Using contractual levers in commissioning to improve health care services *

United Kingdom - June 6 2013
In January 2013 PRUComm (the Policy Research Unit In Commissioning and the Healthcare System) published its interim report following the commencement…

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Commissioning public health services *

United Kingdom - April 12 2013
Thankfully the Department of Health took pity on public health services commissioners when they transferred to local authorities and provided them…

Co-authors: Rona McPherson.

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Health and Social Care Act 2012: update - where to now? *

United Kingdom - April 4 2013
1 April 2013 has been and gone and the NHS is reborn. Each former Primary Care Trust (PCT) or Strategic Health Authority (SHA) was required, before…

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Local policy changes require PCTs to go beyond legal duties in conducting NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) eligibility assessments for previously un-assessed period of care *

United Kingdom - March 21 2013
PCTs are currently suffering an onslaught of requests for retrospective assessments of CHC eligibility following the announcement of the deadlines…

Co-authors: Alison Maw.

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A contractual “duty of candour” *

United Kingdom - February 28 2013
On 30 November 2012 the DH published its analysis of the consultation responses received in respect of a new contractual duty of candour on providers…

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