Commissioning

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20 April 2011

UnitedHealth quits GP provision

US healthcare giant UnitedHealth has decided to pull out of providing primary care services in order to focus on providing
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18 January 2011

Humana to pull out of UK

US private healthcare firm Humana is to pull out of the NHS commissioning support market and wind down its UK
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18 January 2011

Dorrell criticises ‘surprise’ shake-up

The Commons’ health committee has criticised the government’s approach to implementing the latest round of NHS reorganisation and reform.
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6 December 2010

PSNC launches PharmaBase

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has launched a web based platform to help simplify record-keeping, claim payment from primary
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25 November 2010

Healthcare atlas maps NHS variations

A new NHS Atlas of Variation has laid bare the regional variations in treatment that patients receive based on what
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11 November 2010

Sollis brings Clarity to commissioners

Data analysis specialist Sollis has integrated risk stratification and predictive modelling software into its Clarity product suite.
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5 November 2010

East Midlands chooses McKesson InterQual

The NHS East Midlands Procurement and Commissioning Transformation has selected McKesson’s InterQual to provide evidence-based decision support to the region’s
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4 November 2010

BMA tells MPs to ‘save PCT managers’

Primary care trust staff who will be needed to make GP commissioning consortia work are already leaving the NHS, MPs
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1 November 2010

PCTI developing GP automation system

Document management specialists PCTI have announced that they are developing a new system to help GP practices in England respond
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26 October 2010

Doctors sceptical about health reforms

A new survey commissioned by The King’s Fund with Doctors.net.uk has revealed deep scepticism among doctors about the government’s proposed
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