GP commissioners are being ´set up to fail´ in their task of commissioning £60 billion worth of NHS care because they have no training or infrastructure to fall back on, experts have warned.

Clinical commissioning groups will have to manage on management allowances of far less than the nominal £25 per head per year and could struggle to afford the cost of large-scale procurements, it has has been warned.

Leading GPs have responded to a surprise £100m winter cash injection for CCGs by saying the funding could have been better used if included in budgets at the start of the year.

A first wave pathfinder CCG has taken the radical step of paying all its elected board members, the same hourly rate for attending meetings.

GPs internal practice emails regarding commissioning could be seized by courts and used as evidence in legal challenges to treatment decisions, lawyers have warned.

The Department of Health has stalled an attempt to force it to publish its own risk assessment of the NHS reforms. The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham instructed Health...

CCGs are facing a dire financial future with half braced to inherit a financial deficit from their PCTs, findings from a new survey suggest.  Some 52% of CCGs said they would...

GP commissioning is already being adversely affected by a lack of choice of commissioning support - with CCGs being fobbed off with PCT staff who are not up to the job, the NAPC/NHSA...

The DH is to ‘relook' at the added value of clinical senates, the NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has revealed. Challenged by a GP commissioner at today's NHS Alliance annual...

NHS chief executive, Sir David Nicholson has announced that CCGs are already controlling some 50 per cent of the £60 billion commissioning budget. He told yesterday's NHS Alliance...

Nuffield Trust head of policy Dr Judith Smith discusses how commissioners can involve acute providers at the strategic level to improve care for patients