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Building Health Commissioning Capability of Australia’s Primary Health Networks –Service Providers’ Perspective

Journal of Healthcare Leadership
Zhanming Liang,1 Amanda Martin,2 Catherine Louise Turner2 1College of Business, Law and Governance, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia; 2The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Networks, Broadmeadow, NSW ...
Liang Z, Martin A, Turner CL
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Views of NHS commissioners on commissioning support provision. Evidence from a qualitative study examining the early development of clinical commissioning groups in England [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: The 2010 healthcare reform in England introduced primary care-led commissioning in the National Health Service (NHS) by establishing clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). A key factor for the success of the reform is the provision of excellent
Peckham, Stephen, Mcdermott, Imelda; id_orcid, Coleman, Anna; id_orcid, Segar, Julia, Checkland, Kath, Coleman, Anna, Checkland, Katherine; id_orcid, Petsoulas, Christina, Mcdermott, Imelda, Allen, Pauline   +9 more
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Building Water Quality Commissioning in Healthcare Settings: Reducing Legionella and Water Contaminants Utilizing a Construction Scheduling Method

Buildings, 2023
Construction activities in healthcare settings potentially expose building occupants to life-threatening waterborne pathogens, including Legionella. The lack of a building water quality commissioning (BWQC) process has been identified as a substantial ...
Molly M. Scanlon, James L. Gordon, Kelly A. Reynolds   +2 more
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Accountable to whom, for what? An exploration of the early development of Clinical Commissioning Groups in the English NHS [PDF]

, 2013
Objective: One of the key goals of the current reforms in the English National Health Service (NHS) under the Health and Social Care Act, 2012, is to increase the accountability of those responsible for commissioning care for patients (clinical ...
Peckham, Stephen, Mcdermott, Imelda; id_orcid, Harrison, Stephen, Segar, Julia, Checkland, Kath, Coleman, Anna, Petsoulas, Christina, Mcdermott, Imelda, Checkland, Kath; id_orcid, Allen, Pauline   +9 more
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Commissioning for long-term conditions: hearing the voice of and engaging users - a qualitative multiple case study [PDF]

, 2014
Background Some 15 million people in England have a long-term condition (LTC) but there is concern about whether or not the NHS meets their needs. To address this, consecutive governments have developed policies aimed at improving service delivery and ...
Kendall, S., Williams, Lorraine, Wilson, Patricia M., Brooks, F., Peckham, S, Reay, J, Bloomfield, L., Fiona Brooks, Williams, L., Wilson, P, Peckham, Stephen, Kendall, S, Reay, Joanne, Stephen Peckham, Joanne Reay, Douglas Smallwood, Smallwood, Douglas, Sally Kendall, Smallwood, D, Lorraine Williams, Reay, J., Brooks, F, Smiddy, J., Linda Bloomfield, Brooks, Fiona, Smallwood, D., Kendall, Sally, Patricia Wilson, Jane Smiddy, Wilson, Patricia, Williams, L, Smiddy, J, Smiddy, Jane, Bloomfield, L, Bloomfield, Linda   +34 more
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Primary care-led commissioning and public involvement in the English National Health Service. Lessons from the past. [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Patient and Public involvement (PPI) in health care occupies a central place in Western democracies. In England, this theme has been continuously prominent since the introduction of market reforms in the early 1990s.
Peckham, Stephen, Wilson, Patricia, Wilson, Patricia M., Petsoulas, Christina, Smiddy, Jane, Smiddy, J., Petsoulas, C.   +6 more
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Optimisation of Air Source Heat Pumps in Residential Retrofits

Journal of Sustainable Design and Applied Research in Innovative Engineering of the Built Environment, 2020
Correctly applied air source heat pumps (ASHPs) are a proven technology that can reliably and effectively replace fossil fuel heating systems and achieve targeted heating-related CO2 reductions.
Seamus Hoyne, Padraic O'Reilly, Michael O'Shea   +2 more
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Characterization and performance evaluation of the first-proton therapy facility in India

Journal of Medical Physics, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance characteristic of volumetric image-guided dedicated-nozzle pencil beam-scanning proton therapy (PT) system.
Dayananda Sharma Shamurailatpam, A Manikandan, K Ganapathy, M P Noufal, Kartikeshwar C Patro, T Rajesh, R Jalali   +6 more
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Changing the Ties That Bind? The Emerging Roles and Identities of General Practitioners and Managers in the New Clinical Commissioning Groups in the English NHS [PDF]

, 2014
The English National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing significant reorganization following the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. Key to these changes is the shift of responsibility for commissioning services from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to general ...
Julia Segar, Checkland, K; id_orcid, Coleman, A; id_orcid, Stephen Harrison, Harrison, Stephen, Checkland, Kath, McDermott, I, Coleman, Anna, Kath Checkland, Peckham, S, McDermott, Imelda, Imelda McDermott, Peckham, Stephen, Stephen Peckham, Segar, J, Segar, Judith, Anna Coleman, Harrison, S   +17 more
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Commissioning healthcare for people with long term conditions: the persistence of relational contracting in England's NHS quasi-market. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Since 1991, there has been a series of reforms of the English National Health Service (NHS) entailing an increasing separation between the commissioners of services and a widening range of public and independent sector providers able to ...
Shaw, SE, Nicholas Mays, Rebecca Rosen, Rosen, R, Porter, Alison, Shaw, Sara E, Mays, N, Shaw, Sara, Alison Porter, Mays, Nicholas, Judith Smith, Smith, Judith, Smith, J, Sara E Shaw, Rosen, Rebecca, Porter, A   +15 more
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