All Social care articles – Page 50
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CommentRemoving the NHS ringfence: the next stage for healthcare rationing
Providers under scrutiny
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HSJ KnowledgeResidential care means more than a chair to sit in
Consider occupation when commissioning for quality of life in homes
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NewsA&E patients 'will wait longer'
Patients should expect ‘inevitable’ greater waits in accident and emergency departments, two health charities have warned.
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CommentNeil Churchill: What I learnt from my day with carers
I saw what’s working and where we need to change
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Comment
Transform district nursing to stop it facing extinction
The RCN says we might see its demise within 10 years
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Blogs
Copying failure and hoping it works
Governments have a history of imposing what hasn’t quiet worked in one area of the public sector on to another
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NewsPut GP services alongside every emergency department, advise doctors
New guidelines from a host of medical Royal Colleges call for all emergency departments to have co-located out of hours GP services, to help prevent rising demand from overwhelming the urgent care system.
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CommentBetter care fund doesn't match Sheffield's ambition
Why we want a joint health and care budget
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CommentInteraction is required to make integration a reality
It needs co-operation between HWB members
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CommentIntegration Summit: Are you the glue that binds joint working or the treacle that gets in the way?
There are clear obstacles to joint working
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CommentIntegration Summit: Closed doors and outward attitudes tell a story
Hear from the facilitator
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CommentHow to look after older people in an ideal world
An alternative care pathway could have very different outcomes
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CommentIntegration Summit: Accountability must start with genuine co-production
Commissioners need to build trust among their partners
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SupplementsHard to reach groups: Making a call on the mobile
A mobile van with groundbreaking technology and X-ray diagnosis is reaching the fringes of society
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CommentLocal providers can step up to trump national players
We can offer more attractive solutions
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HSJ KnowledgeJapan's integrated total care vision for an ageing population
A strategy to help people stay in the community
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NewsMonitor: 'No evidence' of poorer quality of care in small hospitals
Small hospitals should continue to play an “important role” in the NHS, Monitor has indicated after a new study found “no evidence” of poorer quality clinical performance when compared with larger providers.
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NewsPolitical consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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NewsHunt moves to shield hospitals from integration fund failure
Jeremy Hunt warned that there must be a ‘proper risk sharing profile’ in all better care fund plans to protect hospital finances
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NewsDelayed discharges cost NHS £526m, warns Age UK
A charity for older people has warned of a “marked rise” in the length of time elderly people are held up in hospital while they wait for social care.