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CommentI was an NHS leader for 30 years. Only now do I fully understand dementia care
Dame Ruth Carnall calls for greater collaboration between the NHS, local authorities, and care providers to improve outcomes for frail and dementia patients through better integration, long-term planning, and shared resources
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CommentThe NHS has to rewire its decision making
Empowering NHS staff voices through insight pathways can tackle inefficiencies, boost morale, and drive productivity, offering a sustainable solution to the health service’s pressing challenges of reform, resource allocation, and workforce engagement, writes Annie Williamson
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2024: Primary and Community Care Provider of the Year
WINNER St Wulfstan Surgery A Patient-Centric Approach To Delivering Outstanding Care
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2024: Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year
WINNER Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, The Centre for Early Childhood Development (A Better Start), Blackpool Council Early Parenthood Service – Supporting Parents To Be The Best They Can Be
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NewsEnd GP partnership model to help A&E waits, says NHSE lead
The NHS needs to take more “radical” steps to improve emergency care waiting times, including making primary care a salaried service, a senior national clinical lead has said.
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CommentLocal communities should lead on setting priorities, not ICBs
Brian Fisher highlights the Coalition for Personalised Care’s work in examining the key conditions that empower communities to set and address their priorities, a tactic which yields numerous benefits
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Where’s my transformation fund gone?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentThe 'three shifts' are already happening
Moving care from hospital to community, implementing digital transformation, and shifting from treatment to prevention are the three shifts being led by NHS trusts to mitigate the challenges in how care is delivered, writes Emily Gibbons
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NewsTrust CEOs warn ‘generation of children’ at risk from failing services
A new report concludes that health services are “failing” children as young people face average waits of a year for an autism diagnosis.
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News‘Bullying and racism’ provider faces NHSE investigation
A community services provider at the centre of bullying and racism allegations is being formally investigated by NHS England over its governance arrangements, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsICB tells trusts to shift ‘core services’ towards new neighbourhood teams
An influential integrated care board has told its providers to work in 25 new neighbourhood teams – which will have about 2,500 staff across its patch – echoing proposals from the new government.
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HSJ Local‘No solution’ after firm’s closure leaves children waiting for diagnosis
A trust has paused autism assessments of primary school-aged children after being unable to find a “cost effective” provider.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The LCOs are coming
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsTrust eliminated year-long waits ‘by employing an administrator’
A community trust cut waiting times for one of its children’s services from a year to seven weeks, in large part by employing a dedicated administrator, it has said.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE’s defunding of older people’s programme ‘a source of national shame’
NHS England cut £390m (70 per cent) from its planned budget for improving community care for older people in the past two years, according to information obtained by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The influence of ‘place’ is being chipped away
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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CommentA sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Joe McManners
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NewsSystems slashing plans vital to government reforms
Tight finances are forcing integrated care systems into short-term cuts that will undermine ministers’ reform agenda and longer-term financial sustainability, local leaders have warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2024: Community Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance: Community Partnerships: Community ownership of cancer information to increase timely presentation
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CommentWhat might ‘Starmerism’ mean for health and care?
Politicians must value and mobilise local community organisations to fill gaps left by cuts in services to improve health and social care, writes Sir Chris Ham