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Farrar calls for “Honest conversations” on NHS pressures

Politicians need to have “an honest conversation with the public about the pressures we face, the money we have and how we spend it in the future,” said Mike Farrar (pictured), Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation.
NEE CCG sees “difficult conversations” ahead

Commissioners in North East Essex are to have “difficult conversations” with patients and providers to enable them to “commission in a different way,” said Dr Shane Gordon (pictured), CEO, North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
DDES CCG targets quality shift

NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG has introduced a Quality Governance Scheme that will pay its 40 member GP Practices to deliver high quality primary care.
Liverpool Commissioners to give patients more control

NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, a membership organisation of GPs from 95 GP Practices covering 493,000 patients, is establishing a patient centred health service with its “Healthy Liverpool Programme.”
Who says commissioners “you can’t do it that way”?

The new Clinical Commissioning Groups have outstanding leaders, for the most part, and they are beginning to exert their muscle in terms of service redesign and not being bound by the rules of the past.
CCGs line up for April 1st

All 211 Clinical Commissioning Groups have been authorised by the NHS Commissioning Board to officially take over from Primary Care Trusts on 1st April.
Revised regs still push Commissioners into competition

The Department of Health’s revised version of the controversial Section 75 Regulations on competition contribute little to guaranteeing commissioners the freedom to commission, says The Lewisham Campaign.
Minister agrees Section 75 must be reworded

Section 75 Regulations on the use of competition by clinical commissioners are to be reworded by the Department of Health following pressure from doctors’ leaders and campaigners.
Section 75 would push CCGs to market

Doctors leaders have joined MPs and campaigners to call for a parliamentary debate on Section 75 regulations of the Health and Social Care Act that focus on patient choice and competition in the NHS.
Report finds benefits of joint commissioning hard to prove

Joint commissioning of health and social care is under pressure to prove its worth finds a report just published by the University of Birmingham for the National Institute of Health Research.