All Commissioning articles – Page 9
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CommentChange the Health Bill to strengthen governance and democracy
Labour MP Karin Smyth, who will be a member of the Parliamentary committee scrutinising the Health and Care Bill, proposes that ICS chairs should be appointed independently, and requirements for transparency.
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NewsAmbulance services seek regional commissioning
Creating single regional boards to commission ambulance services is under discussion with NHS England and Improvement, a report published today has revealed.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: An uneasy relationship with private health
Despite a wider political unease about the independent sector, the Scottish government will need to partner with the private sector to address backlogs of care writes Henry Anderson
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NewsSustained rise in long-stay patients stuck in hospital, leaked figures reveal
The number of hospital bed days occupied by people who are medically ready to be discharged has been growing steadily since the spring and is now higher than in the winter, according to data seen by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: The quest for zero suicides
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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CommentThe Blithering Chronicles: Aligned for success – your ICS questions answered
Julian Patterson reports on NHS Blithering, the country’s most challenged health economy
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NewsNamed: the first 25 integrated care board chairs
The chairs have been chosen for 25 of the 42 NHS integrated care boards which will plan health services from April.
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NewsDismay at failure to align ICS footprints with council boundaries
There has been an outcry from some local government figures in areas where the health secretary Sajid Javid has decided not to go ahead with making integrated care partnership footprints coterminous with upper tier authority boundaries.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Inside the NHS’ last big integrated care contract
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsExclusive: Children six times more likely to be restrained than adults
Children in mental health units are almost six times more likely to be restrained compared to adults, according to the findings of an unpublished NHS England review.
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NewsIntegrated care systems to set own constitution and pay
The new health bill will allow integrated care systems to set their own constitution, determine staff pay and raise ‘additional income’ but the health secretary will have the power to approve ICS chairs.
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NewsNumber 10 insists ICSs will go ahead next year
The government will press ahead with a sweeping health and social care bill before Parliament’s summer break, it has said, despite concerns from Sajid Javid.
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NewsJavid warned: Drop ‘power grab’ and press on with ICS bill
If Sajid Javid delays introduction of NHS legislation, the service will lose good managers and could sacrifice a rare consensus on health policy, the NHS Confederation is warning him today.
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NewsTop trust chief to become full-time ICS leader
Rob Webster is to leave his post as chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to become the full-time lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate integrated care system.
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NewsCouncil chief executive applies to be next NHS England CEO
A leading council chief executive has applied to succeed Sir Simon Stevens as the chief executive of NHS England, HSJ understands.
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NewsICS boundary changes will worsen patient care, Hancock warned
Plans to change integrated care systems’ boundaries risk worsening patient care, the health secretary is warned today.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Tussles for ICS influence are coming soon
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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NewsICSs asked for ‘fully staffed’ long covid plans by mid-July
NHS England has asked integrated care systems to develop ‘fully staffed’ long covid treatment plans in the next month, and is providing £70m to enable them to do so.
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NewsNew health bill may create ‘bureaucratic nightmare’, ICS leader warns
The senior NHS leader who is representing integrated care systems has warned government and NHS reform proposals risk creating a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’.
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NewsTrust chief leaves to head ICS
The chief executive of a specialist trust in Shropshire is leaving to head up the local clinical commissioning group and integrated care system.