All Community services articles – Page 84
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CommentFixing the broken system
Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered
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CommentThe healthcare arms race
It is blinkered to assume the best innovations come from developed nations
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NewsRevealed: extent of harm to patients under NHS care
More than 20 per cent of patients suffer avoidable harm during their care at some trusts, a national survey of frontline NHS services has revealed.
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HSJ Local
New X-Ray machine for Isles of Scilly
STRUCTURE: Peninsula Community Health has installed a new x-ray machine at St Mary’s Hospital on the Isles of Scilly that means residents will no longer have to visit the mainland for an x-ray.
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NewsNHS urged to think long-term to save
NHS organisations need to think more long term to innovate and release more savings, NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has said.
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HSJ Local
Neglect contributed to death of patient at Somerset community hospital
PERFORMANCE: A patient who choked to death at a hospital run by Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had been neglected by staff, a coroner has ruled.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool Community Health misses diagnostics target by huge margin
PERFORMANCE: Nearly 18 per cent of patients awaiting diagnostic tests from Liverpool Community Health Trust in June had been on its waiting list for more than six weeks, against a national target that fewer than 1 per cent of patients should wait that long.
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HSJ Local
New £33m community hospital gets go ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has approved the full business case for a £33m community hospital rebuild.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to make it to merger
Trusts can boost their chances of success when merger proposals are considered
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HSJ KnowledgeBring social care best to NHS
Health itself improves or declines at an individual level, so care must begin there
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HSJ KnowledgeBright approach to fast care
Implementing new ambulatory emergency care tariffs demands a mindset shift
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HSJ Local
Bidders shortlisted in competition for Central Surrey Health contract
COMMERCIAL: Just two bidders have been shortlisted in the competition to run the services currently provided by Central Surrey Health, the first social enterprise to come out of the NHS.
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HSJ Local
Cumbria council launches £300,000 health and wellbeing fund
FINANCE: Cumbria county council has launched a £300,000 grant fund to support community health and wellbeing projects in Eden and Allerdale.
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HSJ Local
Bradford District Care Trust begins IT integration
COMMERCIAL: Bradford District Care Trust has begun an integration of two clinical IT systems.
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HSJ Local
Pennine Care nearly doubled in size through TCS
FINANCE: The foundation trust nearly doubled its turnover in 2011-12 through the Transforming Community Services programme of transferring commissioners’ provider arms, its annual report shows.
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HSJ Local
Dorset Heathcare anticipates Monitor downgrade
PERFORMANCE: Dorset Heathcare Foundation Trust are anticipating Monitor will downgrade their governance risk rating to amber/green.
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HSJ Local
New chief exec for Yarmouth CIC
WORKFORCE: Tracy Cannell has been appointed permanent chief executive of East Coast Community Healthcare, which provides community services in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
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HSJ Local
Investment in Essex memory services
FINANCE: NHS North Essex is investing over £250,000 to improve memory services in Mid Essex and keep waiting lists down.
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HSJ Local
New home palliative care service for west Norfolk
STRUCTURE: A new hospice at home service has been commissioned in west Norfolk and should be operational from September.
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HSJ Local
Dorset Healthcare chief exec goes 'back to the floor'
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust has been going “back to the floor” and shadowing staff on the front line.