Recent events

Since the Network was launched in December 2006, it has begun to establish itself as the voice for PCTs. This page lists activities month by month.

• November 2008
• October 2008
• September 2008
• August 2008
• July 2008
• June 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007
• October 2007
• September 2007
• August 2007
• July 2007
• June 2007
• May 2007
• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007

November 2008

• Attended DH World Class Commissioning Board
• Interviews with Channel 4 News and Radio 5 live on 'Top ups'
• PCT Network Board meeting
• Spoke at breakfast seminar - decisions making dilemma: NICE and the funding of future healthcare
• PCT Network Provider Forum session on community services at NHS Employers conference
• Attended Kings Fund discussion - Shaping PCT Provider services
• Presentation to LGA event for elected councillors on overview and scrutiny committees.
• Attended Mathew Taylor, Chief Executive seminar on influencing behaviour
• Attended DH mental health contract reference group
• Attended DH Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies programme board
• Gave evidence to Senior Salaries Review Body on very senior managers pay
• Presented PCT Network work to the NHS Confederation's Commercial Associate Forum
• Attended the DH Transforming community services board meeting
• Attended Children's Plan conference - Building brighter futures
• Attended DH contract stakeholder group
• Dinner with the Joint Medical Consultative Council
• PCT Network Provider Steering Group meeting
• Dinner with Healthcare Commission and Care Quality Commission
• Presented to the Annual General Meeting of Association of Greater Manchester PCTs

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October 2008

• Attended the DH's reinvigorating PBC - clinicians in commissioning event
• CPSP Centre for Public Service partnerships - Breakfast reception co-production of public services
• Attended Conservative Party conference
• Attended DH Mental Health Contract reference group
• PCT Network Dinner with Bill Moyes and senior Monitor team
• Attended DH Payment by Results Programme Board
• Ambulance Commissioners Network meeting
• Attended Effective Mental Health Commissioning and system reform meeting
• PCT Network/ DH commercial strategy workshop
• Meeting with DH on CQUIN guidance
• Attended Changing behaviour seminar at the Leadership Centre for local government
• PCT Network/DH Seminar on Transforming community services: PCT Provider governance
• PCT Chairs Confidential Forum
• Attended DH Independent sector transition working group
• NHS Confederation Commissioning Learning Disability services seminar
• Meeting with Anna Walker at Healthcare Commission to discuss Annual Health Check
• Attended Annual Health Service Journal summit
• NHS Confederation Membership meeting east of England
• Kings Fund dinner to discuss the centre of excellence for workforce strategy and planning
• Presentation at CIPFA conference
• Meeting with Andy McKeon at Audit Commission re Comprehensive Area Assessment
• Participated in New Statesman roundtable debate with Ben Bradshaw and Julian Le Grand
• Attended National Prescribing Centre steering group on exceptional case panels
• NHS Partners Network Dinner with 3i and independent sector on primary care services
• Presentation to Foundation Trust Network Conference on Quality
• Attended House of Commons breakfast discussion with Lord Carter on the Co-operation and Competition Panel
• PCT Network North West PCT Chairs meeting
• Attended CBI/LGA workshop on reshaping local strategic commissioning

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September 2008

• PCT Network Board meeting
• Meeting with Mental Health chief executives from south east coast
• Meeting with PCT Networking leads across the country
• David Stout interview on 5 live and sky news on PCT exceptional case funding
• Visit to Brussels for launch on NHS Confederation European Office
• PCT Finance Directors Group - 1st meeting
• DH Commissioning and Systems Management Executive away day
• Meeting with Greg Beales - Prime Minister's health advisor
• PCT Network Provider Steering Group meeting
• PCT Network Provider Forum - What can we learn from the community foundation trust pilots
• DH commercial strategy reference group
• Meeting with David Flory to discuss the Operating Framework
• DH Transforming Community Health Services board meeting
• Chaired a Ambulance Service Network & Healthcare Commission joint event on urgent care
• Joint event with DH on Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN)
• Attended the Conservative Party Conference
• External reference group on Mental Health contract
• Meeting with Ambulance Service Commissioners

