All Integrated care articles – Page 14
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: When ‘no strategy’ is best
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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HSJ Interactive
How can integrated care systems make the best use of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services?
At a recent HSJ webinar an expert panel explored how medicines optimisation can work at an ICS level. Thelma Agnew reports
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Comment
Performance management is making a comeback, here's how to stop it
If local teams can reshape demand with a risk-based approach the work to improve flow becomes quickly effective. By Dr Andy Haynes, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri and Sir John Tooke
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Comment
How ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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News
Nine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in ‘accelerating’ the development of the approach across the service.
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News
‘Local management’ harder in ‘enormous’ trusts, says new NHS Providers chief
The new chief executive of NHS Providers has told HSJ he will champion the development of provider collaboratives in the role, and stressed there is no ‘schism’ between them and integrated care systems.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Julian Hartley on collaboration, reform and why he became NHS Providers’ CEO
Fresh from starting work as NHS Providers’ new chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley joins HSJ Health Check to talk about collaboration, strikes, reform and more.
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Comment
System working thrives in a culture that empowers staff to improve care
Len Richards explains how system working grows from the right culture, clinical leadership and systemwide joined up, real-time data
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News
Thirty-five ICSs publish first ‘integrated care strategies’
Seven integrated care systems have not yet published a version of their integrated care strategy, despite government setting a deadline of the end of 2022 to do so.
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HSJ Partners
Intelligent disease management ‘vital’ to NHS survival
The insidious burden of chronic disease has been growing for decades draining resources, expanding health inequalities and multiplying costs. Paul McGinness, chief executive, Lenus Health, explains how proactive pathway automation builds system resilience.
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Expert Briefing
ImPatient: With no budgets to squeeze, true patient voice could safeguard services
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision-making. In this new monthly ‘expert briefing’, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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HSJ Partners
Using linked data because ‘first-come, first-served’ is not equal
Optum facilitates systems and hospitals in incorporating a population health management approach, ensuring that the system is driven by population need rather than first-come, first-served.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Takeover and a makeover
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: PbR’s return leaves the NHS between two stools
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Comment
When not to collaborate
The fashionable stance for any NHS strategy at the moment is to set out the highest number of partnerships possible to get involved in, at the risk of no collaboration properly adding value, writes Richard Taunt
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News
‘Truly integrated’ service model scrapped after failure to improve care
A contract aimed at achieving a ‘truly integrated’ health and social care service is set to be terminated after six years, following concerns about accountability and performance.
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News
Ten senior health and council leaders drafted in to boost Hewitt ICS review
Leaders from trusts, integrated care systems and local authorities are to take charge of five workstreams within Patricia Hewitt’s review of ICS autonomy and accountability.
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News
‘Landmark’ integrated trust faces axe
Health leaders in the Midlands are considering winding down or merging an NHS trust that was supposed to hold a ‘landmark’ integrated care contract worth £360m, according to trust papers.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: Inside NHS England's £500m data gamble
Bids are open for NHS England’s new £480m national data platform – will it make the NHS better connected and more efficient, or is it a national vanity project? We also discuss who the successful bidders might be.
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Comment
Action needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.