Service design – Page 23
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HSJ LocalMerging trusts target £20m annual savings
NHS chiefs in Somerset say a merger between the county’s main acute and community and mental health trusts will deliver annual recurrent savings of nearly £20m.
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HSJ LocalFour-way CCG merger planned for April
Four clinical commissioning groups in Lincolnshire have announced plans to merge in April, amid a wave of similar decisions around the country.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Acute or specialist service redesign initiative – London and the South
WINNER: Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation Trust – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Home Treatment Team
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Community or primary care service redesign – North, Midlands and East
WINNER: Hull Clinical Commissioning Group – The Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2019: Community or primary care service redesign – London and the South
WINNER: Hertfordshire Community Trust – East & North Referral Hub Customer Service Transformation
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NewsRevealed: The NHS trusts acting as PCN "bankers"
Four NHS trusts have established a foothold in primary care networks, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRevealed: 40 per cent of PCNs flout NHSE guidance on size
Two in five primary care networks fall outside the recommended population thresholds set by NHS England to help maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of the new structures, HSJ analysis shows.
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HSJ LocalStruggling trust forms new partnership with neighbour
Isle of Wight’s struggling integrated trust is partnering with a mainland provider in Hampshire, which will help it deliver mental health services.
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NewsUpdated: Third large CCG merger confirmed in south east
At least 35 CCGs have been approved to merge in April 2020 The first London CCG mergers have been announced Twenty clinical commissioning groups have been given the green light to merge from NHS England and NHS Improvement, HSJ can confirm.
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HSJ InteractiveHow to transform outpatient care
Innovative approaches are needed to efficiently deliver the main functions of outpatient care, write Ben Horner and Rishi Das-Gupta
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NewsBatch of CCG mergers approved for next year
NHS England has approved a first tranche of clinical commissioning group mergers for April 2020, but has declined to say which ones.
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CommentWe need to rethink our approach to patient safety
Dr Suzette Woodward describes in her latest book a more positive approach to patient safety that seeks to learn how things normally happen in order to understand why they failed in that instance
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HSJ Local‘Temporary’ A&E overnight closure made permanent
The “temporary” overnight closure of one of England’s smallest accident and emergency departments is set to become permanent, following a unanimous vote by commissioners.
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Half of flagship new care models made no savings - evaluation
Half of NHS England’s flagship new care models for mental health did not make “significant savings”, an independent evaluation has suggested.
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NewsFull maternity services at hospital axed for ‘foreseeable future’
Commissioners have extended the temporary closure of an obstetrics unit for the “foreseeable future” after difficulties staffing it.
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CommentWhy we need to protect the “engine rooms” of developing STP/ICS partnerships
Nick Ville reflects on the “engine room” of developing STP/ICS partnerships, their fragility and why they are too important not to be properly resourced
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CommentWhen doctors must report deaths to coroners
Josiah Kirpalani on shaping the future relationship between medical examiners and senior coroners
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HSJ LocalSpecial measures trust looking for ‘partner’ for failing services
An integrated trust in special measures is looking to “partner” with another NHS organisation for mental health services, amid a wider move for reconfiguration.
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HSJ InteractiveHow to provide community-based early intervention in mental ill health
An HSJ roundtable, sponsored by XenZone, looked at the advantages of early intervention, increasing primary prevention and the role of digital in improving outcomes
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HSJ LocalTrusts delay ‘integrated care’ merger until 2020
Health chiefs have pushed back a merger which would create one of England’s first acute, mental health and community services trusts.