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August 2008

• Input into DH procurement of external support for PCT Board Development
• Workshop with PCT providers - Telling the story about community services
• Meeting with the Health Care Commission to discuss 2008/2009 Annual Health Check
• DH Seminar: Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS)
• NHS Constitution: Implementing rights to rational PCT decisions on medicines (and other treatments) - Steering Group Meeting with National Prescribing Centre

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July 2008

• PCT Network Inaugural Provider Service Forum
• PCT Network Practice Based Commissioning Seminar
• PCT Network Accountability Seminar
• PCT Network Board Meeting
• PCTN Chairs Confidential Forums In Leeds and London
• PCT Chief Executive Dinner with Lord Darzi
• Meeting with David Behan, DH Director General of Social Care
• NHS Contract Stakeholder Group
• Meeting with Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health Minister
• Third Sector and Social Enterprise Delivery Board
• Cooperation and Competition panel External User Group
• Independent Sector Working Group
• World Class Commissioning of Primary Care Project Board

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June 2008

• PCT Network Annual General Meeting
• NHS Confederation Annual Conference sessions:
• o Primary Community Service: the future
• o World class commissioning: Making it a reality
• o PCT Providers Service: future direction
• o How do PCTs decide on priorities?
• You and Yours interview re GP services
• Transforming Community Health Services Board
• Independent Sector Transition Working Group
• Meeting with Jo Lenaghan, Chief Advisor to David Nicholson, to discuss the NHS institution.
• Transaction Manual Stakeholder Group
• Cooperation and Competition Panel - External User Group.
• The launch of the NHS Next Stage Review.

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May 2008

• Breakfast meeting with Mark Britnell and David Nicholson
• Meeting for the Primary and Community services strategy Advisory Board
• Meeting with Ivan Lewis to discuss the PCT accountability and social care green papers
• Attended the whole system demonstrator Programme - Professional Bodies Group
• Attended the transaction Manual Stakeholder Group
• Meeting with the Department of Health on performance regime
• Meeting with the president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• London regional membership meeting
• David Speaking on world Class Commissioning at the Primary Care 2008 Conference

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April 2008

• South West regional membership meeting
• Attended Health select Committee Health Inequalities inquiry oral evidence session
• Sixth meeting of the PCT Network Board
• Attended London world class commissioning seminar
• Attended Advisory Board meeting for Primary and Community service Strategy
• Meeting with Gareth Taylor Health care Commissioner
• PCT Providers Service: New direction event
• Meeting with the department of health regarding the PCT Procurement guide
• Meeting on the parliamentary briefing on GP access
• Dinner with Lord Darzi
• Attended co-operation and competition panel External User group
• East Midlands Regional membership meeting

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March 2008

• PCT Network's first national annual conference held in London, including keynote speech from Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health and David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive
• Confidential forum held with David Stout at NHS Confederation North West membership meeting
• Macular disease meeting on NICE guidance and implications for PCTs and IVAN trial
• National PCT Network chairs forum held in London followed by One year on reception with key stakeholders to celebrate achievements of the Network so far
• Attended Third Sector and Social Enterprise Delivery Board meeting
• Attended system reform Transactions Manual Stakeholder Group meeting
• Attended NHS Review Primary & Community Strategy Advisory Board meeting
• Meeting with the Joint Epilepsy Council
• Attended London Mental Health Collaborative Commissioning Group
• Gave evidence to the independent review of VSM pay
• Discussed joint working with the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

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February 2008

• Stakeholder meeting with Department of Health (DH), Healthcare Commission, Audit Commission and CSCI on how to ensure an integrated approach to the assessment of commissioning
• Meeting with Anna Walker, Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission on the Annual Health Check
• Meeting with Una O'Brien, Director General of Policy and Strategy at the DH on health inequalities
• Meeting with the Office of the SHAs to discuss PCT local accountability
• Attended world class commissioning development programme event
• Meeting with the Local Government Association to develop joint approach to local accountability and the Next Stage Review
• Meeting with FESC suppliers to discuss links with the NHS Confederation
• Gave evidence to the independent inquiry on access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities
• Held PCT chairs confidential forum in Leeds
• Represented PCTs at NHS constitution deliberative event
• Attended a DH system management workshop with PCTs
• Attended Next Stage Review advisory board meeting on primary and community care
• Held a joint workshop with the Mental Health Network on commissioning mental health services

