All Integrated care articles – Page 69
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HSJ LocalSouth West CCG introduces system-wide CQUIN plan
FINANCE: A South West clinical commissioning group will attempt to encourage better integration between providers in the region by launching a set of health economy-wide incentive payments to drive performance.
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NewsNHS 111 would be handed over to ambulance services under Labour
Ambulance services would take over the running of the non-emergency 111 telephone service under a Labour government, Andy Burnham has revealed.
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NewsLabour plans 'accountable providers' for joined up health and social care
Labour plans to introduce an ‘accountable provider’ for frail older people under its 10 year plan for the NHS funded via a ‘year of care tariff’. This suggests a new role for trusts as lead providers of joined up health and care services.
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NewsExclusive interview: Ed Miliband on NHS reorganisation, competition and funding
A Labour government would not instigate a ‘top-down reorganisation’ of the NHS,Ed Miliband has told HSJ
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HSJ LocalNorthamptonshire agrees revamped better care fund plan
FINANCE: Northamptonshire’s health bodies and its county council have finally agreed on the terms of its better care fund plan, following intervention from NHS England.
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NewsExclusive survey: Low confidence that NHS will hit 2018 paperless goal
Health and IT professionals remain deeply sceptical that the NHS can be paperless by 2018, two years after health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled the ambitious target, exclusive HSJ research has found.
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NewsMonitor angers CCGs with advice on community services
Commissioners have voiced concern that their efforts to integrate services will be hampered by ‘enforced competition’ after Monitor released a report warning them against simply rolling over existing community services contracts.
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NewsStevens acknowledges risks to forward view's integration reform
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has acknowledged that vertical integration, one of the reform options outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View, carries the risks of supply induced demand and unresponsive ‘like it or lump it’ care.
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Competition regulator to probe NEW Devon £100m contract award
COMMERCIAL: Competition regulator Monitor has opened an investigation into a Devon clinical commissioning group’s plan to award a community services contract without a tender, a decision one trust has called “wrong” for patients.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England to probe costs of seven day services
Financial consultancy firm Deloitte has been commissioned by NHS England to examine the cost implications of expanding NHS services across seven days, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCommunity providers gear up to lead on new care models
Community service providers are positioning themselves to lead efforts to establish the new integrated models of care recommended in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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NewsCambridgeshire system plans joint integration bid
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough health economy is likely to submit a joint expression of interest to develop a new integrated model of care, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersCare integration: The vision is clear but the road is rocky
There are challenges to be overcome to achieve the forward view
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SupplementsPutting pathology to the test: an HSJ conference
What is the role of diagnostics in a changing NHS?
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SupplementsRoundtable: How to make integration happen effectively
Joined up thinking on integration
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HSJ Partners
New care model gives patients 24/7 access to end of life care
Commissioning end of life care services
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NewsUnrealistic better care fund targets must be revised, says NHS England
Projected savings of more than £250m from the government’s flagship integrated care policy are at risk.
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CommentHSJ annual lecture transcript: Simon Stevens' on forward view for the NHS
The edited transcript of the speech given by Simon Stevens at the HSJ inaugural lecture.
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NewsEmergency care demand for older people predicted to rise
Emergency admissions among older people are likely to keep rising during the next five years, a Department of Health funded study has found. This is despite ministers’ claims that the better care fund will lead to a reduction in non-elective activity.