By Department of Health (2012)
This document is an update to ‘The Functions of GP Commissioning Consortia: A Working Document’ published in March 2011, to reflect the final content of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and act as a helpful summary to which busy GPs and emerging CCGs can refer.
By Centre for Innovation in Health Management, University of Leeds (2012)
Despite the Government’s best efforts over the last ten years to get more doctors and nurses onto the boards of NHS Trusts, this research (the first survey of its kind) has found that the boards remain dominated by non-clinicians, such as accountants and managers. Clinicians make up an average of just 26% of board members in English hospital trusts, with major variations around the country.
The research, led by Professor Ian Kirkpatrick, looks at the relationship between having doctors on the boards of trusts and patient satisfaction rates, patient morbidity rates and how highly the hospital’s management is regarded. Essentially, having more doctors on the board increases patient satisfaction rates, and lowers patient morbidity rates.
By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
This document outlines the single operating model for the commissioning of primary care services within the NHS. It describes the system by which the NHS Commissioning Board will use the £12.6bn that is spent on commissioning primary care to secure the best possible outcomes for patients.
By NHS Clinical Commissioners (2012)
This publication shares learning from CCGs around England in the form of case studies. Each case study illustrates an example of successful outcomes and service provision.
By Department of Health (2012)
The revised guidance provides an explanation of how the healthcare public health advice service from local authorities to CCG commissioners will work. It is to help Directors of Public Health and their public health teams who are to transfer from PCTs to local authorities and CCG commissioners prepare for April 2012 when the new system architecture goes live.
By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
This guide is designed to support CCGs as they move towards establishment and authorisation, whilst reflecting the high-level principles governing the changes affecting staff across the NHS. It provides practical advice about how CCGs can approach the main HR issues that they are likely to encounter as they become established, beginning with the senior appointments process, transfers of staff and remuneration.
By Primary Care Commissioning (2012)
This toolkit supports CCGs in their journey towards authorisation, focusing on one of the major elements of healthcare expenditure – prescribing – and the essential associated medicines management and optimisation functions that underpin its safe, effective and financial management. In this toolkit each of the NPC indicators that underpin the six overarching competencies is allocated to one of the six CCG domains central to the authorisation process. Alongside each competency statement are one or more suggestions for the type of evidence the CCG should have, or be developing, to demonstrate it is meeting that competency and therefore supporting the overall aims of the domain in which it sits.
By NHS Networks (2012)
Part of the Smart Guides to Engagement series, this guide helps clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) engage well with the public to build understanding and support for change.
By Nesta (2012)
The purpose of the catalogue is to enable practitioners to reflect on their own practice and the extent to which that represents co-production; and to enable them to learn about co-production practice. It combines a range of case studies, resources and other information on co-production in health settings as well as in other sectors, in the UK and internationally including chronic disease self-management.
By The Department of Health (2012)
The NHS Companion Document to the Outcomes Strategy for COPD and Asthma sets out best practice for the NHS to achieve the relevant objectives from the Outcomes Strategy.