All Local government articles – Page 69
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Secure service referrals surge as prisons overfill
Commissioners are under significant financial pressure from a surge in referrals to secure mental health services fuelled by the recession and crowded prisons.
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HSJ Knowledge
Focus funding plans on people – not processes
Councils and the NHS are being urged to make service user experience the starting point for constructing their joint financial arrangements. Helen Mooney explains
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Scottish health boards urged to work more closely with councils
Sir John Arbuthnott has recommended closer working between Scottish councils and health boards as part of his review of shared services across the Clyde Valley.
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Comment
David Nicholson: ride the wave of NHS innovation
Linking quality and productivity via innovation to produce efficiency gains is the most important long term challenge facing the NHS, and it needs action at all levels
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Anger over NHS roads pledge to council
An NHS governor resigns after her primary care trust offered Durham County Council £1m towards gritting roads
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Zitron: scrap PCTs and cut bureaucracy
The chair of a London primary care trust has proposed scrapping PCTs. He said giving their commissioning role to local authorities would be an “excellent” way of reducing bureaucracy and bringing health services closer to the public.
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HSJ Knowledge
Integrated services: reducing hospital admissions among older people
Integrated services mean many older people can stay out of hospital while receiving care, says Stuart Shepherd
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Councils and NHS urged to drive joint funding
Councils and the NHS should examine how joint funding could help improve health and social care outcomes, according to an Audit Commission report.
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Hospital plans 'flawed', says former chief executive
A former hospital chief executive has waded in to an ongoing fight over the future of accident and emergency services in Telford.
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Civil servant pay freeze announced
A pay freeze for 750,000 public sector high earners, including senior NHS managers, GPs, council chiefs and judges, has been announced by chancellor Alistair Darling.
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Alan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has attacked Andy Burnham’s decision to move away from competition and make the NHS the “preferred provider” of services.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on no-frills healthcare
Who actually likes Ryanair? For the benefit of sustainably minded readers who would not dream of blowing their hard earned moolah on a cheap weekend in Bratislava, the Ryanair pricing model starts with an unfeasibly small headline fare, supplemented by an increasingly imaginative list of charges.
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London PCT and council consider merger
Waltham Forest council is attempting to merge with NHS Waltham Forest in a bid to protect the primary care trust before a potential reorganisation of London’s health structures.
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London health integration plan on the table
London’s boroughs are on the verge of sealing a deal to dramatically boost integration between councils and the NHS
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Essex Cares bids for PCT role
Essex County Council’s new social care trading company could earn upwards of £3m a year in dividends and may take over some local PCT services
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NHS boat scheme defended by council
A Hull councillor has defended a controversial NHS scheme that uses taxpayers’ money to train unemployed teenagers to sail boats.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to plan for cold weather with a swine flu pandemic looming
How can trusts put intensive care plans in place this winter with a swine flu pandemic looming, asks Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ Knowledge
Health overview and scrutiny committees: building better relationships
How can NHS trusts build an open, amiable relationship with local authority health committees? Stuart Shepherd explains
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NHS leaders vow to cut emissions by 10pc
NHS organisations are being urged to make a public commitment to cut their carbon dioxide emissions by at least 10 per cent during 2010.
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Comment
Stephen Eames on dementia strategy
I was startled when our nursing director pointed out that at any one time there could be up to 400 patients with dementia occupying beds in our hospitals.