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January 2008

• Meeting with David Behan to discuss the Social Care Green Paper
• Invited to Gordon Brown lecture on Future of our NHS: personal and preventative
• Fifth meeting of the PCT Network Board held and included workshop on regulation
• Meeting with NPSA with Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive of National Patients Safety Association
• Meeting with Helen Fentiman from the provider services team at the Department of Health (DH)
• NHS European Unit joins the Confederation and meets with the Network to discuss legislation for cross-border care
• Meetings with Partnerships UK and Newchurch on provider services
• Attended world class commissioning primary care project board on what world class commissioning would mean in practice for commissioning primary care services
• Department of Health System Management workshop defining the roles and responsibilities for the system in the future
• Meeting with Monitor on working with PCTs around commissioning compliance
• Attended world class commissioning board meeting to discuss the development programme for PCTs
• Meeting with Barry Cockroft, Chief Dental Officer at the Department of Health
• Meeting with Anne Williams from the ADASS on areas of common interest
• Network gave evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on GP access
• Meeting with Sarah Bickerstaffe from the Department of Health on the commissioning of physiological therapies, leading to a PCT Network report on the issue
• Evidence given at the cross-party LGA Health Commission on accountability
• Attended learning disabilities meeting on the transfer of funding and commissioning to Local Authorities by 2009/10

Press releases

10 Jan 2008
Primary Care Trust Network comments on select committee report on NICE

17 Jan 2008
PCT Network responds to the PAC report on prescribing costs in primary care

23 Jan 2008
NHS Confederation calls for strong accountability in the NHS

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December 2007

• David Stout presented the 11 commissioning competencies at the Adding life to years and years to life, Department of Health commissioning and system management conference
• Attended NHS Contract stakeholder reference group where the standards for the acute contract were agreed to form part of the Operating Framework for 2008/09
• Attended NHS Next Stage Review Primary and community care services strategy group
• Attended third accelerated strategic learning event on world class commissioning building a support and development programme for PCTs
• Dinner with the LGA
• Meeting with Savas Hadjipavlou, Head of Offender Health at the Department of Health, to discuss joint working on offender health
• Hosted a seminar on PCT accountability with Greg Beales, Advisor to the Prime Minister, and other key opinion formers
• Attended NHS Next Stage Review national workforce planning group

Press releases

13 Dec 2007
NHS Confederation and Primary Care Trust Network comment on Operating Framework 2008/09

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November 2007

• First PCT Network Social Enterprise Action Learning Set (SEALS) workshop launched by Gary Belfield, Director Commissioning, Department of Health
• Attended Centre of Excellence in Connected Care steering group meeting
• Fourth meeting of the PCT Network Board
• Attended second accelerated strategic learning event on world class commissioning
• Meetings with NHS Alliance and NAPC on work programmes
• Meeting with the general secretary of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG)
• David Stout chosen as a judge for the HSJ Awards 2007
• Presented at the Managers in Partnership annual conference
• PCT Network members attended confidential forum with David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS
• Attended World Class Commissioning Board meeting
• Presented at Local Government Association conference on partnership working
• Attended Department of Health meeting on the rules of co-operation and competition
• Gave evidence to the Senior Salaries Review Body on very senior managers pay
• Presented findings of the PCT Network providers survey at the London PCT policy forum
• Meeting with Care UK
• Meeting with Greg Beales, Prime Ministers Delivery Unit, on GP access
• Attended Department of Health and ABPI Long Term Leadership Strategy in Medicines Partnership working group

