POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 8 AUGUST 2012 Strong views from NICE chair on commissioners withholding NICE-advised treatments NICE chair Professor Sir Michael Rawlins suggested in an HSJ article last week that commissioners who fail to implement NICE guidance on adoption of new technologies should face judicial review. Read more Share this article
8 AUGUST 2012 Another big fine for NHS trust caught out with poor information governance Torbay Care Trust is a facing a fine of £175k for putting sensitive details of over 1,000 staff on the Trust website. Share this article
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 8 AUGUST 2012 Local Authority Health Scrutiny - consultation The 26-page DH consultation focuses on how disputes over service reconfiguration plans are handled by local authorities once they take over public health budgets from April 2013. Share this article
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 8 AUGUST 2012 Monitor consults on the new provider licence Monitor published a consultation document on a new licensing regime covering the NHS independent and third sector providers. The licence will be one of the main ways Monitor protects patient's interests as it regulates providers of NHS funded services in England. Share this article
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 8 AUGUST 2012 CCG Collaboration Framework published A draft of A Framework for Collaborative Commissioning between CCGs was published by the NHSCB last Friday. The guidance highlights the benefits of and options for CCGs collaborating to share contracts with providers and risk sharing. Share this article
POSTED BY SIMON ELSEGOOD | 8 AUGUST 2012 CCG uncertainty about working with CSS At the end of May an NHS Clinical Commissioner survey of 141 CCGs found that 64% of them wanted more advice about how to procure commissioning support and that 29% of groups did not know the 'pattern' of commissioning support they would want once they become statutory bodies when PCTs are abolished in April. Share this article
POSTED BY TANIA RICHARDS | 8 AUGUST 2012 Department of Health publishes draft guidance on duties of health and wellbeing boards The Department said JSNAs and JHWSs would set out local needs and agree priorities to underpin local commissioning plans. The guidance which will be subject to an eight-week consultation period will... Share this article
8 AUGUST 2012 Don't get left with the bill: Get the employment status of GPs right It is important to establish the correct employment status for any worker from the outset. Wrongly identifying a worker as self-employed when they should have been treated as employed could leave the CCG facing large tax and National Insurance liabilities. Share this article
8 AUGUST 2012 Freedom of information - here to stay! Disclosure and freedom of information is set to be a big issue for commissioners and NHS organisation. Read more... Share this article
POSTED BY JENNY BERESFORD-JONES | 7 AUGUST 2012 Could you spot a rigged bid? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently published guidelines to assist contracting authorities in the detection and prevention of bid-rigging and other anti-competitive behaviour by bidders. The key recommendations in the recent guidance are... Share this article
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