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Primary care commissioningCommissioning in England: past and present
Dr David Jenner explains how commissioning in the NHS has changed in England since the 1990s and provides his opinion on the current challenges for commissioners
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Primary care commissioning
Joined-up community care improves frailty management
Dr Ruma Dutta explores British Geriatrics Society guidance on assessing and supporting people with frailty and explains why good frailty services are important
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Primary care commissioning
GP early referral and ongoing health-checks are key in psychosis
Dr David Shiers (left), Dr Clare Taylor, and Prof Tim Kendall summarise key aspects for primary care in updated NICE guidance on psychosis and schizophrenia in adults
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Primary care commissioning
Better access to IUDs and the IUS could reduce teenage pregnancies
Eleanor Brown (left) and Dr Richard Ma discuss the delivery of contraceptive services and how improving access to intrauterine LARC methods could reduce costs
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Primary care commissioning
Improved skills and training could reduce admissions for COPD
Dr Dermot Ryan offers an approach to commissioning cost-effective services for improving the diagnosis, assessment, and management of people with COPD
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Primary care commissioning
Outcomes indicator set aims to drive local improvements in care
Peter Bullivant discusses how primary care has a vital role in identifying local priorities and achieving the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set
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Primary care commissioning
Premature mortality from breast cancer remains a key issue
Dr Karen McEwan describes legislation and guidance that needs to be considered when commissioning services for improved outcomes in women with breast cancer
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Primary care commissioning
Service design and commissioning is a complex process
Dr Shane Gordon explains that commissioners will need to take into account a broad range of legislation, guidance, information, and data when commissioning services
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Primary care commissioning
Identification and treatment of hepatitis C is an urgent priority
Steve Callaghan (left), Becky Hug, and Jane Cox explain how a new commissioning toolkit for hepatitis C was developed with the aim of improving services and outcomes
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Primary care commissioning
NICE has developed a suite of resources to support commissioners
Steve Sparks and Sanjay Tanday (left) outline the range of NICE features that are available to help clinical commissioning groups implement guidance clinically and cost effectively
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Primary care commissioning
Programme budgeting may help to control drug expenditure
Andrew Riley discusses the influential factors in using a programme budgeting and marginal analysis model to manage growth in prescribing costs
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Primary care commissioning
The outcome strategic map can support the commissioning process
Gina Perigo (left) and Steve Callaghan outline the concept of the outcome strategic map and how it has been used within Liverpool PCT in the delivery of health outcomes
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Primary care commissioning
ABC commissioning for outcomes model: can it be used for any service?
Stephen Callaghan and Gina Perigo explain how using an outcome-based approach will help GPs to commission services based on quality, standards, and evidence
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Primary care commissioning
A group approach to PBC can improve care for targeted diseases
Dr Richard More demonstrates how Somerset GP practices combined to provide better local facilities for treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Primary care commissioning
Local audit on use of inhaled corticosteroids benefits asthma patients
Doreen Cochrane outlines the winning initiative of the Guidelines in Practice Asthma Award 2007: an audit to identify if ICS dosing is in line with BTS/SIGN guidance
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Primary care commissioning
PBC offers opportunity for improved care for patients with diabetes
Dr Azhar Farooqi discusses how practices could use practice-based commissioning to redesign services and provide extra specialist treatments for patients with diabetes
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Primary care commissioning
Preparing an indicative PBC budget: can you justify what you spend?
Dr David Jenner outlines the importance to general practice of budgeting for practice-based commissioning and includes ten important criteria that the budget should observe
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Primary care commissioning
Implementation of PBC: what has been achieved so far?
Dr David Jenner presents the GP's perspective on practice-based commissioning, providing details of areas where cost savings may be made and his top ten tips for implementation
