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11 June 2012

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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31 May 2012

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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30 May 2012

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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29 May 2012

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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28 May 2012

EHI PC survey: shaky support?

Commissioning support services are emerging as essential but controversial elements of the new commissioning regime. Fiona Barr canvasses views.
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28 May 2012

EHI PC survey: show us the money

GPs leading the government’s commissioning reforms have high hopes for IT; but wonder where the leadership and money is going
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23 May 2012

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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15 May 2012

Checkpoint 2 takes out more CSSs

Three NHS commissioning support services have been scrapped after failing the latest 'checkpoint' review by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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30 April 2012

Support services face IT and BI exams

Commissioning support services that want to deliver ‘at scale’ IT support and business intelligence services must pass separate tests from
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25 April 2012

Grant links IT to CCG success

The chair of the NHS Commissioning Board has said that the best clinical commissioning groups will be those with the
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