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Relationships between some CCGs and providers are too close – Stevens
NHS England chief
executive Simon Ste- vens has agreed with MPs that some GPs on CCGs have overly “close” relationships with the provider organ- isations they commis- sion services from – a clear conflict of interest.
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Margaret Hodge MP, who chairs the Commons Public
Requirement to display CQC ‘scores on doors’
Hospitals, care homes and GP surgeries could be legally required to ‘prominently’ display their CQC service ratings from April.
If new DH proposals get the go- ahead, the CQC rating must be clearly visible, such as in waiting rooms or entrances, and be published on the provider’s website.
Failure to comply could result in a £500 fine, with the CQC also able to issue a £100 penalty notice in lieu of prosecution.
The BMA says the idea is crude, simplistic and could mislead patients, and the NHS Confederation is wary about imposing “unnecessary bureaucratic burdens on our members”. A consultation runs until 13 October.
NHS Employers appoints new chief executive
Danny Mortimer, director of workforce and strategy at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will replace Dean Royles as NHS Employers chief executive.
Accounts Committee, said such relationships were “incestuous” at a hearing on Monday 1 September, where Stevens was giving evidence. He appeared to agree.
Stevens was being questioned about GP out-of-hours services. Hodge pointed to Barndoc Healthcare, an out-of-hours provider in north London, which she said had eight shareholder GPs, including its chair, on
Mortimer was an NHS porter, healthcare assistant personnel working
manager at director different trusts.
Rob Webster, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “Danny was an outstanding candidate and will be a genuine asset.”
Wirral CCG structure ‘not fit for purpose’
An NHS England review has found that Wirral CCG has structures “not fit for purpose”
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey CCGs. She said: “Where you have got a commissioner in this instance who is actually chair of the provider organisation, it’s just too close. You wouldn’t do it.”
Stevens replied: “I agree.”
Dame Barbara Hakin, NHS England’s deputy chief executive, said the area teams will ensure CCGs can demonstrate how they manage conflicts of interest.
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and a poor relationship with its local hospital foundation trust. Serious concerns were raised about the CCG in May. Its governing body requested the help of NHS England, which began the first such investigation of a CCG.
The CCG’s chair, Phil Jennings, and chief clinical officer, Abhi Mantgani, “stepped away” from their duties to make way for the review.
Wirral CCG accepted all of the report’s recommendations, avail- able at the NHE website.
NHS Spine ‘successfully rebuilt’ – HSCIC
The NHS Spine system has been “successfully rebuilt”, with more
than a dozen national IT systems and services migrated to the
new platform in the space of a weekend, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
Following months of planning, testing and development, the new Spine 2 – built in-house by the HSCIC with help from IT firm BJSS – was developed to update the service in line with “latest policy and new technology”.
The Spine was originally developed in the early 2000s under the National Programme for IT.
It handles about 400 million electronic messages a month and more than 2.6 billion information
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requests and amendments each year.
Andy Williams, HSCIC chief executive, said: “We have harnessed the latest technology to rebuild the most important NHS electronic system, built over 10 years ago and today relied upon by hundreds of thousands of health staff and patients every single day. Rebuilding such a massive and integral system was a huge challenge, not least in ensuring more than 20,000 organisations and the many thousands of people who rely on the system were able to continue accessing the Spine during the transition with minimal disruption.”
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