All Local government articles – Page 50
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NewsHealthwatch England appoints chief executive
A former adviser to the prime minister has been appointed chief executive of the new consumer champion for health and social care.
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NHS Hillingdon to work with mental health, hospital trust and local authority to make savings
FINANCE: NHS Hillingdon is to work with its mental health and acute trusts, and council, to “come to agreements that would support the whole of the health economy” as it faces a £5m savings gap.
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Barnsley announces linked health and social care record
COMMERCIAL: Barnsley Council has used systems provided by Liquidlogic, part of McKesson, to link social care records in real time to NHS records.
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Integration plans for Kent community services
STRUCTURE: Kent Community Health Trust and Kent County Council have unveiled proposals to integrate health and social care services.
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Somerset QIPP plans get green light
FINANCE: Somerset Primary Care Trust’s QIPP plans have been rated green by NHS South of England.
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CommentLabour's vision of 21st century care
Liz Kendall outlines the approach Labour would take to NHS reform
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NewsMPs warned about public health shortfalls
Councils’ public health budgets will fall well short of what is required to meet need in their areas, an influential committee of MPs has been told.
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Integrated CCG sidesteps government's councillor ban
North East Lincolnshire CCG has developed a novel governance structure including representation from councillors, so it can take on an adult social care budget.
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'Substantial' hole in many public health budgets
Many local authorities will inherit a “substantial” hole in their public health budgets when they take over responsibility for the role next year, research by the British Medical Association has revealed.
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NewsLamb sets social care cap deadline
The care minister has promised a “significant breakthrough” in the government’s plan to introduce a cap on social care costs by 2015.
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Care UK wins Suffolk care home contract
Suffolk County Council has awarded Care UK a contract to develop 10 new care homes and 10 new wellbeing centres.
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Living rooms turning into virtual wards to cut admissions
STRUCTURE: Living rooms in Surrey are becoming hospital wards in a scheme that aims to cut admissions.
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Joint commissioning to continue in Bath and North East Somerset
STRUCTURE: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is developing a joint commissioning framework with the local council.
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NewsNHS commissioners could be made to pool budgets with councils
Care and Support Bill may require CCGs to pool budgets with local authorities
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NewsCuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'
Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned.
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NewsSelbie: NHS has not 'done much good'
The new chief executive of Public Health England has said the NHS’s effort to improve health and reduce illness over the past four decades “hasn’t worked and has not been sufficient”.
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Cornish staff 'unconvinced' by strategic partnership plans
WORKFORCE: Staff representatives at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust are “unconvinced” by plans to work with other public sector organisations in the county to deliver back of house services.
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Gloucestershire patients rate telehealth
PERFORMANCE: Almost 90 per cent of patients receiving telehealth services in Gloucestershire would recommend the service to their friends and family, an anonymous survey by NHS Gloucestershire has found.
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Trust criticised over new Pembury bus deal
FINANCE: A Kent NHS trust has come under fire for reneging on a deal to fund buses bringing patients to its new hospital, saying it needed the money for frontline services.