All Social care articles – Page 46
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NewsCCGs must set targets for reducing health inequalities
Clinical commissioning groups will have to set targets for reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for health and wellbeing, under the 2015-16 planning guidance.
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NewsEmergency care demand for older people predicted to rise
Emergency admissions among older people are likely to keep rising during the next five years, a Department of Health funded study has found. This is despite ministers’ claims that the better care fund will lead to a reduction in non-elective activity.
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NewsExclusive: Better care fund investment returns 'wildly unrealistic', analysis finds
One in 10 better care fund plans are predicting a first year return on investment of more than 20 per cent, HSJ analysis has revealed, prompting new suggestions that the financial planning of the fund is ‘wildly unrealistic’.
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HSJ KnowledgeNetworking gives a lifeline to better patient care
How a CCG deployed ‘eco leadership’
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CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
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HSJ KnowledgeUsing the building blocks of joined up care
Projects across the country delivering integrated care
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HSJ KnowledgeSegment the population to enable better integrated care
Revealing patient needs holistically
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CommentTragic tale of 'Baby P' shows we shouldn't play the blame game
Distinguish accountability from blame
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HSJ PartnersHow providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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NewsPatient 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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NewsExclusive: 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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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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HSJ KnowledgePrevention is a better investment than cure
Preventing illness is a wiser use of money for CCGs
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NewsBetter 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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CommentIs your board ready for a more open and transparent NHS?
Take account of a range of law changes affecting organisations
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NewsExclusive: 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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CommentHow 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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NewsHunt: NHS has 'responsibility' to help councils
Health service must help with local government’s ‘tough financial settlement’, the health secretary has said