All Local government articles – Page 43
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Blogs
Hunt's care plan puts burden on family before state
Jeremy Hunt’s proposals for looking after older people are all about ‘care closer to home’
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Blogs
Managers − always look on the bright side
Despite cuts to their budget, social services leaders appear to be relentlessly optimistic
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News
Details of £3.8bn integration fund revealed
The amount of progress clinical commissioning groups and councils make in working together next year will help determine their area’s share of the £3.8bn fund for health and care integration from 2015, it has been revealed.
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News
Burnham tells councils 'caveats' will be placed on health role
The shadow health secretary has warned councils would not be given “free rein” under his plan to put the lion’s share of NHS funding in local government’s hands.
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Blogs
No one can provide quality care in 15 minutes
The increasing use of “pop in” calls by social services departments will make people who need care even more vulnerable
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Comment
Fuel poverty is a healthcare issue
Evidence shows the link between cold homes and ill health
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News
Labour moots free social care for all
Labour is considering a radical plan to make social care free at the point of need and funded through taxation, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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News
DH rejects criticism of delayed transfer of care measure
The Department of Health has rejected criticism of the measure it uses to track delayed transfers of care between NHS providers and social care.
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News
Judge blocks review of reconfiguration scheme
Ealing Council has been refused permission to take a hospital reconfiguration plan to judicial review.
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News
Councils fear they will be denied infant public health responsibility
Council chief executives fear they will be prevented from taking responsibility for infant public health amid Whitehall concern they would not implement a flagship coalition pledge to boost health visitor numbers by 4,200.
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News
Areas with worse life quality would be hit by allocation shake-up
Clinical commissioning groups in areas where people with long term conditions have a worse quality of life would lose funds under the revised allocation formula being considered by NHS England, analysis shows.
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Supplements
'The signs were there, but weren't picked up'
Heart sinking’ experiences of being called to crises for patients he had never seen have made Professor Michael Kirby an ardent advocate of health checks, reports Jennifer Trueland
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Supplements
Critical point for checks − an HSJ/LGC supplement
How to increase the uptake of NHS Health Check
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Supplements
Go to the mosques and temples – Health Check case study
How can health checks be more successful? One London borough is reaching out further into communities, while charities believe the checks themselves could be broader
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HSJ Local
Hospital unit closure challenged
A council is to mount a legal challenge over the closure of maternity and A&E units that David Cameron once vowed to save.
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Comment
Michael White: Labour homes in on 'whole person care'
Reintegrating health and housing has been proposed
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News
GP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
NHS England may contribute additional funding to bolster the £3.8bn integration transformation fund announced in the 2013 comprehensive spending review, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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News
GP commissioning not accountable, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said he opposes “GP control or domination of commissioning” because it is not “accountable” and compromises “the public interest”.
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News
Burnham: NHS 'hearts and minds' behind my integration plan
NHS staff will back further reorganisation of the NHS by a Labour government because their “hearts and minds” are behind the party’s plans for integration of the health and social care systems, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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News
Social care spend falls by 2pc
Council spending on adult social care fell by 2 per cent last year, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.