All Integrated care articles – Page 75
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MPs: Monitor ‘must not be an obstacle to change’
Acute services in the NHS in England are facing a year of particular financial pressure in 2015-16, when changes to funding arrangements will see £2bn transferred to community health and social care provision, a parliamentary report has warned.
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Tech Fund underspend to be rolled over
Nearly half of the £90m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards technology funding originally earmarked to be spent this year will be rolled over into 2014-15, NHS England has said.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall integration pioneer planning county-wide rollout
A partnership between the NHS and voluntary sector which is credited with reducing emergency admissions by nearly a third is set to be rolled out across Cornwall over the next 18 months.
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HSJ Partners
A fragmented system can't deliver whole person care
Put integration and the individual at the centre of care
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Comment
Personal budgets and PbR offer integration stepping stones
How to transform mental health services
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News
Exclusive: CCGs and councils set to pool more than £5bn in 2015-16
Councils and NHS commissioners are set to share pooled budgets of more than £5bn in 2015-16 under the better care fund, HSJ has learned.
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NAO warns over adult social care cuts
Most of the “significant” drop in spending on social care has come from cuts to services, particularly for the elderly, according to the National Audit Office.
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Labour review: councils must prove "readiness" to take on care of "frail" patients
A report commissioned by Labour on how to bring about integrated care has backed an evolutionary approach to giving health and wellbeing boards the lead role in planning local services.
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NICE calls for training to help victims of domestic violence
Nurses, social workers, health services and the organisations they work with must be better trained to understand domestic violence and help those experiencing it, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Can councils have a role in commissioning support?
CCGs will soon expect real choice in the support market
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HSJ Knowledge
The impact of the better care fund on CCGs explained
Diverting billions into integrated care has huge implications
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Analysis: better care fund decision offers a universal solution
The Department of Health’s decision not to withhold better care fund cash from areas struggling to improve performance looks at first glance like a softening of central control.
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Ministers: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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MPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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No integration pioneers win 'accelerator' status
NHS England has reneged on its plan to give a designated “integration pioneer” area special status as a centre of best practice in the use of its £260m technology fund.
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Miliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Where is the evidence for promoting integrated care?
We are not measuring the impact on patients
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News
Exclusive: Cash penalties axed for care fund failure
The Department of Health has scrapped plans to withhold money from areas that fail to deliver performance improvements through joint commissioning with local authorities.