All Integrated care articles – Page 90
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CommentFree from the dead hand of Connecting for Health
“We need to link the technology to see the benefits people want”
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NewsNicholson: savings from integration 'already spent'
Policy makers should beware of thinking that integrating health and care services will save money, Sir David Nicholson has warned.
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HSJ Local
Weston now compliant with CQC standards on patient discharge
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has judged Weston Area Health Trust is now compliant with requirements to co-operate with other providers.
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CommentCommunity care should be the NHS's first option
Community FTs are crucial to the mandate’s aspirations
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Blogs
Lessons from Boston on integrated care
Pamela Garside reports back from her trip to the US in winter last year to explore “value-based healthcare”.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe building blocks for integrated care
Six key building blocks are required for the delivery of integrated care
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NewsProviders to roll out integrated care across Kent
Integrated health and social care teams are expected to in place across Kent by April, as part of an ambitious county-wide plan to better coordinate services for patients with long-term conditions.
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News
Joint commissioning reforms 'are disruptive'
The reality of joint commissioning in health and social care often falls short of expectations, according to a report.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the integration of health and social care in Kent
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the Kent and Medway health economy, which is in the process of integrating its community health and social care services.
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Blogs
The prospects for health and social care in 2013
The pressure and demands on the NHS in 2013 will be so great it will be impossible to duck the big questions about what kind of health and care system we are willing to fund.
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CommentTransforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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HSJ KnowledgeFast-forward to quicker discharge
Trusts should look to processes closer the home to reduce delayed discharge
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS must be smart in how it buys technology
A single electronic system is essential to providing true value
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HSJ Local
Single Torbay takeover partner shortlisted
STRUCTURE: Only one organisation has been shortlisted to take over Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust, board papers reveal.
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Blogs
A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
CCGs have the opportunity to reform patterns of service provision and ways of working.A decade of austerity could spur on some long overdue changes to our health and care system..
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NewsHunt: I'm open to NHS or private sector solutions
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ it is “not my job to hold a candle” for either NHS or private sector providers when deciding what is best for patients.
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NewsInformation governance blamed for holding up QIPP integration
A “computer says no” attitude to information governance is hampering attempts to draw up a “year of care tariff” by stopping trusts sharing costings data, HSJ has been told.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 6 December 2012
Support for Jeremy Hunt’s “technology revolution”, and an assertion that NHS providers are better placed than independent ones to provide integrated secure services
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NewsExclusive: 'Rapid reduction' in hospital care planned following Winterbourne View
The treatment of all people with learning disabilities or autism receiving inpatient care is to be reviewed, ahead of a drive to rapidly reduce hospital placements and increase community provision.
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CommentHow to make integration work
Achieving the health secretary’s “holy grail” of integrated care requires big changes