All Community services articles – Page 64
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Birmingham health leaders back forward view care models
Healthcare leaders in Birmingham are already seeking to establish the new models of care provision proposed in last week’s NHS Five Year Forward View, HSJ can reveal.
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Priory Group sets sights on community contracts
A major private provider of mental healthcare beds in the UK is planning a significant expansion into the sector’s community services market
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Supplements
Roundtable: Put nutrition at the centre of public health
Tackling malnutrition with an integrated approach
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Comment
The forward view is welcome but needs funding and stability
Its success rests in the hands of politicians
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Expanded roles envisaged for non-medical staff
The roles and responsibilities of non-medical NHS staff would be dramatically expanded under the five year forward view
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HSJ Partners
Investing in community based end of life care is a win-win
Phil McCarvill of Marie Curie Cancer Care reflects on a new report from the Nuffield Trust
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HSJ Local
CCG announces bidders for £40m community services contract
COMMERCE: Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group has named the bidders to make it through the first stage of a procurement process for a £40m community and out of hours contract.
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Surge in care claims puts pressure on CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups in one area are on track to spend up to £10m more than expected
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Warning to NHS over paediatric reconfigurations
Hospital trusts should ensure adequate children’s community services are in place before closing in-patient units, a senior leader in paediatrics has warned
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HSJ Local
Cambridgeshire trust could see workforce shrink 40 per cent
Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust looks set to lose four in 10 of its workforce after a rival NHS led consortium secured preferred bidder status for an £800m older people’s service contract.
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Croydon CCG creates £1.7bn plan for health and social care services
Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group has joined forces with its local authority to create a £1.7bn plan to change the way health and social care services for over 65-year-olds are commissioned.
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'Hostile' private provider ordered to pay whistleblowing nurse's costs
A private provider of nursing services across Britain must pay the legal costs of a whistleblowing nurse, according to a tribunal that described the firm as ‘unreasonably hostile’.
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HSJ Partners
The bottom line is commission for quality, not just savings
Don’t put end of life care at risk
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Comment
Local issues need local solutions, not another top-down restructure
Clinical commissioning is key
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EXCLUSIVE: Burnham outlines new role for Monitor
A Labour government could put Monitor in charge of overseeing the financial sustainability of whole health economies, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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Systemic barriers hold back London mental health services, report finds
London lacks a ‘collective vision’ for improving mental health services, according to a new report by the King’s Fund which identifies systemic barriers to improving services in the capital.
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Deprived mothers 'get worse care' than wealthiest
More needs to be done to help poor women through pregnancy, experts have said, after new research found that they have a worse experience than better-off mothers-to-be.