All Integrated care articles – Page 22
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CommentHow the new payment system for the NHS could succeed or fail
The direction of travel for NHS payments, away from payment by results, towards a blended system, remains the right approach, write Matthew Bell, Anita Charlesworth and Richard Lewis
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HSJ InteractiveEmbedding digital in the ICS landscape
As integrated care systems take shape across England, how can they ensure that digital is firmly embedded in their plans – and what should their digital priorities be? An HSJ webinar, supported by Cisco, explored these important questions. Jen Trueland reports
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PodcastHSJ podcast: A nasty surprise for trusts – and preparing for 19 July and beyond
Trusts received an unpleasant surprise last Friday when they were told they must do more elective procedures to receive money from the national £1bn ‘elective recovery fund’.
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NewsNHSE accused of shifting ‘the entire pitch’ on elective care recovery funding
Local systems will need to carry out more planned procedures to receive cash from the elective recovery fund following NHS England and Improvement’s decision to increase the activity thresholds required.
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CommentThe nation's love for the NHS is a blessing and a curse
We need to move spending and activity within our health system away from crisis provision and into communities, where health can be created, and not just managed, notes Jessica Studdert
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CommentNHS' role in tackling obesity
By investing in locally produced, sustainable foods, NHS organisations can invest in their local economy and shape their local food supply chains which could increase availability of healthier foods for the population. By Jonathon Holmes
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The health bill has landed
The Health and Care Bill has finally been published. We discuss the most eye-catching measures and the controversies surrounding what was supposed to be straightforward legislation.
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CommentDoes the buck stop with integrated care systems?
Miriam Deakin discusses the key policy documents that NHSE/I has published in recent weeks to help local health and care systems navigate the reforms which will make ICSs statutory bodies
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: One step forward, two steps back
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsHow health secretary’s new powers over the NHS will work
The Health and Social Care Bill, laid before Parliament on Tuesday, sets out how the health secretary could intervene in a wide range of NHS decisions and functions.
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HSJ LocalFlagship public-private alliance faces major delays and row over ‘power and money’
A £440m community services contract was due to be handed over to a new provider alliance this month, but the partners have failed to agree contractual terms and predicted it could take a further 18 months to do so.
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CommentICSs should focus on relationships as much as governance
Integrated care systems must combine the software of relationships with the hardware of governance, writes Sir Chris Ham
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NewsRevealed: NHSE plan to drive change in £17bn ICS procurement systems
NHS England will intervene to provide ‘extensive’ support to those health systems that must upgrade their procurement functions to meet new operating standards, according to internal documents seen byHSJ.
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NewsRevealed: How ICS performance will be judged
NHS England has revealed how it will measure integrated care systems’ performance and determine the level of support and oversight they need.
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CommentWe need a more compelling vision for the NHS reforms than simply 'undoing Lansley'
With the forthcoming health bill set to be introduced to Parliament in the next few weeks, and more technical guidance on the reforms due from NHS England soon, there is limited time to set out a much needed for vision for the changes they will bring, by Richard Murray, Charlotte ...
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PodcastHSJ podcast: A deep dive into Hancock’s data dream
Harnessing an opportunity to use the ‘full power of data’ to improve patient care, or a worrying ‘data grab’?
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NewsGovernment could ‘distract from care’ with health bill rows, NHSE warns
NHS England has called for the government’s forthcoming health and social care bill to be developed in a ‘spirit of listening [and] consensus’ or risk becoming ‘a distraction from our focus on improving NHS care’.
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NewsTop trust chief to become full-time ICS leader
Rob Webster is to leave his post as chief executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to become the full-time lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate integrated care system.
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HSJ LocalHospital and primary care leaders at odds over ICS boundary changes
Primary care leaders in Essex and Suffolk are at loggerheads with some of their acute counterparts over proposals which would make integrated care systems coterminous with the county council boundaries.
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HSJ InteractiveHow can the NHS ensure a permanent shift in the way it uses data post-covid?
The pandemic has driven a changed understanding of the value of consolidating healthcare information but there are obstacles to overcome if the NHS is to ensure a permament shift in the way the NHS uses data, a recent HSJ webinar heard