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11 Yorkshire CCGs standardise commissioning to realise £50m in savings

Which commissioning areas are West Yorkshire and Harrogate CCGs intending to standardise Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the West Yorkshire...

GPs resist pressures to limit prescribing

Should there be restrictions on the prescribing of certain medicines GPs have called on the Department of Health to review prescribing regulations...

CCGs in rush to merge

Why are so many CCGs merging Some 18 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are involved in a wave of mergers, while other CCGs are to share chief...

Health and care bodies plead for more money

What are health bodies doing to counter the crisis in the NHS Hundreds of organisations across healthcare have banded together to plead for extra...

CCG plan to offer treatment choice to eye patients angers pharma companies

How would CCGs' policy on wet age-related macular degeneration policy work Pharmaceutical manufacturers have threatened to take 12 clinical...

Children have poor experience of mental health care

How can the system be improved Care Quality Commission researchers have found children and young people's mental health services to be complex and...

Row erupts after claim that better theatre utilisation could deliver an extra 280,000 operations

Could better theatre management boost throughput An NHS Improvement claim that existing staff and theatres could conduct an extra 280,000 operations...

Statins may increase risk of type 2 diabetes, says study

Would healthy lifestyles lower the risks for people who take statins Research published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care showed people who...

Primary care home model expands to cover 8m patients

How widespread has the primary care home model become A new model of integrated primary care promoted by an association of GPs has expanded to cover...

Procurement tower contracts may go to existing providers

Which providers are most likely to win procurement tower contracts Up to six large 'procurement towers' contracts for procuring of everyday and high...

Bedfordshire to move swiftly on merger

Merger could go ahead by April if regulators approve Two Bedfordshire hospitals have set out an ambitious plan to merge by April Bedford Hospital...

Cancer services improving, says report

Will all patients get the full benefit of improvements Cancer survival rates are the highest ever and patients are reporting that care is good, said...

Health and Social Care Board supports trusts in controversial cost-cutting measures in Northern Ireland

Will cost-cutting on prescribing harm patients in Northern Ireland The Health and Social Care Board has backed controversial proposals to help meet...

Medicines regulation and public health should be Brexit priority, warns Wellcome Trust director

Why should international collaboration on public health and medicines regulation be the next item for the Brexit negotiations It is vital that we...