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		<title>Online seminar Wednesday 13 February 2013: Co-commissioning between providers and commissioners, including GP providers as well as acute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next online seminar will be held at 19.30-20.15 on Wednesday 13 February 2013, and the subject is ‘Co-commissioning between providers and commissioners, including GP providers as well as acute&#8217;. The session will examine the personal relationships that create good commissioning, and how to put the &#8216;co-mission&#8217; into commissioning. It will pose searching questions, in...]]></description>
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		<title>Online seminar Wednesday 16 January 2013: Looking forward to developing clinical commissioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next online seminar will be held at 19.30-20.15 on Wednesday 16 January 2013, and the subject is ‘Looking forward to developing clinical commissioning&#8217;. The end of 2012 saw Wave 1 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) authorised &#8211; most without major conditions, and almost a quarter with no conditions at all. Meanwhile, commissioning support units (CSUs)&#8217;...]]></description>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; Assurance and reassurance: CCGs&#8217; relationship with the NHS Commissioning Board and its Local Area Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achieving Commissioning Excellence has published our second issue of &#8216;ACE Focus&#8217; on CCG assurance post-authorisation, and can be downloaded in PDF form here, and the online text of each article accessed through the links following below. The title of this issue is &#8216;Assurance and reassurance: CCGs&#8217; relationship with the NHS Commissioning Board and its Local...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Achieving Commissioning Excellence has published our second issue of &#8216;ACE Focus&#8217; on CCG assurance post-authorisation, and can be downloaded in PDF form here, and the online text of each article accessed through the links following below. The title of this issue is &#8216;Assurance and reassurance: CCGs&#8217; relationship with the NHS Commissioning Board and its Local...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; Quality measures and appropriate challenges to improve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Rooke, chief operating officer of Bedfordshire CCG, spoke to Achieving Commissioning Excellence editor Andy Cowper Q – What do you think will be the assurance metrics for CCGs? John Rooke: The broad assurance parameters and measures CCGs will face, that I can see, are going to be in the NHS outcomes framework, where the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[John Rooke, chief operating officer of Bedfordshire CCG, spoke to Achieving Commissioning Excellence editor Andy Cowper Q – What do you think will be the assurance metrics for CCGs? John Rooke: The broad assurance parameters and measures CCGs will face, that I can see, are going to be in the NHS outcomes framework, where the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; Assurance beyond authorisation: will the new system permit risks and localised innovation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Amit Bhargava is clinical chief officer of Crawley CCG I hope that the assurance of CCGs beyond authorisation next April will be based on the policy and the promise that we’ve heard up to now on localism, clinically-led commissioning, integration and freedom to innovate. This is what many, if not all CCG clinical leaders...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dr Amit Bhargava is clinical chief officer of Crawley CCG I hope that the assurance of CCGs beyond authorisation next April will be based on the policy and the promise that we’ve heard up to now on localism, clinically-led commissioning, integration and freedom to innovate. This is what many, if not all CCG clinical leaders...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; A process of trust and questioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Niti Pal, Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG &#160; Assurance of CCGs by the NHS Commissioning Board in the new world could be difficult and feel very top-down, unless the NHSCB is prepared to let go and allow the local teams to function properly. &#160; A good signs of the NHSCB starting to do that would...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dr Niti Pal, Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG &nbsp; Assurance of CCGs by the NHS Commissioning Board in the new world could be difficult and feel very top-down, unless the NHSCB is prepared to let go and allow the local teams to function properly. &nbsp; A good signs of the NHSCB starting to do that would...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; Wanted: an &#8216;adult-adult&#8217; relationship over CCG assurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Steve Kell is chair of Bassetlaw CCG Looking at how we hope CCG assurance will work once we’re all beyond authorisation in April 2013, I think that one key thing will be for all involved to understand and agree how it’ll be different to what happened before. In other words, what will be the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dr Steve Kell is chair of Bassetlaw CCG Looking at how we hope CCG assurance will work once we’re all beyond authorisation in April 2013, I think that one key thing will be for all involved to understand and agree how it’ll be different to what happened before. In other words, what will be the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ACE Focus Issue 2 &#8211; CCGs and Local Area Teams: partners in assurance and performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections from the Achieving Commissioning Excellence leadership forum, November 2012. What are the hallmarks of good assurance in behaviours, cultures and ways of working between clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the NHS Commissioning Board’s Local Area Teams (LATs), and what do we not want to see? Of course, we need to assure NHSCB in CCG...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reflections from the Achieving Commissioning Excellence leadership forum, November 2012. What are the hallmarks of good assurance in behaviours, cultures and ways of working between clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the NHS Commissioning Board’s Local Area Teams (LATs), and what do we not want to see? Of course, we need to assure NHSCB in CCG...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Online seminar Wednesday 31 October 19.30-20.15: Lessons from CCG authorisation so far</title>
		<link>http://www.nhsace.com/2012/11/online-seminar-wednesday-31-october-19-30-20-15-lessons-from-ccg-authorisation-so-far-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=online-seminar-wednesday-31-october-19-30-20-15-lessons-from-ccg-authorisation-so-far-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the narrative write-up of the latest Achieving Commissioning Excellence online seminar, with Julie Wood of NHS Clinical Commissioners and Dr Steve Kell of Bassetlaw CCG. The ‘stepping off’ point for this session wass the first in a new series of ‘ACE Focus’ reports, which examined CCG leaders’ learning from the first wave of...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the narrative write-up of the latest Achieving Commissioning Excellence online seminar, with Julie Wood of NHS Clinical Commissioners and Dr Steve Kell of Bassetlaw CCG. The ‘stepping off’ point for this session wass the first in a new series of ‘ACE Focus’ reports, which examined CCG leaders’ learning from the first wave of...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Online seminar Wednesday 31 October 19.30-20.15: lessons from CCG authorisation so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Cowper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our next online seminar will be held at 19.30-20.15 on Wednesday 31 October 2012, and the subject is ‘Lessons from CCG authorisation so far&#8217;. The session follows from the publication of the first in a new series of publications offering key lessons for CCG leaders. This first ‘ACE Focus’ draws together lessons from the first...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our next online seminar will be held at 19.30-20.15 on Wednesday 31 October 2012, and the subject is ‘Lessons from CCG authorisation so far&#8217;. The session follows from the publication of the first in a new series of publications offering key lessons for CCG leaders. This first ‘ACE Focus’ draws together lessons from the first...]]></content:encoded>
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