All Voluntary sector/third sector articles – Page 9
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HSJ LocalVolunteer support programme 'cut admissions by a third'
Emergency admissions reduced by around a third in a group of patients which was given volunteer support to combat dependency on health and care services, an evaluation has said.
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HSJ LocalProviders for £1.8bn elderly care contract named
FINANCE: Five providers have been selected to lead the delivery a £1.8bn, 10 year contract to improve older peoples’ care in Croydon.
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NewsMental health taskforce chair promises 'clear route map' for sector
A new national strategy for mental health will be ‘clear, tangible and costed’, according to the chair of NHS England’s taskforce for the sector.
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NewsExclusive: Treasury considering health, care and welfare budget link
The Treasury is undertaking a quick turnaround project in the run up to the general election examining the potential savings from bringing together spending on health, social care and some welfare payments.
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SupplementsSupplement: Everybody’s talking about integration but can the NHS deliver?
An overview of integrated care
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SupplementsIntegration supplement: How the third sector helps discharged patients
The important role of British Red Cross volunteers
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HSJ PartnersPartnering with the voluntary sector gives patients more choice
Its role in integration
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HSJ LocalInvestment firm funds first NHS social impact bond
FINANCE: An investment firm has put £1.65m into what it claims to be the first social impact bond in the health service.
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HSJ PartnersConsider the needs of carers when commissioning end of life services
Coordinated care is cost effective
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NewsHunt rejects call to extend barring checks on staff and volunteers
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has rejected a key recommendation from the investigation into lessons learnt from the historic abuse by Jimmy Savile at NHS hospitals.
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NewsSavile inquiry calls for change in law for screening staff
There is ‘very patchy’ management of volunteer schemes in trusts and the law should be changed so that all staff and volunteers in contact with patients should be given a barring list check, the authors of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s historic sexual abuse have said.
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NewsExclusive: Digital pioneer bids to integrate NHS patient records for free
One of the NHS technology community’s leading experts is building a new system to integrate the health service’s myriad patient record systems, and he plans to give it to the NHS for free.
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HSJ PartnersThree steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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NewsExclusive: Independent sector 'could provide 50 per cent of community services by 2020'
Independent sector providers could take a 50 per cent share of the market for NHS community services by the end of the decade, according to market analyst LaingBuisson.
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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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NewsGPs should urgently discuss new care models
GPs should begin talking about the new models of care in the NHS Five Year Forward View ‘very soon’, one of their leaders has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeEmbed person centred care into mainstream health services
How to put patients at the heart of care