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NewsCouncil chiefs urge cross-party care consensus
Local authority efforts to reform health and social care has been put at risk by the pace of government cuts, council chiefs have warned.
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NewsHunt: GPs must improve elderly care
Jeremy Hunt has called on GPs to “rediscover family doctoring”, and again said he wants to make changes to their contracts to encourage them to “take better care of older patients and ensure that fewer of them end up in hospital”.
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CommentPatient feedback is essential to the NHS's future
The friends and family test is helping to drive local improvements
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Blogs‘Look beyond the supermarket model for health services’
NHS commissioners should heed the experiences of other parts of the public sector to develop a health and social care model of commissioning
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HSJ LocalLisa Rodrigues announces retirement
Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust, has told HSJ she plans to retire next year.
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LeaderRapid resolution needed for service change impasse
Competition rules are not having the desired impact
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NewsGP budgets could be added to pooled integration funds
NHS England may contribute additional funding to bolster the £3.8bn integration transformation fund announced in the 2013 comprehensive spending review, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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NewsExclusive: Competition rules hold back quality, says Nicholson
NHS England’s chief executive has said the government may need to change the law because competition rules are standing in the way of improvements to NHS services.
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NewsGP commissioning not accountable, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said he opposes “GP control or domination of commissioning” because it is not “accountable” and compromises “the public interest”.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy 'cookie cutter' change programmes won't work
There is more to replicating success than ‘copy and paste’
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CommentIntegration is the name of the game, but what does it mean?
Unravelling the integration code
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HSJ KnowledgeThe role of CCGs following the Francis report
What CCGs should aim to do in light of the Mid Staffs inquiry
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NewsLeading CSUs recruit joint team
A group of leading commissioning support units are recruiting four new members of staff to drive and expand their programme of joint working, including one role which could be worth more than £100,000 a year.
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NewsMost popular quality premium targets revealed
Improving care for circulatory diseases and reducing emergency admissions are the targets most commonly chosen by clinical commissioning groups to be linked to their income, research has found.
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CommentDavid Colin-Thomé: CCGs must exert sovereignty and diplomacy
Dual approach is the best way to achieve their aims
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NewsAnalysis: Big gap between priorities of CCGs and 'rising star' wellbeing boards
HSJ analysis has revealed a gulf between the stated aims of clinical commissioning groups and council hosted health and wellbeing boards, with the two organisations sharing no priorities in two-fifths of CCG areas.
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CommentWhy independence for directors of public health is so important
The updated role is vital for patient safety