All Integrated care articles – Page 104
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CommentStephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat
At a recent dinner party, a fellow guest, who happened to be a GP, said: “If I was to invite my colleagues to a meeting about practice based commissioning, I would be there on my own with the sandwiches” (well, actually these days it would be without the sandwiches.).
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LeaderClarity is the key to tackling excess admissions
Penalties for trusts doing too many emergency admissions, introduced in April, do not appear to have brought the numbers down.
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NewsNHS Surrey attracts Hertfordshire chief exec
NHS Surrey has appointed Anne Walker as its new chief executive.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated care services
The new guide From the Ground Up is an invaluable toolkit for PCT service planners and estates managers wanting to develop sites and buildings to support the delivery of integrated care services.
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NewsPool NHS and social care budgets, says Confed acting chief exec
Pooled health and social care budgets should be considered in order to help get through the public sector spending squeeze, NHS Confederation acting chief executive Nigel Edwards has said.
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NewsTotal Place could improve health and social care integration - Confed
Integrating health and social care services at “neighbourhood” level could deliver tailored care, reducing deprivation and improving value for money, the NHS Confederation says.
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NewsSW Essex community services to integrate with FT
The provider arm of NHS South West Essex is to be vertically integrated with North East London Foundation Trust, under the transforming community services programme.
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NewsCounty wide leadership role for Essex chief exec
NHS South West Essex chief executive Pam Court is to lead a county wide programme of service transformation, including preparing for GP commissioning and reducing management costs.
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NewsHSJ survey: How closely do you work with local government?
In light of the new government’s commitment to closer collaboration between NHS organisations and councils, HSJ and our sister title Local Government Chronicle would like to find out how much joint working there is at present.
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NewsLansley: readmissions move is to drive integration
Penalising trusts for readmissions will push the integration of acute and community care, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeConnected Care model seeks to ease local service integration
Connected Care aims to allay the fears of commissioners about integrating local services, says Helen Mooney
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NewsImperial College Healthcare chief backs GP integration
One of the biggest hospital trusts in England wants to convert itself into a vertically integrated care organisation.
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HSJ KnowledgeJoint commissioning in London
Consumers of health and social care increasingly demand high quality care, expect choice, personalised services and seamless provision.
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NewsClusters show potential to halve number of PCTs
New commissioning “clusters” could foretell a reduction in the number of primary care trust of up to 50 per cent, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTories warned on GP commissioning
A future Conservative government will need “the wisdom of Solomon” if it is to promote GP commissioning while also tackling poor primary care, the new chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsPCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
Primary care trusts in the East of England are planning on giving GP commissioners hard budgets next year, regardless of which party wins the election.
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NewsLondon merger plans revealed
Two thirds of primary care trust provider arms in London plan to vertically integrate with either an acute or mental health trust, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsEaling and Harrow merger gets go-ahead
A proposed merger between two primary care trust provider arms and Ealing Hospital Trust should be allowed to go ahead, the cooperation and competition panel has ruled.
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NewsEssex PCTs diverge on community provider plans
Primary care trusts in Essex have opted to go their separate ways on transforming community services following a brief flirtation with plans for a joint social enterprise.
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NewsHillingdon and Enfield to integrate with mental health sector
NHS Hillingdon looks set to vertically integrate its provider arm with Central and North West London Foundation Trust.