All Community services articles – Page 76
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HSJ Local
Mobile blood teams under threat in West Sussex
STRUCTURE: Plans to axe two mobile blood collection units in West Sussex have been criticised by unions.
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NewsDH plans property company merger
The Department of Health’s two property companies are beginning a programme of joint working and are set to merge in two years’ time, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe effect of age on hospice care
How will the ageing population affect palliative care?
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HSJ Local
Sussex Community Trust in new home palliative care partnership
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community NHS Trust’s palliative care team has joined with the Martlets Hospice@Home team to deliver a new specialist support and advice service.
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HSJ Local
New community hospital for Dover gets planning permission
STRUCTURE: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust says a new community hospital is due to be completed in the Dover area by Christmas 2014.
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HSJ KnowledgeBank on the internet to save the NHS
How the health service can extract more from its existing resources
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HSJ Local
Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust has appointed a new associate medical director.
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HSJ Local
New service encourages more homebirths in Sussex
STRUCTURE: A new 24-hour community midwives service dedicated to home births has been introduced by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ PartnersUsing Strata technology to improve referrals in Rotherham
Addressing problems in the referral pathway
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NewsMental health trusts look to diversify
Almost two thirds of NHS in-house mental health providers now also provide non-mental health services, a survey shared with HSJ reveals.
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HSJ KnowledgeDelivering health services fit for the 21st century
Coordinating and integrating care on the ground
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SupplementsWhy we are still dying at hospital, not home: the case studies
How partnership working is helping patients to die at home
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SupplementsThe care homes with the full care spectrum
Commissioners are looking at placing frail patients in care homes - with a full care package
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SupplementsWhy the 3 Rs can cut admissions: the case studies
Innovative ways to prevent health problems include using technology to reach out to isolated elderly people
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CommentDelivering a new NHS strategy means busting some myths
We need to have radical service change
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News'Close hospitals' to save the NHS, say managers, doctors and patients
The NHS faces financial ruin and is no longer sustainable in its current form, a collective of leading medical, leadership and patient organisations has warned.
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HSJ Local
‘Mini’ community hospital opened in Kent acute trust
STRUCTURE: A community ward is being run inside Maidstone Hospital to help older people recover faster, as part of an initiative involving Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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SupplementsWhy caring is desperate for records sharing: the case studies
How TPP’s SystmOne has allowed a foundation trust and a hospice easy access to all areas of the patient journey
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HSJ KnowledgeA strategy for maximising hospital capacity
Using home care services to reduce emergency admissions
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NewsForty-two trusts won't submit foundation applications by April 2014
Forty-two of the 101 NHS providers yet to become foundation trusts will either not do so in their present form, or will breach the current government’s previous authorisation deadline of April 2014.