tell him that he did well, that […]
Gail Maund gives a mother’s view on Integrated Personal Commissioning and why it can change the life of her disabled daughter and of her family: As a mother of a disabled child, it’s really exciting to hear that my CCG in Hampshire is involved with the new Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme and is committed to […]
Monitor and NHS England today report that 210 out of 240 NHS trusts and foundation trusts (88 percent of all NHS providers) will move to the new voluntary tariff option (the ‘Enhanced Tariff Option’) for 2015/16. They will gain their share of the improved tariff funding made available to the NHS in December’s Autumn Statement, […]
On Friday 27 February, the latest Commissioning for Value packs were published – Integrated Care Pathways packs – to add to the ‘Pathway on a Page’ data packs published for CCGs in November 2014. The new packs focus on integrated care pathways and complex patients. These packs are designed to support you with local discussions […]
Greater Manchester and NHS England have today (Friday 27 February) announced groundbreaking plans around the future of health and social care with a signed memorandum agreeing to bring together health and social care budgets – a combined sum of £6bn. This trailblazing move sees NHS England, 12 NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, 15 NHS providers and […]
Britain has a long and proud tradition of leading medical innovation. The smallpox vaccine invented by Edward Jenner is said to have saved more lives than have been lost in all wars. Sir Ronald Ross won the first British Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for his discovery that malaria was carried by mosquitoes. Alexander […]
NHS England has today (Thursday) announced the organisations that have been approved to join the new Commissioning Support Lead Provider Framework, following a rigorous procurement process. The organisations from across the NHS and private sector have successfully met the tough quality and value for money tests to deliver the best support services to Clinical Commissioning […]
Paul Baumann, Chief Financial Officer at NHS England said: “Monitor will shortly be announcing the results of their consultation on the 2015/16 tariff. They will report details showing that while only a minority of providers and CCGs responded negatively, the relevant response threshold by market share was reached. Since the overall NHS funding totals for […]
The Pathways on a Page packs released today are the latest in a series of Commissioning for Value support offers for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The first packs – published in October 2013 – contained information on a range of improvement opportunities, helping each CCG identify where it could focus its efforts, by comparing spend […]