All Integrated care articles – Page 48
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NewsBurnham: Reconfiguration took focus 'away from where it should have been'
Andy Burnham says health leaders in Greater Manchester should reflect on the much heralded reconfiguration of hospital services in the region, saying it “took time, energy and focus away from where it should have been”.
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CommentConsolidation does not guarantee better care coordination
The drive to merge independent NHS organisations might have potential benefits but could end up making the health service less responsive to patient needs, opine Bill Morgan, Andrew Taylor and John Bennett
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CommentHow do we make integration more than a tick box exercise?
Integration between health and social care remains an elusive goal but the essential building blocks are well documented, writes Paul Burstow
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NewsCCGs tender £125m contract for integrated urgent care
A distressed health economy is redesigning its urgent care services with commissioners releasing a £125m contract to bring urgent out of hospital services together.
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CommentMoving rhetoric to reality: six challenges for health and social care
There are six key issues the health and social care sector need to tackle in the near future, writes Steve James. Can we turn talk into action?
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NewsExclusive: Government threatens to intervene over DTOCs performance
Ministers are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.
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CommentThe clock is ticking on prevention and integration
Lip service has been paid to the need for prevention and integration in the NHS and social care system. Now more must be done to implement change on the ground, writes Mike Adamson, chief executive of the British Red Cross
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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NewsNHSI reveals nationwide pathology network plan
NHS Improvement has outlined plans to create 29 pathology networks across England in a bid to make nine per cent savings as part of work to implement recommendations set out by Lord Carter.
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HSJ LocalExtra costs for CCGs after NHS England pauses procurement
Commissioners in two counties have incurred extra costs after NHS England delayed their procurement for an NHS 111 and out of hours GP service.
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CommentSuccessful new care models will need significant management support
Whatever you call them, new care models all face similar tough challenges. So how likely are they to succeed?
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NewsJeremy Hunt urged to rethink 'backwards' DTOC targets
County councils have written to health secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to rethink ‘undeliverable’ targets for reducing delayed transfers of care from hospitals that could reuslt in vital funding being withdrawn.
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HSJ LocalCCG and council to create £105m joint executive board
A clinical commissioning group and local authority will set up a joint board with executive powers in a bid further integrate health and social care commissioning.
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NewsExclusive: Vanguards target 3 per cent cut in emergency admissions
National vanguards believe they can reduce emergency admissions by almost 3 per cent over the next four years, an HSJ analysis has shown.
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HSJ LocalNHS England pauses CCG and council's integration plans
Plans by NHS and local authority commissioners in London to fully integrated their budgets have been paused after NHS England launched a review into governance around the process.
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HSJ LocalInadequate CCG moves to join with council
Plans for a single commissioning body to span health and social care in Somerset have been announced.
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CommentCommunity hospitals: a traditional solution to help today’s NHS?
With ease of access and a sense of homeliness, there is potential for community hospitals to be better integrated into the healthcare system. By Emma Pitchforth, Edwin van Teijlingen and Ellen Nolte
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NewsVanguard funding 'should not be stopped next year'
Funding for new care model vanguards should not be stopped next March as planned, because the project needs more time to provide models for other areas to use, NHS Providers has said.
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NewsSimon Stevens: 'Laissez faire' approach to integrated care has not worked
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has hit back at criticism of the new better care fund planning guidance.
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NewsLocal government withdraws support for 'disappointing' BCF guidance
Controversial new guidance on how the £2bn allocated to social care must be spent shows the government has bowed to pressure from the NHS, according to the chair of the Local Government Association’s community wellbeing board.