NHS commissioning

A term of art referring to the processes by which the NHS plans and pays for services and ensures these are fair for all, of a high quality and good value for money.

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Major organization : THE NHS COMMISSIONING BOARD (OPERATING UNDER THE NAME OF NHS ENGLAND)

Provision Of Nhs Midlands And East Branded Medicines Tranche A

NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, who are clinically-led statutory NHS bodies responsible for the planning and commissioning of health care services for their local area, do not have the specialist skills to carry out certain functions, such as running large, complex tendering exercises and as a result pass these and other functions on to privately-run NHS Commissioning Support Units.

Parts of the NHS already sold off

The jobs most likely to go in the proposed "merger" of Shropshire's NHS commissioning bodies are those of board members themselves, the chair of one of the organisations has said.

NHS board jobs most likely to go

OPTOMETRISTS ARE ideally placed to benefit from the creation of General Practitioner Federations when they are introduced across the UK in April 2016, an expert in NHS commissioning has said.

GP Federations to bring benefits

Solicitor Jennifer Maloney of Slater & Gordon said: "We have reached a settlement with the NHS Commissioning Group, responsible for the Primary Healthcare Trusts that supplied the bed and failed to fix or maintain it."

GIRL 'KILLED BY NHS BED' Parents had warned it wasn't safe; EXCLUSIVE

It can be used by all 600 NHS Trusts and 211 NHS Commissioning organisations to procure consultants for new build and refurbishment works for buildings including hospitals and GP surgeries.

RLB secures NHS framework deal

Charity YoungMinds said 77 per cent of NHS commissioning groups had cut or frozen funding this year.

Child mental health crisis as cash axed

The NHS Commissioning Board refused to routinely fund the procedure but now some hospitals will be performing the surgery in a pilot scheme.

POSITIVE STEPS; NHS rethink on life-changing op to help cerebral palsy sufferers walk; EXCLUSIVE

It had been feared that a new funding formula would mean Liverpool's NHS commissioning group losing almost PS51m - or PS103 per head - from its annual budget.

MP WELCOMES NHS DECISION ON BUDGET; Fears eased over cuts to health spending

Now that NHS commissioning has fragmented across so many different organisations, it will be very difficult for practitioners dealing with more than one clinical commissioning group (CCG), as well as hospitals and the local authority, to be effective and efficient when there are several lots of rules and guidance to take into account.'

Safeguarding 'principles' may be drafted

THE new NHS commissioning group for north Warwickshire will hold its first public board meeting tomorrow.

First meeting for new NHS group; InBrief

It also provides an opportunity to learn how the Government, NHS Commissioning Board and other key organisations are responding and plan practical ways to take forward change and improve the culture of healthcare.