Latest blogs on procurement law

The NHSCB's single operating model sets out how the Board will directly contract GP practices pharmacy and ophthalmology services from April next year when it will take on many of the current functions of PCTs with regard to the commissioning of primary care health services as well as some nationally-based functions currently undertaken by the DH. 

The Local Area Teams pack confirms that there will be 27 LATs while the Clinical Senates pack confirms that there will be 12 senates. Read more...

Sharing information lawfully and properly has to be done within a tight governance and regulated framework. Get it wrong and patients will lose confidence in the system and commissioners will face public pressure and penalties from the Information Commissioner.

A comprehensive new CCG learning and support web tool has been published. It is designed to support CCGs prepare for authorisation the clinical leadership of commissioning and their development beyond authorisation.

We now know that Brighton Hospital has been fined £325,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following the recent case that got them into hot water... 

Monitor has published an independent report to inform the development of its policy on integrated care. The report suggests some early steps Monitor might take to enable improvements in the integration of care. 

The Department of Health has published its information strategy 'The Power of Information' which sets a ten-year framework for transforming information for the NHS public health and social care.

The Cabinet Office and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills have announced that they will take the lead in embedding the Government's new Procurement Pledge across Central Government.