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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2022: Primary and Community Care Provider of the Year
Partnered by WINNER: Primary Care Sheffield
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NewsSharp rise in babies missing out on timely health checks
The proportion of newborn babies receiving a timely health visitor check-in has fallen sharply, with one in five missing out in the most recent statistics available.
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CommentNHS leaders must be curious about poverty
A new report from King’s Fund and the Centre for Progressive Policy highlights the stark truth of patients facing health inequalities and deprivation due to poverty. Toby Lewis urges ICP leaders to respond effectively
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CommentFailing to invest in rehabilitation will bring grave consequences for all
Based on her recent experience of visiting an enormous hospital, Karen Middleton stresses on how staff felt demoralised and patients in long waiting suffered from poor care
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CommentHow Healthwatch will help the NHS this winter
Community organisations rallied to help the NHS during the pandemic. With services facing another challenging winter, Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England, explains how Healthwatch are planning to lend a hand again
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CommentEnsuring ICSs do not create a postcode lottery for care
There have been attempts to outline and clarify how engagement and partnerships between the voluntary sector and ICSs should happen. Sam Mountney brings to light how it can be a real challenge for people affected with neurological conditions to be heard.
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CommentThe NHS needs to rethink how it communicates
The failure to consider the needs of diverse groups of people badly impacts experience of care. Sarah Sweeney, Head of Policy at National Voices points out how the NHS needs to change the way it communicates with people regarding care
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News‘Mothballed beds’ must be brought back into service to boost elective activity says NHSE
NHS England has warned trusts that it is “essential” that elective procedures go ahead over winter, despite acknowledging hospital occupancy is running at an “all time high”.
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CommentBereavement support has been neglected for far too long
Reverend Sarah Mullally emphasises the measures that need to be taken to improve bereavement support across the UK.
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NewsNHSE plans 24-hour target for new hospital discharge service
NHS England is developing plans for a new universal ‘community recovery service’’ with a 24-hour target to provide ‘step down care’ once a patient is deemed ready to leave hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS regional director stepping down
NHS London regional director and community health trust chief executive Andrew Ridley will step down at the end of December.
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CommentBetter access to rehabilitation can mitigate health inequality
Addressing inadequate rehabilitation services and disparities in healthy life expectancy is long overdue, and ensuring access may just prevent further entrenching inequities. By Natasha Owusu and Rachel Newton
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News‘Gross’ care delays could become ‘new normal’, says CQC report
The Care Quality Commission today urged system leaders to move away from “quick fixes” to the “enormous gap in resources and capacity” in urgent and emergency care.
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NewsHospital picks new private partner after firm’s sudden liquidation
An integrated trust has appointed a new provider of its diagnostic centre following the collapse of Rutherford Health in June.
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CommentOptometry has a critical part to play in tackling the NHS backlog
Community optometrists can provide an immediate solution to the backlog in hospital eye departments, but only if there is a sustained NHS commitment towards true integration into the primary healthcare family, writes Adam Sampson
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NewsTrust chief leaves NHSE role
A provider chief also serving as an NHS England director is returning to his trust full time, with another NHSE director taking over his responsibilities.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Provider-led ‘place’ perfection
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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NewsCovid redeployment ‘wrong’ and ‘will never be repeated’
Redeployment of community staff to other services – meaning visits for babies and parents were missed – was the “wrong decision” and would “never be repeated”, a provider has stated.
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HSJ InteractiveWebinar: How to improve patient flow through supported discharge
Freeing up space in hospitals is a key consideration for all trusts as they try to increase the amount of elective patients they can admit, in line with the elective care recovery plan. Many hospitals have struggled to discharge patients who no longer need medical or nursing care but who ...