All Social care articles – Page 46
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HSJ Knowledge
Networking gives a lifeline to better patient care
How a CCG deployed ‘eco leadership’
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Comment
The better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
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HSJ Knowledge
Using the building blocks of joined up care
Projects across the country delivering integrated care
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HSJ Knowledge
Segment the population to enable better integrated care
Revealing patient needs holistically
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Comment
Tragic tale of 'Baby P' shows we shouldn't play the blame game
Distinguish accountability from blame
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HSJ Partners
How providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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News
Patient safety bill to legislate for zero NHS harm
The NHS could be required to achieve ‘zero avoidable harm’ if a government backed bill being driven through Parliament by the MP for Stafford makes it onto the statute books.
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News
Exclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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Supplements
Commissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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HSJ Knowledge
Out of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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HSJ Knowledge
Prevention is a better investment than cure
Preventing illness is a wiser use of money for CCGs
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News
Better care fund planning 'a shambles'
The planning process for the £5.3bn better care fund has been branded a “shambles” after a National Audit Office report pinpointed a series of problems with its implementation
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Comment
Is your board ready for a more open and transparent NHS?
Take account of a range of law changes affecting organisations
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News
Exclusive: Social care to benefit most under better care fund
Local authority run social care services will receive a greater financial benefit than NHS community services from the £5.3bn better care fund project, analysis reveals
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Comment
How to put the forward view's words into action
The NHS should be accountable for how it delivers what matters to patients
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News
Hunt: NHS has 'responsibility' to help councils
Health service must help with local government’s ‘tough financial settlement’, the health secretary has said
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Comment
Falls prevention: how to slash the NHS's £2bn bill
A quarter of ambulance callouts are for falls
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News
Exclusive: Ministers keen to extend joint commissioning
Ministers want to extend NHS joint commissioning with councils to public health and children’s services, after being convinced by the better care fund planning process that the model will reap service improvements and financial benefits
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News
Stevens considers 'freeing up' funds for 'service change'
Simon Stevens has indicated part of NHS funding could be designated to be spent on investment to ‘kick start service change’