Service design – Page 17
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CommentThe three key tests for the comprehensive spending review
Charlotte Augst shares her insights on the need to strengthen places and communities to overcome inequalities and rebuild the health and wellbeing sector
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HSJ PartnersRecovering cancer services from covid will take all of us
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more Delivering healthcare is complicated and one of the barriers to improving it has always been the very wide range of different organisations who have a role but don’t always work together smoothly. The pandemic ...
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HSJ PartnersISO 27001 certification offers a secure choice for NHS organisation
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more The global pandemic caused by covid-19 has taught us many things about the way we live and work. For NHS Greater Manchester Shared Services, it put into practice months of hard work and demonstrated ...
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HSJ LocalMore mental health trusts will merge with acutes, chief predicts
The development of the integrated care agenda will see more mental health providers merging with acute trusts, an experienced chief executive has forecast.
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NewsChief exec of NHS agency resigns
The man reponsible for leading the troubled NHS Supply Chain agency has resigned, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersDeveloper S.106 contributions: The key to sustainable communities
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more The shortage of housing across the UK is a well-known fact; residential development is needed, and fast, particularly in the current economic climate. However, it is vital to ensure that the impact of these ...
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CommentHow CVDprevent will close the gap on poor primary care performance
The national audit for cardiovascular disease will include six high risk conditions with extracts of routinely recorded general practice data being monitored and managed for reducing impact on patients. By Dr Matt Kearney and Lorraine Oldridge.
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NewsGovernment tenders £785m testing contract
The Department of Health and Social Care will spend up to £785m on a new service to pack and deliver covid home test kits over the next two years, according to tender documents published today.
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HSJ LocalTop acute trust was ‘flying blind’ on population’s health
A major London acute trust has published a profile of its catchment population, having acknowledged that it was previously ‘effectively flying blind’ on health improvement.
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NewsRush to meet election promise risks hospital rebuild ‘disaster zone’
A major hospital rebuild may become a ‘disaster zone’ because of a rush to meet the government’s election promise to deliver new facilities quickly, a Conservative MP has warned.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: ‘Top tranche’ theory trumps reality in H*nc*ckl*nd
Andy Cowper sheds light on the performace of SAS test and trace as it fails to meet 46 per cent of the targets set.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Mental Health Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Foundation Trust, Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group, South Cheshire CCG and Vale Royal CCG: Redesigning adult and older people’s mental health services Covering the populations of Cheshire East and Vale Royal (7,000 people accessing specialist mental health services), this redesign is centred on service users, ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Primary Care or Community Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS): Acute Home Visiting Service The Acute Home Visiting Service is a responsive and effective home visiting service for patients that prevents them attending accident and emergency and relieves GP workload. Any housebound or care home patient requiring an acute same day visit from a ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Specialist Service Redesign Initiative
Winner Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust: Place Based Paediatrics The place based paediatric offer across Tameside and Glossop consists of a number of initiatives that support children and their families being seen and treated by the most appropriate professional, at the right time and in the right place: ...
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
Winner West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG: RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents RESTORE2 is a project to support staff in care and nursing homes to proactively recognise and manage physical deterioration in order to improve resident experience and ...
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NewsExclusive: Commercial covid labs seek NHS support
The private sector component of England’s national covid testing regime is running short on capacity and has asked the NHS for help, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ LocalTwo paediatric EDs in region to close for the winter
Two of the five paediatric emergency departments in north central London are to close through the winter, HSJ has learnt.
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HSJ PartnersA bright future for genomics and gene therapy in the UK
In a four-part series, bluebird bio is exploring how the NHS can embrace the power of gene therapy as a treatment for rare diseases in the UK, including some of the systemic changes that will be needed. In this second column, Jonathan Appleby, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s chief ...
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NewsHancock says new ‘standalone’ body could take PHE’s remaining functions
A new public health agency could be formed to take on the health improvement and prevention functions of the soon-to-be-defunct Public Health England, the health secretary said today.
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Comment‘Give the NHS what it needs, or tell public that cuts are on the way’
On capital funding the government needs to give the NHS an appropriate capital settlement to meet its manifesto commitments, recover care backlogs and reform social care, writes Chris Hopson.