Press releases

22 Nov 2007
Primary Care Trust Network comment on Audit Commission report 'Putting commissioning into practice

22 Nov 2007
Primary Care Trust Network comments on written ministerial statement 2008/09 revenue allocations to Primary Care Trusts

29 Nov 2007
NHS Confederation responds to the NHS quarter two financial figures

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October 2007

• Chaired dinner on tackling health inequalities at Conservative Party conference fringe event
• Meeting with Mark Davies, Director of System Reform & Partnerships, Department of Health, on working with the Home Office on crime reduction
• Attended Local Government Association/Department of Health workshop on health and social care working arrangements
• Invited to join NHS Networks PEC Chair Network meeting
• Presence at NHS Employers conference including PCT Network open session and workshop on developing commissioning skills
• Meeting with Ivan Eliul, Director of Planning, Department of Health, on the Operating Framework
• Attended the NHS Contract stakeholder reference group
• Attended Office of Health Economics Commission workshop on using patient outcomes in commissioning health care
• Meeting with Andy McKeon, Managing Director of Health at the Audit Commission, on the links between allocation, deprivation and efficiency
• Attended Department of Health accelerated improvement event on responsive General practice
• Meeting with North West PCT chairs
• Attended Payment by Results programme board meeting
• Meeting with David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Department of Health
• Meeting with Ann Keen, Minister of Health
• Meeting with Mike Horah, Head of Health Inequalities, Department of Health
• Attended the National Children and Adult Social Services conference, Bournemouth
• Attended the LAA Health and Wellbeing National Workshop

Press releases

11 October 2007
PCT Network responds to association of directors of public health survey

18 October 2007
PCT Network responds to the Healthcare Commission Annual Healthcheck

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September 2007

• Invited to attend Local Government Association Community Well-being Board
• Third meeting of the PCT Network Board including session with Mark Britnell, Director General of Commissioning and System Management at Department of Health, on world class commissioning
• Meeting with Gary Belfield on Practice Based Commissioning
• South West regional membership meeting
• Invited to join national implementation team on primary care access
• Chaired NHS Partners focus group with Department of Health on world class commissioning
• Meeting with Anne McLaren from the Healthcare Commission on the annual health check
• Meeting with Humana
• Meeting with Mark Britnell to discuss primary care access
• Attended NHS leadership event on vision and values for the NHS
• Co-produced Department of Health event on world class commissioning with the NHS Institute
• Attended the NHS LifeCheck Board
• Meeting with Julie Jones, Chief Executive, Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Attended PMDU workshop on the PSA targets for Child Health

Press releases

9 September 2007
PCT Network comment on IPPR great expectations report

9 September 2007
PCT Network comment on CBI report on clinical governance

13 September 2007
PCT Network respond to PAC report on clinical governance

14 September 2007
PCT Network comment on deafblind uk report into experience of NHS

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August 2007

• Meeting with Tim Crayford, President of Association of Directors of Public Health
• Meeting with Ann Williams, President of Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
• Invited to join Department of Health Reference Group on developing a strategy for the health of health professionals
• Invited to join Department of Health's National Improvement Team for primary care access
• Meeting with James Kingsland, Chairman of National Association of Primary Care
• Meeting with Mark Britnell, Director General of Commissioning and System Management at Department of Health

Press releases

• 30 August 2007
  PCT Network opinion piece in HSJ on GP access
  
  

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July 2007

• Key involvement in the development of the Department of Health's programme on what world class commissioning should look like
• Invited to join NHS Institute Commissioning and 18 weeks expert panel
• PEC chair dinner with David Nicholson, NHS chief executive and Mark Britnell, Director General of Commissioning and System Management at Department of Health
• Second meeting of the PCT Network Board - notes available on the PCT Board page
• Evidence to Health Select Committee on NICE
• Invited to join Department of Health NHS Leadership Event
• Invited to join Department of Health Commissioning Capabilities Thinking Group
• Meeting with NICE to discuss PCTs involvement in the NICE appraisals process
• Joint event with LGA on commissioning and procurement
• Invited to join NICE Commissioning Programme Steering Group
• Meeting with Helen Bevan from NHS Institute of Improvement and Innovation
• Attended Department of Communities and Local Government meeting on local area agreements
• Joint conference with LGA on health and well-being partnerships
• London PCT policy forum: Master Class for London Commissioning Leaders - How the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement can help

