NHS IC to provide data services to CCGs

The NHS Information Centre is looking provide national ‘at scale’ data services to clinical commissioning groups.
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NHS CB’s 27 area teams detailed

The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out the areas to be covered by its local offices, following the abolition
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DH to help CCGs pick support services

The government is to provide clinical commissioning groups with more help on choosing commissioning support services, following criticism that CCGs
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BMA to debate CSS ‘outsourcing’ fears

Doctors are to consider calling for the outsourcing of commissioning support services to be halted at the BMA's Annual Representative
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NHS back to 27 regional offices

Plans for 50 local offices to replace primary care trusts and strategic health authorities have been cut by almost 50%
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EHI PC survey finds backing for support

Two out of three clinical commissioning group leaders are happy with the commissioning support arrangements that have been made for
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EHI PC survey reveals funding fears

Uncertainty about future funding for NHS IT and the future direction of NHS informatics are the biggest IT concerns for
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LMCs renew attack on NHS 111

GP representatives have expressed “serious concerns” about the roll-out of NHS 111 and claimed the government is ignoring lessons from
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GPs fear ‘outsourcing’ of commissioning

Commissioning support will be a defacto outsourced service by 2016, one of the leaders of the BMA’s GP committee has
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DH publishes child health requirements

The Department of Health has set out the information requirements for child health information systems in the new NHS.
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