All Integrated care articles – Page 20
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HSJ InteractiveWorkforce planning across ICS’s
Thinking differently about workforce, including having hybrid models of employment, where people work for both health and social care, can help deliver care closer to home
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NewsEvery ICS expected to break even in ‘harsh’ new regime
Every health and care system — including those carrying huge deficits going into the pandemic — will be told to deliver financial balance in 2022-23, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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CommentTrusts must resolve tensions between local and regional priorities as reforms bite
Georgia Butterworth writes about place-based working and the ingredients for success
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NewsDischarge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The South West’s nightmare may soon spread to the rest of England
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 LocalCouncils always ‘leader of place’, says top health system
A prominent integrated care board has set out various options for how to structure its local leadership teams – but stressed councils will be the leaders of ‘place’.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Why the two-year waiters target could be already doomed
Is it time to rethink how the NHS manages its elective waiting list? On this week’s episode we talk about the worryingly high number of people waiting over two years for their planned care – and the alarming number which do not even have a decision to admit.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Are 50,000 more nurses enough in a post-pandemic world?
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Saving the primary care network 20,000
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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CommentShould the General Medical Services contract be scrapped?
In his 2019 independent review of the partnership model, Nigel Watson concluded that the ‘partnership model is not dead’. Almost three years, and a pandemic later, is it time for a rethink, ask Robert Ede, Dr David Landau and Sean Phillips
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HSJ LocalICS appoints chief executive after second try
A senior Whitehall official is set to be the new chief executive of Greater Manchester’s health system, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersCan the NHS COVID App’s scale and impact be a model for NHS digital transformation?
Developed during the pandemic, the NHS COVID App illustrates how major policy changes can be embedded into patient-focused digital technology in a short time frame.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The return of payment by results
NHS England has introduced significant changes to the mechanism that is used to pay hospitals, with the era of covid ‘block contracts’ finally coming to an end.
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CommentCommunities – not hospitals – are key to a thriving NHS
We need to make community-powered prevention a valued part of the system, writes Prof Donna Hall
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PodcastHSJ podcast: How to fix an NHS trust
NHS trusts are getting better – that’s the view of the Care Quality Commission, at least, which now rates only a single organisation as “inadequate”, and two-thirds as “good” or “outstanding”, a big shift from five years ago.
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CommentIf ‘place’ is working, it should feel uncomfortable
The government’s new health white paper sets out steps towards what ‘joined-up care’ will really mean, finally recognising the centrality of place. Claire Kennedy finds much to celebrate, as well as big questions to be answered.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will NHS regions ‘get out of the way’?
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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NewsGovernment agrees Health and Care Bill concessions
The government has approved several changes to the Health and Care Bill, including transparency on mental health funding, in a move sector leaders have hailed an ‘important step forward for parity’.
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NewsNHS not ‘human’ enough to get greater role in social care, says government review
The NHS should not be given greater control of social care because it is ‘hierarchical, centralised and not person-centred’, according to a government-commissioned review which is repeatedly scathing about the health service.
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CommentPlace is a state of mind
With integration ready to move into a first exciting phase, it’s time for a refreshed national vision of systemness, writes Martin Plackard