All Commissioning articles – Page 6
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NewsHalf of ICSs have no ‘partnership’ chair or ‘place’ leads
Less than a month before integrated care systems take over from clinical commissioning groups, half have not selected a chair of their partnership board, and more than half have yet to appoint the executive leaders of their constituent ‘places’, HSJ research has found.
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CommentCovid brought community pharmacists in from the cold, let's build on that
Reena Barai highlights how the integration of primary care networks and local pharmacies have led to inclusive healthcare at the local level
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NewsNHSE extends Capita primary care contract for £94m
NHS England has extended Capita’s primary care support services contract for three more years for £94m.
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CommentA nationally-endorsed vision that defines integrated primary care services
In view of Dr Claire Fuller’s recently published stocktake on how primary care can work with ICSs, Toby Lewis reflects on the challenges and solutions to implement its recommendations
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Exclusive: Trusts and systems to be given £1.5bn to cover inflation costs
Local NHS organisations will be given an extra £1.5bn in 2022-23 to help cope with inflation and other cost pressures – and have been told to make extra savings to bring their budgets into balance, HSJ has discovered.
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News‘One last chance to get it right’ for ‘inadequate’ trust, says chair
The chair of what may be England’s most challenged trust has rejected suggestions that it needs a ‘wholesale reorganisation’ but said it is on its ‘last chance to get it right’.
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HSJ PartnersWe cannot meet the mental health needs of cancer patients without breaking down silos
This article was authored by All.Can UK, a multi-stakeholder initiative involving patient groups and industry experts, and has been fully funded by the All.Can UK funding partners: Bristol Myers Squibb (primary sponsor) and MSD (supporting sponsor). Together, the All.Can UK membership defined the focus of the article. Bristol Myers Squibb ...
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CommentMaking virtue part of everyone’s job
A new unit will professionalise virtue-signalling and oversee a national humility strategy, reports Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalCouncils always ‘leader of place’, says top health system
A prominent integrated care board has set out various options for how to structure its local leadership teams – but stressed councils will be the leaders of ‘place’.
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CommentIs the CQC giving the NHS an easy ride?
The purpose of Care Quality Commission ratings has been a hotly contested question since the creation of the four category classifications in the last decade. With only a single trust rated inadequate, despite pandemic pressures, is the regulator now letting the service off the hook?
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NewsNHSE must allow councillors to sit on integrated care boards, says government
The government has said NHS England must change draft guidance to allow councillors to be members of NHS integrated care boards, but it remains unclear if they will be permitted to chair the new organisations.
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NewsICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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CommentCare of those with personality disorders has been privatised
A new report on out of area placements for people with a personality disorder diagnosis reveals worrying findings, writes Keir Harding
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NewsFinal ICS confirms chief executive
All 42 integrated care systems have now named their chief executive designate — or declared that they have failed to appoint.
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CommentJulian Patterson: Longstay's dramatic return
Independent consultant to lead far-reaching leadership and IT review
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NewsICS go-live date could be delayed by six months, leak reveals
The transfer from clinical commissioning groups to integrated care systems may be delayed by up to six months, according to NHS England scenario planning seen by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingICSs could be forced to pool their budgets with councils
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: social care reform proves challenging
The NHS proposals of the Scottish government has angered GPs and left managing bodies of community healthcare services grumbling, writes Henry Anderson
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CommentPritchard: honesty and ambition will mark my tenure as CEO
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard on the ‘honesty and ambition’ she hopes will define her tenure, and why she is concerned about how stretched services are even before winter begins.
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NewsICSs ‘may cease to exist’ after setting up strong provider groups
Integrated care systems may develop strong provider groups and afterwards choose for their role become ‘tiny’ or ‘cease to exist’, it has been suggested.