All Local government articles – Page 52
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HSJ Local
Surrey health and wellbeing board lauded in Westminster
STRUCTURE: Surrey County Council cabinet member for adult social care and health Michael Gosling has spoken at a Westminster event about improving health and wellbeing.
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HSJ Knowledge
How localism really can be achieved in healthcare provision
Critics of the Health Act say the reform plans are about central control. In reality, the exact opposite is achievable if people are committed to making it happen, says John Rooke.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex DPH given national role
WORKFORCE: Diana Grice, director of public health for East Sussex, has been appointed vice president of the Association of the Directors of Public Health.
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Acute trusts absent from local wellbeing boards
Emerging health and wellbeing boards believe they will successfully shape local health policies and drive service integration. But many boards still lack input from NHS providers, a survey shared exclusively with HSJ reveals.
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Essex trusts form limited company with university and council
STRUCTURE: South Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust has formed a limited company with four other NHS trusts, Essex County Council and a university.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to create an IT solution to support integrated local care
How can you create a “ground up” solution to support integrated care and meet local needs – and can this deliver clinical benefits and cost savings? Sean Riddell offers some advice.
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Labour plots service changes through local authorities
Labour will attempt to link “waste, waits, stresses and strains” in the NHS to the government’s reforms, and try to redesign services through the local authorities it runs.
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HSJ Local
Hillingdon Council removes social workers from Hilingdon Hospital
WORKFORCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation Trust saw social workers withdrawn from its main hospital site by the local authority, minutes of the January board meeting revealed.
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Pickles backs NHS workers' 'right to wear cross'
Cabinet minister Eric Pickles has supported demands for Christians to be allowed to wear crosses at work as two NHS workers take their case to Strasbourg.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex PCTs ties charity grants to outcomes
COMMERCIAL: The East Sussex primary care trust cluster and local authority is to offer up to £8m worth of commissions to voluntary and community organisations.
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SNP claim independence will safeguard NHS
Scotland’s National Health Service can only be “fully guaranteed” by independence, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Safer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services
The introduction of care navigators has revolutionised services for a London mental health trust’s older patients. Caroline Leveaux and colleagues explain.
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HSJ Local
Teen pregnancy rate falls by quarter in Brighton
PERFORMANCE: Targeted initiatives have helped reduce the rate of under 18s becoming pregnant by more than a quarter in Brighton, according to the local council.
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HSJ Local
AWP reaches agreement in council tendering row
COMMERCIAL: Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust has agreed to settle a legal action bought against North Somerset District Council over a recent tender exercise.
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HSJ Knowledge
Key insights into making health and wellbeing boards work
A local government simulation exercise provided a valuable insight into how health and wellbeing boards could - and need - to work in the near future. Hywel Lloyd and Helen Brown discuss the lessons learned.
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Further operational guidance for public health teams
Proportion of resources defined for supporting commissioners
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Council plans £100m loan to buy out foundation's PFI contracts
A local authority is in negotiations to lend up to £100m to a foundation trust seeking to buy out its private finance initiative contracts, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to empower GPs and local commissioners to deliver care
Community GPs and local government taking charge of care delivery is a goal that by Kent Health Commission could soon successfully realise. Paul Carter explains how it’s working.
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Welsh leader calls for Cameron 'humility'
David Cameron should find the “humility” to admit his party’s proposals to reform England’s NHS are wrong, Wales’ first minister Carwyn Jones has said.