All Local government articles – Page 38
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HSJ Knowledge
Tackling the race issue at the heart of mental health care
Why are so many young black men subject to compulsory treatment?
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News
NHS plans 'radical upgrade' in public health
The NHS will become an ‘activist agent’ of social change in a ‘radical upgrade’ of prevention and public health, under plans announced today.
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News
NHS leaders cautious on extension of better care fund
The better care fund should not be extended until the impact of its first full year of operation has been properly evaluated, NHS leaders have said
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Comment
Local integration needs national backing: Five steps for government
The county is finding that health and social care integration requires central government action
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HSJ Local
Council terminates £3.6m agreement with mental health trust
STRUCTURE: Norfolk County Council has ended its formal agreement with a mental health trust after losing confidence in its capacity to guarantee outcomes for social care service users.
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HSJ Partners
Health and social care should combine in a new 'NCS'
Pool funding into a National Care Service
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HSJ Local
Staffordshire council votes against hearing aid charging
FINANCE: Proposals by North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group to cut funding for hearing aids have been opposed by a local authority scrutiny committee.
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Supplements
Facilities management special report: Integrate the estates
Boosting integration through smarter use of estates
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News
Councils call for primary care commissioning role
Councils in London have asked to be given greater involvement in the commissioning of primary care.
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News
Exclusive: Ombudsman seeks new powers to investigate NHS
A new public services ombudsman should be established with powers to probe the decisions of clinical commissioning groups and councils, the Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman has said.
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Supplements
LGC/HSJ Integration Summit report: The legal angles
The implications of new integration legislation
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News
Lamb proposes new laws to empower health and wellbeing boards
New laws should be introduced in the next parliament to give health and wellbeing boards extra powers including the ability to independently hold budgets, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.
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News
Lib Dems propose health and wellbeing boards commission primary care
The Liberal Democrats want GP services to be commissioned by health and wellbeing boards, according to a paper setting out the party’s likely policy direction in the run up to next year’s general election.
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HSJ Local
Somerset abandons alliance ambitions
STRUCTURE: A pioneering project to improve the integration of care in south Somerset has abandoned its ambition to boost cooperation among providers with an ‘alliance contract’.
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News
Burnham: Change will be 10 year journey not a ‘big bang’
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has today unveiled further details of his 10 year plan to merge health and social care
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News
First wave integration plans aim low on emergency activity
Four of the first five better care fund plans to receive official approval are all aiming for less than the ‘expected minimum target’ of a 3.5 per cent reduction in emergency admissions.
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HSJ Partners
How NHS England uses interactive mapping to give CCGs strategic insight
To identify local priorities
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News
Cut to councils' public health budgets
Local authorities’ core public health funding will be cut in real terms in 2015-16, it has been announced