All Integrated care articles – Page 22
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News
Two dozen trust leaders warn white paper is a ‘step backwards’
The leaders of more than half the mental health trusts in England have told Matt Hancock his department’s new legislative proposals represent a ‘step backwards’ for their services.
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HSJ Local
Landmark integration contract shelved after NHS England intervention
NHS England has forced leaders in the Black Country to stop work on a landmark integrated care provider contract, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Legislation must require clinical and lay members on ICS boards
With the DHSC’s bill brought forward in Parliament, health leaders have raised concerns with the NHS Confederation which require the government’s attention, writes Lou Patten
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News
NHSE launches new intervention regime for struggling providers and health systems
The NHS will divide providers, commissioners and health systems into one of four ‘segments’ that determine the level of scrutiny and intervention they receive from regional and national teams under a proposed new oversight framework.
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News
CCGs to be absorbed into integrated care systems by autumn, says NHSE
Most clinical commissioning group teams at ‘sub-ICS level’ should not be operating by October, as they are effectively subsumed by integrated care systems, new NHS England guidance says.
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News
Treasury demands ICSs achieve financial balance for first time
The government has included a new requirement around the financial performance of integrated care systems in its key demands of the NHS for 2021-22.
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News
Planning guidance: New elective and cancer targets revealed
Integrated care systems will be eligible for a share of a £1bn ‘recovery fund’ in 2021-22 by achieving certain elective activity targets based on pre-covid levels.
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News
Flagship death review programme had ‘unclear and limited’ impact
A flagship government programme to improve care for people with learning disabilities has had an ‘unclear’ and ‘limited’ impact after six years, an NHS England report has found.
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News
‘Very boring discussions’ about ICS could quash system working, warns top trust chief
Fixating on the bureaucracy of integrated care systems will cause agile health systems forged during the pandemic to come to a ‘grinding halt’, warns the outgoing chief executive of a major London acute.
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News
Rob Webster heads CEO Top 50 as Dunn, Lawlor and Panniker fall from grace
Rob Webster is the first mental health trust chief executive to secure the number one spot in HSJ’s Top 50 chief executives list, which witnessed a significant churn from 2019, giving entry to new faces but also excluding many from the previous selections.
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Awards 2020: Integrated Care Partnership of the Year
WINNER: Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT – Guy’s Rapid Diagnostic Clinic Team
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News
Capital budgets could be cut in areas that lose control of finances, NHSE warns
Health systems that fail to show robust monitoring and control of their capital budget could see their allocation cut in subsequent years, regulators have warned.
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Comment
Workforce planning is complexity squared
We need a twin track approach in workforce planning – one for the medium-term and other for the long-term. By Rob Smith
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Comment
‘If you are not at the table, you are likely to be on the menu’
A vision for how integrated care system reform can lead to a more democratic, equitable and human health and care system, by Charlotte Augst and Alex Fox.
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Comment
Integration cannot be delivered if ‘NHS leaders are always looking up’
Places and systems must be the focus if local organisations are to successfully work together in a new spirit of collaboration rather than competition, write Chris Ham and Rob Webster
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Comment
Housing must be at the heart of the vision for health
Paul Burstow discusses the crucial link between housing and health that missed its spot in the recent white paper
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Why focusing on year-long waiters is futile
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Partners
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The white paper fallout begins
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
Fresh thinking can transform new hospitals in England
Lord Ajay Kakkar hopes this year’s Wolfson Economics Prize can kickstart a national conversation about the future of hospital building after government pledged £3.7bn towards the construction of 40 new hospitals.