All Community services articles – Page 62
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HSJ LocalCornwall non-profit community provider rated ‘good'
PERFORMANCE: The first non-profit provider of NHS services to be examined under the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime has been rated ‘good’.
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HSJ LocalMutual’s contract extended to experiment with new care models
COMMERCIAL: Commissioners have extended Bristol Community Health’s contract to provide adult community services by two years, pushing the re-procurement of the services to 2019.
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HSJ LocalSomerset CCG mulls early end to provider contracts
FINANCE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is considering whether to release itself from contracts with a number of local providers in a bid to reduce financial pressures.
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HSJ LocalCCG to develop community teams based around GP lists
STRUCTURE: Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group is devising a new service model for community healthcare based around GP practice populations.
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HSJ LocalNorth East CCG forecasts £6m deficit
FINANCE: North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group has forecast a £6.4m deficit for the 2014-15 financial year, its chair has said.
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HSJ LocalNew service brings down MSK waiting times, says CCG
PERFORMANCE: An integrated, community based musculoskeletal service has cut average waiting times to eight weeks during its first year, Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group has said.
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NewsCity's social workers transfer to healthcare provider
All 172 of Plymouth City Council’s social workers are now employed by Plymouth Community Healthcare
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HSJ LocalCCG extends £30m community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group has extended its contract for community services with Bromley Healthcare by one extra year to end in March 2017.
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HSJ LocalTrust told to improve pressure ulcer care
PERFORMANCE: Trust members and other stakeholders have called on Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust to do more to reduce pressure ulcers and improve staff skill levels.
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HSJ LocalTrust told to do more for people with restricted mobility
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Care Services Trust has said it needs to improve its services for people with mobility issues, hearing loss, sight loss and communication difficulties.
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HSJ LocalHigh staff sickness rates may be due on low vaccine uptake
WORKFORCE: Sussex Community Trust may have missed its targets for staff sickness absence because not enough staff had the flu vaccine or the vaccine itself was not effective.
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HSJ LocalAcute trust takes control of community stroke ward
STRUCTURE: West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust has taken over a stroke ward and a ward for patients awaiting placement in a nursing home after Hertfordshire Community Trust said it could not guarantee safe provision of services.
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HSJ LocalTrust gives smart phones to staff to access records
WORKFORCE: Central London Community Healthcare Trust has issued 181 smart phones to staff in areas such as physiotherapy, speech and language and occupational therapy after a trial showed multiple benefits.
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HSJ LocalCCG to review trust’s district nurse contract
COMMERCIAL: District nurses from Oxford Health Foundation Trust are likely to work 11,000 shifts above their contracted activity level this year because of huge patient demand.
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HSJ LocalSalford Royal made second 'outstanding' trust
PERFORMANCE: Salford Royal Foundation Trust has been rated ‘outstanding’ following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsRevealed: Virgin handed £280m Staffordshire contract
Virgin Care has been awarded a £280m, seven-year prime provider contract to manage services in East Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrust to move some services to leisure centre
STRUCTURE: Leicester Partnership Trust and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group are to relocate community nursing and musculoskeletal services from Ashby and District Hospital to a leisure centre.
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CommentHSJ commission: Social care and housing are important to put older people first
Issues facing older people
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HSJ LocalCommunity services ‘unsustainable’ without investment, says trust chief
FINANCE: Services treating mental health patients in their own homes will become ‘unsustainable’ unless there is extra investment, a trust chief executive has said.