All Long-term conditions articles – Page 14
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Comment
Self-referral will help overcome the biggest challenges in primary care
It’s at risk of becoming the longest running pilot scheme in the NHS
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News
Royal college: Changing surgical pathways could save money and lives
Hospitals could reduce length of stay and improve patient outcomes if they reimagine the way more than 10 million patients a year undergo surgery in the NHS, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ Local
Somerset CCG mulls early end to provider contracts
FINANCE: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group is considering whether to release itself from contracts with a number of local providers in a bid to reduce financial pressures.
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News
Policy delays risk 'preventable deaths', doctors warn NHS England
Letter says rare conditions drug policy is a “matter of extreme urgency” Doctors warn patient access could be delayed until 2016-17 NHS England to set out timetable for new specialised commissioning process soon Twenty senior doctors and experts have written an open letter to the NHS England board ...
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News
Revealed: Virgin handed £280m Staffordshire contract
Virgin Care has been awarded a £280m, seven-year prime provider contract to manage services in East Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Investment firm funds first NHS social impact bond
FINANCE: An investment firm has put £1.65m into what it claims to be the first social impact bond in the health service.
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HSJ Knowledge
Hospital mortality rates are a blunt instrument to measure avoidable death
Avoidable deaths mystery
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Supplements
HSJ commission final report: Are you doing enough for frail older people?
Putting questions to politicians, citizens and providers
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Supplements
Questions to ask to improve frail older people's services
As part of the third and final report from the Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People we set out the key questions that citizens, MPs, and care providers must be asked to improve care.
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HSJ Partners
Consider the needs of carers when commissioning end of life services
Coordinated care is cost effective
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HSJ Local
Southern Health rated ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: The country’s largest mental health and community services trust has been rated ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Partners
The right community care for the terminally ill can ease pressure in A&E
Improved care for terminally ill people can play a major part in reducing the burden on A&E departments
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News
Exclusive: Dementia care still 'inadequate', report finds
Care for people diagnosed with dementia is ‘inadequate and still not fit for purpose’, three years after the government launched its dementia challenge, a new report for the Alzheimer’s Society has said.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners seek to expand pharmacists’ role
COMMUNITY SERVICES: Pharmacists in the North East may be expected to expand their role to help reduce hospital admissions and identify more patients with previously undiagnosed long term conditions, commissioners have said.
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Comment
Next government must recognise that acute need is part of whole person care
Include frail older people
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Comment
Make parity a reality, not an afterthought
Bringing mental healthcare on a par with physical healthcare
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Supplements
Roundtable: What more people living longer with cancer means for the NHS
Taking the long view on cancer care
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Comment
Commissioners must help defuse England’s cancer time bomb
Tackling the looming cancer challenge