Service design – Page 35
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NewsExclusive: Trust chiefs form joint committee across STP
Mental health leaders are creating a joint committee to standardise pathways and improve service quality across their sustainability and transformation partnership, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalEight CCGs to share chief officer and consider merger
All eight clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway are to work together as a single strategic commissioner and share an accountable officer.
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NewsLeading health system will not become 'full' ICS this year
A leading health system will not become a “fully operational” integrated care system this year as hoped, instead remaining in “shadow” form.
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HSJ LocalPeter Homa to head board for major trust collaboration
Peter Homa is to chair the board overseeing the collaboration between Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT.
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HSJ LocalTrust forced to rethink CAMHS as demand soars
A mental health trust has had to put more than half a million pounds extra into a “one stop” service for children and young people after referrals were close to double the expected levels.
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HSJ LocalCCG forced to change GP plans after NHS England director intervenes in row
NHS England’s primary care director has intervened in local dispute over the provision of extended GP opening hours in Derbyshire.
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CommentSpreading vanguard models won’t happen by edict: A national perspective
Successfully spreading vanguard new care models would require multiple methods, and for national bodies to give primacy to systems rather than individual providers or commissioners. By Jacob West
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HSJ LocalTrust merger plans 'likely' delayed by a year
The acquisition of a hospital trust by its high performing neighbour is now “likely” delayed for a whole year.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Major services shake up for troubled health economy
Community services across a swathe of the South West could be consolidated into a single service as a newly merged clinical commissioning group seeks to relieve pressure on hospitals.
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HSJ LocalLegal challenge pushes back £147m hospital reconfiguration
Plans to split two hospitals into emergency and elective care centres as part of a £147m reconfiguration are being held up by a judicial review, which could delay a long awaited trust merger.
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HSJ LocalThree STPs to share leader and form integrated care system
Three northern sustainability and transformation partnerships have appointed a single leader and are aiming to become an integrated care system by April 2019.
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HSJ LocalMilestone trust merger delayed until summer
A merger to create the biggest mental health and community trust in the country has been delayed.
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HSJ LocalTrust pump-primes new care model team
A trust is investing more than £1m to pump-prime a new community team for young mental health patients.
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News£60m capital boost for northern STP ambitions
More than £60m is to be invested in pathology, technology and improving efficiency across three sustainability and transformation partnerships in the north, following the government’s capital funding injection this week.
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HSJ LocalTrusts and NHS Improvement reach hospital takeover deal
One of the biggest hospital trusts in the country will form on Sunday following a deal being reached after months of wrangling with NHS Improvement.
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CommentLondon requires more patient care plans to provide bespoke care
Dr Fenella Wrigley urges much greater use of patient care plans to help pressured frontline crews make the right decisions when attending 999 calls
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HSJ LocalSingle accountable officer to lead six CCGs
Six clinical commissioning groups in Sussex are to share an accountable officer from next week – at the request of NHS England.
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HSJ LocalTrust extends winter pressures plan until summer
A trust with one of the worst-performing emergency departments in the country is planning to keep its extra winter capacity open until the summer, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalThree CCGs plan to consolidate across county boundary
Three clinical commissioning groups in Essex and Suffolk have set out plans to form a “single strategic commissioning body” across county boundaries as part of local plans to establish an integrated care system
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HSJ LocalRevealed: Acute and mental health trusts plan landmark merger
Two trusts have begun planning a merger to bring together acute, community, and mental health services into a single trust, HSJ can reveal.