Commissioning

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21 April 2009

Talking hands

SignTranslate Hospital won the Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, sponsored by Quicksilva. Sandra
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16 April 2009

King’s Fund launches primary care inquiry

The King’s Fund has launched an 18-month inquiry into primary care in England that will aim to produce a set of measures
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7 April 2009

NHS launches cancer toolkit

The NHS has formally launched a Cancer Commissioning Toolkit to help local NHS managers to develop better cancer-fighting strategies based
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12 March 2009

Doc ratings site moves into charity work

The controversial website iwantgreatcare, which allows patients to rate their doctors, is expanding into other areas of NHS work, in
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9 March 2009

NHS Brent gets PBC support

The first project under the Department of Health’s practice-based commissioning support framework has begun work. Clinicians and managers in NHS
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5 March 2009

DH launches new vision for PBC

Practice-based commissioners are entitled to receive accurate and timely financial and management data and analysis, according to the Department of
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5 March 2009

NPSA Never Events policy welcomed

A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing
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18 February 2009

Information barrier to PBC

Poor quality data and financial information remains a barrier to the successful implementation of practice-based commissioning, according to the National
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10 February 2009

First day of the PROMs

The Department of Health has issued instructions to the NHS on the action that needs to be taken to deliver
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9 February 2009

DH and London move on shared services

NHS chief executive David Nicholson is encouraging the health service to make greater use of shared services as London’s primary
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