Service design – Page 25
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NewsPrimary care networks begin management recruitment drive
The first wave of job adverts for the new workforce going into primary care networks have been posted online, including various new managerial roles.
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NewsTrust merger ‘inevitable’ despite ongoing funding issues
A trust chief executive has said merging with its leading neighbour is ‘inevitable’ despite ongoing failures to secure funding.
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HSJ LocalNeighbouring trusts to share chief executive and chair
England’s smallest acute trust will share a chief executive and chair with its larger neighbour with which it is merging.
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HSJ LocalCCG awards £1.2bn community services contract
A social enterprise has seen off two other rivals to win a £1.2bn community health contract aimed at bringing services together under one provider.
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CommentPrimary care networks are a quiet revolution
Primary care networks have huge potential, but how they interact with other NHS providers is crucial, argues Andrew Ridley
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NewsRevealed: Nearly half of CCGs planning mergers for 2020
Nearly half of clinical commissioning groups are proposing to merge next year in what would be the biggest cull of NHS organisations for more than a decade, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMapped: Sweeping CCG mergers planned for next year
HSJ’s map shows the 86 clinical commissioning groups proposing mergers in 2020, in what looks set to be the largest NHS consolidation for more than a decade.
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NewsFive CCGs plan merger to cut running costs
Five clinical commissioning groups in the north east of England are considering mergers to cut running costs, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTwo STPs launch joint acute services review
Two health economies will team up to reconfigure acute services which could result in shared services, separation of urgent and elective work, and staff sharing schemes.
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NewsRevealed: Acute trusts in talks over possible merger
Two acute trusts in the north east are exploring a possible merger as part of major changes to the region’s acute services, HSJ has learned.
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CommentBuild social prescribing into the architecture of the health system
Naomi Phillips on how social prescribing can reap benefits in the field of personalised care
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NewsStroke unit shutting down early after losing staff
A Kent stroke unit is to close seven months earlier than planned, as the loss of staff is putting patient safety at risk.
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CommentWhat about the patients? Experience is the weakest of the three arms of quality
This week: Annie Laverty, chief experience officer, Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
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CommentThe NHS' long-term plan deserves support
Independent MP Sarah Wollaston is optimistic that proposals for helping to deliver the long-term plan will survive the often stormy waters of parliamentary passage
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NewsTop GP provider to close practice after ‘big reduction’ in doctors
The prominent GP “super partnership” Modality will close one of five GP surgeries it runs in Hull, which it says will make its services in the city safe and sustainable.
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NewsHancock backs health and wellbeing boards power boost
Health and wellbeing boards should be “empowered” and expanded to boost the integration of health and adult social care services, Matt Hancock has said.
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NewsFirst community services spec will tie it to primary care
The NHS will create the first national specifications for community health services, which will be closely linked with primary care requirements, as NHS England seeks to get rid of the divide between the two sectors.
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NewsGPs to form 1,300 primary care networks
GP practices have formed 1,259 primary care networks across England, ranging from populations of less than 20,000 to more than 50,000.
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NewsPlan to break up CCG rejected
Sandwell and West Birmingham GPs have rejected a proposal to break-up their clinical commissioning group, despite the city’s local medical committee saying a vote against the split would be a “disaster”.
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HSJ LocalDGH launches service to grab market share from teaching hospitals
A north west London trust has launched a new vascular centre to challenge the capital’s major teaching hospitals a year after it was found to be struggling to provide adequate procedures