by Andy Cowper on 23rd December 2011
David Flory – The financial picture The 2% headroom (top-slice) will be used for transition costs over the next year, but after that the NHS Commissioning Board will manage it. At the moment, nine NHS organisations are not able to manage within their budget, and viability of commissioning system will be undermined if the deficit... Read more »
by Andy Cowper on 23rd December 2011
Good evening and welcome to Achieving Commissioning Excellence‘s first online discussion. It will take place using the comment function below. We will shortly be joined by NHS Alliance director of commissioning Julie Wood, Richard Alsop of Nene Commissioning and Stewart Findlay of Durham Dales Consortia to discuss issues around CCG size, shape and configuration. You... Read more »
by Andy Cowper on 1st December 2011
Ali Parsa, Circle Health Many of you are in the process of setting up your own organisations – commissioning and provider. We are good in Britain at addressing what and how of a service, but forget to focus on why – can say how do more productive efficient, but why. Many argue private companies develop... Read more »
