All Integrated care articles – Page 43
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NewsCommissioners look again at trust's 'fragile' services
NHS England and local commissioners want to look again at “fragile” clinical services run by Bedford Hospital Trust – less than a year after the provider committed to retaining its emergency and obstetrics departments.
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NewsConsultancies hired to 'accelerate' integration of four STPs
Two management consultancies have been commissioned to help four STPs in the West Midlands “accelerate” their integration plans, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTargets under review and NHS legislation open to change - PM
The prime minister has said the government is prepared to legislate to roll back the NHS “internal market” where it is found to be inhibiting integration.
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News'System approach' helps trust boost A&E performance by 40 percentage points
Extra beds, more staff at night, and twice-daily meetings with health economy chiefs are among the factors that caused an “inadequate” trust’s A&E performance to rocket by nearly 40 percentage points in two months.
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NewsCouncil chief takes accountable officer role at CCG
A local authority chief executive has taken the accountable officer role at the local clinical commissioning group.
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STPs ‘not the centre of gravity for everything’, says Swindells
Sustainability and transformation partnerships are not “the centre of gravity for every great piece of thinking”, with smaller patches the main focus for developing integrated care, the NHS England director of operations has said.
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HSJ InteractiveBlurring traditional boundaries to strengthen primary care
Each new integrated care system demonstrates a new species of leadership, focused as much on the system and the population it serves as on individual organisations, writes Michael Macdonnell
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CommentIntegrated care has the potential to improve health outcomes
Chris Ham and Anna Charles outline the findings and recommendations of the health and social care committee’s review of integrated care development in the NHS
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HSJ PartnersRole of technology in care integration: watch the video
Gary Birks – general manager UK and Ireland at Orion Health – considers the role of technology in delivering integrated care, the traditional challenges in sharing information within and between organisations, and the way in which an integrated digital care record can support better information sharing.
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CommentIntegration is not all about structure or organisational form
It is high time the community health sector was brought in from the cold and used as a willing flexible partner to redesign care for urgent and long care needs of our local populations, writes Matthew Winn
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Community services on the move again
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight. This week by HSJ primary and community correspondent Rebecca Thomas.
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Comment'NHS Assembly': clear purpose, inclusiveness and sufficient power needed
A spirit of humility and collaboration must be inculcated in the “NHS Assembly’’ for the sake of co-designing and co-producing the 10 year plan for the service. By Jeremy Taylor
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NewsTrust's integration with social enterprise raises merger prospects
An acute hospital trust could merge with a social enterprise company that provides community, mental health and social care services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Carter recommendation dropped after NHS England intervention
A recommendation to appoint a national clinical director for community services was dropped from Lord Carter’s community services efficiency report after NHS England intervened, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFour new 'integrated care systems' named
Four new “integrated care systems” have been named by NHS England and NHS Improvement, as they continue to “finalise the details” of a financial regime for the existing ten ICS.
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NewsCarter: Integrated acute and community trusts are more efficient
EXCLUSIVE: NHS productivity tsar Lord Carter has said integration of acute and community trusts would improve efficiency.
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NewsHigh Court told ACOs will unlawfully 'usurp' CCG powers
NHS England’s promotion of integration is an unlawful “usurping” of the Health and Social Care Act, the High Court has heard.
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NewsGovernment not planning to repeal Lansley legislation
Government sources have told HSJ today there are no plans to bring forward legislation to reform the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
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LeaderHow much will the government give the NHS for its 70th birthday?
Before the NHS turns 70 on 5 July, the government will have revealed its broad ambitions for the “sustainable long term plan”.
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CommentCommunity services – the glue in the system
Georgia Butterworth argues that we need to recognise and build on the massive untapped opportunities presented by strengthening community services