All Nuffield Trust articles – Page 18
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HSJ KnowledgeHow predictive modelling can help reduce risk, and hospital admissions
Accurate prediction of patients at risk is central to preventing admissions, but funding to develop predictive models has been withdrawn by the DH. Geraint Lewis and colleagues look at some of the tools available to local commissioners now charged reducing admissions.
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NewsMonitor could suspend competition to encourage integration models
Monitor’s chief executive has set out a range of measures the future regulator will consider as it works to reconcile competition and service integration.
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Comment'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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NewsProviding integrated care won't be easier for CCGs, study suggests
Clinical commissioning groups will find it no easier than primary care trusts to provide integrated care unless they are able to overcome perverse incentives, a report has found.
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NewsDrop in admission rates hailed as possible CCG success
A drop in hospital admission rates has been hailed by NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson as evidence that clinical commissioning is beginning to deliver improvements in care.
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CCGs setting spending priorities urged to 'be brave'
Most primary care trust commissioners believe they have struggled with setting priorities for health spending in their area, according to a new research report.
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Nuffield Trust responds to Future Forum report
The NHS Future Forum is right to highlight primacy of the efficiency challenge, according to the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsGP reforms will prevent 'Mid Staffs' scandals
The government’s commissioning reforms will help prevent scandals such as those at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by ensuring GPs do what “they ought to do”, the health secretary has said.
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NewsNHS faces reform challenges - Nuffield Trust
The NHS faces challenges in ensuring safe and stable healthcare while the government’s reforms are implemented, according to a new report.
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NewsGovernment amends Health Bill
*** UPDATED*** The government has laid an amendment to its Health and Social Care bill removing the previous reference to the tariff being the “maximum” price.
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NewsBetter data sharing 'could boost social-care prevention'
Councils and the NHS should be sharing data more effectively to better predict which residents are most likely to need “intensive social care”, according to health think-tank the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsConfed future in doubt following FT network split
The Foundation Trust Network’s decision to become an independent body has sparked fears over the future of the NHS Confederation.
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NewsNHS reforms 'risk patient backlash'
An influential health think tank has warned that the proposed radical changes to the NHS could turn patients against GPs because doctors are likely to start receiving “unpalatable” cash bonuses.
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NewsConsortia need strong support and to integrate, finds Nuffield research
Research on clinical commissioning groups in the US suggests young consortia in the UK need a lot of support and must work with other sectors if they are to survive.
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NewsThink tanks warn reforms are distraction from QIPP
The King’s Fund has warned that the government’s overhaul of the health service may not increase productivity or drive up quality.
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NewsSocial care cuts may raise hospital spend
Researchers have laid bare how cuts to adult social care could lead to significant extra demand for acute services.
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CommentThe NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts
The NHS’s funding increase is actually a 0.5 per cent cut - efficiency savings of 4-5 per cent will have to be found.
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NewsExpert predicts GP consortia failure
Many GP led commissioning consortia will fail, a US expert on doctors’ groups has told a Nuffield Trust lecture.
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NewsTreasury confirms £5.5bn DH underspends are lost
The respected health thinktank the Nuffield Trust has obtained confirmation the Department of Health will not be given access to the surpluses it has accumulated since 2007-08.
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NewsBudget increase will not be passed down to services, says King's Fund
The real terms increase in health funding will be “swallowed up” by rising costs in the NHS, John Appleby has warned in response to the spending review.