All Integrated care articles – Page 73
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Supplements
The Care Integration top 50 revealed
The people doing the most to overcome historical organisational barriers to create a new care system
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News
Political consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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News
Hunt moves to shield hospitals from integration fund failure
Jeremy Hunt warned that there must be a ‘proper risk sharing profile’ in all better care fund plans to protect hospital finances
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Hunt: Risk sharing will protect hospitals from better care fund failure
Better care fund plans must share risk between hospitals and commissioners to prevent the acute sector losing out if they fail to deliver, Jeremy Hunt has revealed
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News
Better care fund gives integration a 'bad name', says Burnham
The government’s better care fund is in danger of giving “integration a bad name” and of tipping the NHS over a financial cliff next year, Andy Burnham has said
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News
Lamb backs legal requirement to pool budgets
Care minister Norman Lamb has today called for a new “legal obligation” to ensure health and social care commissioners pool their budgets as part of a significant expansion of his better care fund project.
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News
Better care fund hits £5.4bn
Councils and healthcare providers plan to pool £5.4bn as part of their efforts to integrate health and social care for the government’s Better Care fund, the Local Government Association has revealed.
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HSJ Knowledge
#Transformation2019: A complete rethink of how we deliver care means true integration
An integrated approach between health and social care, and the hospital sector is needed
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News
Councils warn over delays to better care fund
The government’s additional assessments of areas’ better care fund plans could undermine the £3.8bn programme by leaving them with too little time to make changes to services, councils have warned.
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DH plans tougher tests for better care fund
The Department of Health and the Cabinet Office will today meet with health and local government representatives to draw up a tougher set of tests for the better care fund.
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News
Integrated hotlines could exclude smaller providers
Plans by clinical commissioning groups to jointly procure NHS 111 and out of hours hotlines have sparked concerns that smaller providers could be squeezed out of the market.
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News
Survey: what are the top challenges facing health and wellbeing boards?
HSJ and sister title Local Government Chronicle are conducting research to discover the key issues HWBs face
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HSJ Knowledge
Improve frail elderly care with evidence, not intuition
How Camden CCG reduced admissions
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Blogs
The better care fund fiasco
Taking money from hospitals and giving it to local authorities is unlikely to improve working relationships
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Comment
We can't afford to rush community care contracts
Commissioners need to be pragmatic with out of hospital care
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Comment
Mutuals could save the NHS
Only friendly societies can keep the NHS free at the point of use
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS Health Checks under scrutiny
The importance of reviewing the public health programme
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HSJ Knowledge
Act now to stop the NHS's £17bn diabetes time bomb
Take steps to tackle the diabetes funding crisis