All Integrated care articles – Page 18
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Comment
'Congratulations. You just solved the workforce crisis'
This week, Martin Plackard, head of strategic communications at NHS Blithering, answers some frequently asked questions about strategy and shares his top tips with Julian Patterson
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Layers or enablers – the ICS identity crisis
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by primary care reporter Shruti Sheth Trivedi.
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Comment
'We want you to feel liberated' says NHSE
As NHS England prepares to relax its grip, system leaders can look forward to a new era of earned autonomy, writes Julian Patterson
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News
Half of ICSs have no ‘partnership’ chair or ‘place’ leads
Less than a month before integrated care systems take over from clinical commissioning groups, half have not selected a chair of their partnership board, and more than half have yet to appoint the executive leaders of their constituent ‘places’, HSJ research has found.
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Expert Briefing
Mental health trusts fear an ICS funding squeeze
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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HSJ Partners
Integrating primary care – action on the estate
The Fuller Stocktake report recognises the fragmentation across the primary care estate, and that to create the right environment for change first there needs to be an understanding of what they have, writes Wendy Farrington-Chadd
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News
Government to pick ‘integration frontrunners’ to test ‘radical new approaches’
Government will pick five or six ‘integration frontrunner’ areas ‘to lead the way in developing and testing radical new approaches’ to speeding up discharge from acute hospitals.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The re-emergence of the purchaser-provider split
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 Local
New ICS chief: ‘I’m being managed in a straitjacket’
A new system leader has said she has felt like she is ‘in a straitjacket’ since being in the post, and asked for greater acknowledgement that ‘I might actually know what I’m doing’.
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News
Spending on regulation has ‘gone too far’, says NHSE chief
Sir David Sloman has said the proportion of the NHS budget being spent on regulation has ‘gone too far’ and needs to be shifted to frontline services.
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ICS leader: We’re still facing short-sighted trusts
An integrated care system chair has said systems will still face ’short-sighted’ competitive behaviour from trusts, citing a trust chair who didn’t want his staff to take part in a system-wide executive development programme.
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Javid wants top leaders to leave ‘walled gardens’ and take over struggling trusts
Sajid Javid has said ‘underperforming’ trusts could be forced to join ‘reform partnerships’ designed to spread the NHS’s best leaders across areas which are struggling.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: 12 great expectations
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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News
Revealed: The top-performing ICSs defying deprivation challenges
A cluster of integrated care systems across the North of England has bucked the trend to deliver successful integration schemes and better patient outcomes despite high levels of deprivation, new analysis has found.
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News
Trusts may have to close services to make savings, say NHS leaders
The tight financial envelope facing the NHS could force trusts to close services in some areas and ‘streamline’ them to single sites, NHS Providers has warned.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The swollen centre
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by primary care reporter Shruti Sheth Trivedi.
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News
ICSs face test to take on billions worth of services
England’s 42 health systems will be assessed in November and December this year on whether they are ready to commission 65 specialised services that the centre has said should be delegated, NHS England announced today.
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News
NHSE urges system leaders to ‘understand’ primary care in their areas
An NHS England director has urged integrated care system leaders to better understand primary care in their areas.
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News
CCG cancels contract extension after private equity buys Virgin Care
West Country commissioners will not extend their contract with the firm formerly known as Virgin Care, citing concerns about ‘ongoing contractual and financial risks’ arising from the firm’s takeover by a private equity firm.
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Comment
New strategy chief pledges 'every priority is my top priority'
Bold new appointments mark Joy Hunter’s determination to shake up the leadership team at the country’s most challenged health economy, writes Julian Patterson