All Service redesign articles – Page 28
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NewsPublic health charity to close as DHSC cuts funds
A public health charity providing “vital” services has been forced to close this year after losing most of its government funding.
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HSJ InteractiveThe duty of candour: a timely reminder to providers
Joanna Sharr explores the Care Quality Commission’s criminal enforcement powers if a provider fails to comply with the duty of candour
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CommentHow to close the "gulf" between the NHS and the voluntary sector
Both the voluntary and community sectors and the NHS have to change their behaviours to work well together, write Halima Khan and Paul Corrigan
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CommentLittle evidence that integrated care initiatives deliver
Theo Georghiou on how many evaluations find very little sign that integrated and community care initiatives produce reductions in costs or emergency admissions to hospital
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NewsCCG backs downgrade of 'temporarily closed' A&E
Commissioners are set to approve the permanent downgrade of the A&E department at the country’s smallest hospital trust.
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News'Inadequate' trust's controversial hospital reconfiguration approved
Plans to reconfigure acute services in Shropshire, resulting in the downgrading of one A&E, have been given the green light by commissioners.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed spinal surgery costs £23m in compensation
An “unacceptable” postcode lottery is leading to tens of millions being spent compensating patients left disabled by delayed treatment, a government report has found.
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HSJ InteractiveIntegrating care for children and young people
Jon Rouse on the renewed national emphasis on children and young people’s health, and how Greater Manchester is working specifically towards it
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NewsPilot surgery service to close treatment gap
East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust could become one of the first hospitals to offer thrombectomies for stroke patients outside a neuroscience centre as part of a six-month pilot.
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NewsTrusts told: Improve capital bids to get through nightmare process
Local NHS organisations have been told they need to submit better business cases for capital schemes, to have a better chance of getting through a “nightmarish” approval process.
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CommentWorking towards a paradigm shift in outcomes for lung cancer
Dr Mick Peake notes that a multipronged and co-ordinated approach to the management of lung cancer can help the UK improve its survival rate
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CommentPaediatric services must treat the "whole child"
Jane Elfer notes that to realise the long-term plan’s ambition of integrating care, paediatric services must be able to support childrens’ mental as well as physical health needs
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NewsNHSE and I has 'too many' top execs – staff concern
Staff at NHS England and NHS Improvement have raised concerns that the new structure of their organisations will comprise too many senior managers, HSJ can reveal.
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The centre 'thinks teaching hospitals are fat and rich'
University hospitals face bias from national leaders, and growing challenges from tightening funding and Brexit, their trade body has said.
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NewsNHS England wins legal dispute over largest medicines procurement
NHS England has seen off a legal challenge to its largest ever medicines procurement, which is aimed at acquiring drugs to help eliminate hepatitis C in the country by 2025.
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HSJ LocalHealth secretary asked to halt £1bn community services tender
An MP has asked health secretary Matt Hancock to halt the “potentially disastrous” procurement of community services worth more than £1bn, after claiming the process does not align with the NHS long-term plan.
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NewsKit procurement troubles slow down cancer test rollout
The rollout of a new bowel cancer test in England, which was due to start late last year, has been held up because supplier contracts for testing kits have not been signed.
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NewsTroubled trust moves major service in bid to improve flow
A special measures trust is shifting nearly all its elective orthopaedic work out of its main hospital as part of a raft of initiatives aimed at getting out of special measures.
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NewsRegional pathology services shake-up revealed
Pathology services in Kent and Medway could be delivered with a private sector partner or outsourced under options being considered by the area’s four acute trusts.
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NewsMental health budget worth £1.9bn 'to be devolved'
Mental health specialised commissioning will be fully devolved to providers within the next three years, according to the chief executive of a major mental health trust.