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15 June 2012

CCGs ‘likely to use CSSs in practice’

The NHS Confederation’s deputy chief executive has predicted that while clinical commissioning groups will be able to go “anywhere” to
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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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21 March 2012

NHS to be ‘liberated’ by Easter

The Health and Social Care Bill has cleared its final Parliamentary hurdle, with doctors welcoming amendments on confidentiality, but opponents
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7 March 2011

Managers focused on cuts not reform

Senior managers are more worried about balancing their finances than grappling with the latest round of NHS reforms, an NHS
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24 January 2011

NPfIT failures have left NHS IT “stuck”

A new report by the NHS Confederation has criticised NHS technology for being similar to the “pre-industrial handicraft industry”.
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13 January 2011

Many blocks on the road to revolution

Responses to the Information Revolution consultation have registered support for its vision of putting information at the heart of the
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3 January 2011

NHS faces ‘defining year’

The NHS is facing a ‘defining year’ in which it may need to make even bigger efficiency savings than so-far
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19 November 2010

Call centres urged for GP appointments

GP appointment booking could be centralised in future with national or regional call centres used instead of local practice lines,
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13 October 2010

‘Save expertise’: NHS Confederation

Urgent action is needed to retain good staff working for primary care trusts and to preserve organisational memory as the
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25 June 2010

Treasury frets about GP commissioning

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted that the Treasury is concerned abut the government’s plans to hand secondary care
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