Press releases

• 11 July 2007
  PCT Network comments on prescribing schemes in PCTs
  24 July 2007
  Primary Care Trust Network comments of GP Patient Survey
  Report
• 11 July 2007, Healthcare Finance
  Opinion piece for Healthcare Finance - David Stout
  
  

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June 2007

• London PCT dinner with Lord Hunt
• Invited to join Department of Health External Stakeholder Reference Group - Development of new NHS contracts
• PCT allocation workshop with Department of Health
• Meeting with Audit Commission
• Meeting with Ian Gilmore, President of Royal College of Physicians
• Meeting with Department of Health on Community Foundation Trusts
• A joint seminar with the Foundation Trust Network that looked at the 2007/08 model contract. Find notes on the recent events page.
• PCT representatives at dinner with Healthcare Commission top team
• West Midlands regional membership meeting
• Inaugural PCT Network Annual General Meeting with David Nicholson as guest speaker
• Intervention Thresholds Seminar
• Presentation at IDeA/LGA National Councillor Network for Adult Social Care and Health meeting
• Meeting with the Department of Health on the Community equipment services review.

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May 2007

• Inaugural Board meeting. Constitution agreed, chair and vice-chair elected and work programme topics decided. Notes available on the PCT Board page
• Chairs forum with the Secretary of State. Notes available on the recent events page
• Dinner with Ivan Lewis MP and voluntary sector representatives to discuss commissioning relationships
• Meeting with Baroness Gould, Chair of the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV
• Presentation at Community Care Live event
• Presentation at LGA conference on elected councillors who are members of NHS bodies
• Focus group discussion at north east regional membership meeting
• Meeting with NHS Confederation Commercial Associates
• Attended workshop with the Audit Commission on primary care provision
• Meeting with the Audit Commission on comprehensive area assessments.

Press release

• 29 May 2007
  PCT Network elects new Chair and Vice Chair
  
  

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April 2007

• Published Partnership working: the facts
• Dinner with Local Government Association
• Evidence to Prime Minister's Delivery Unit review of commissioning capability
• Joint event with Healthcare Commission on 2007/08 PCT Annual Health Check
• Meeting with Paul Corrigan
• Invited to join Department of Health Third Sector and Social Enterprise Delivery Board
• Focus Group discussion at East of England regional membership meeting.

Press releases

• 5 April 2007
  NHS Confed PCT Network comment on BMA's GPC guidance - safeguarding patients, maintaining cost-effectiveness
  5 April 2007
  NHS leaders call for less blame and more honest communication between health and social care
  
  

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March 2007

• Profile in the Guardian and an opinion piece on top-slicing in HSJ
• Focus group discussions at north west and south east regional membership meetings
• Meeting with Bill Moyes, Chief Executive of Monitor
• Meeting with Anna Walker, Chief Executive of Healthcare Commission
• Meeting with President of Royal College of General Practitioners
• Dinner with voluntary sector providers
• Invited to join the Health Visiting Review steering group
• London PCT policy forum seminar: Commissioning primary care in London.

Press release

• 16 Mar 2007
  NHS leaders call for less blame and more honest communication between health and social care

Article

• 8 March 2007 HSJ online
  Financial crisis in the NHS - David Stout
  
  

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February 2007

• David Stout starts as PCT Network director
• Invited to join the Department of Health Payment by Results Programme Board
• Evidence to Health Select Committee on Patient and Public Involvement
• Meeting with Duncan Selbie, Director General at Department of Health
• Invited to sit on a reference group for reviewing the role of the PEC
• Participated in the development of the Department of Health's Commissioning Framework for Health and Well-being
• Invited to join the NHS Life Check Board.