All Community services articles – Page 120
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NewsPCTs will be able to 'park' provider arms
Primary care trusts will be allowed to “park” their provider arms with other NHS organisations in order to meet the deadlines for transforming community services, under the revised operating framework.
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Comment
Why the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health
It may seem crazy talk, but the NHS should devote 5 per cent of its budget to public health. We can’t afford not to, says John Middleton
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NewsFlood hit Cumbrian town seeks new community hospital
NHS Cumbria has submitted a planning application for a community hospital in Cockermouth.
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NewsSW Essex community services to integrate with FT
The provider arm of NHS South West Essex is to be vertically integrated with North East London Foundation Trust, under the transforming community services programme.
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NewsCounty wide leadership role for Essex chief exec
NHS South West Essex chief executive Pam Court is to lead a county wide programme of service transformation, including preparing for GP commissioning and reducing management costs.
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CommentPredictions on the new government's next moves
The future of the largest departmental budget and the second biggest area of government spending after welfare initially boiled down to just 30 words in the government’s initial coalition agreement.
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NewsNHS Hull completes move to social enterprise
NHS Hull has become the first primary care trust to complete the transfer of its provider arm into a stand alone social enterprise.
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NewsLansley: readmissions move is to drive integration
Penalising trusts for readmissions will push the integration of acute and community care, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeResidential care commissioning leaves room for improvement
Despite their complex needs it has been revealed that many care home residents lack access to specialist services, reports Stuart Shepherd
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NewsASBO issued to patient who faked illness
A homeless man with over 70 aliases, who became an expert at faking illness so he could gain overnight admittance to hospitals, was issued with a three year criminal ASBO.
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HSJ KnowledgeCapturing the costs of community services
Evidence is essential to designing community services that truly transform care delivery rather than simply shift vulnerable budgets, warns Noel Plumridge
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NewsSuicide details hard for mental health commissioners to obtain
Mental health commissioners are struggling to extract data on suicide prevalence from coroners, HSJ has been told.
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CommentNeil Churchill: NHS savings on long term conditions
Encouraging patients to be more self sufficient could go quite a way towards realising the required savings of £2.7bn a year by 2014 from the NHS’s long term conditions budget
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NewsLansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration
The new health secretary has said the NHS might face greater efficiency savings than the 3 per cent planned for and that GPs would have a say on hospital reconfiguration.
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NewsNew government must give rapid clarity on community service plans
Primary care trusts’ plans for their provider services could end up back on the drawing board if the new government fails to act decisively to keep it on track.
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CommentMark Goldman on NHS trust takeovers
Good Hope Hospital’s deeply ingrained culture left it stuck in a rut. What lessons are there for future NHS takeovers?
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how green are your care pathways?
The way forward in carbon reduction is through creative commissioning for pathways of care. In the final part in our series on sustainability, Jennifer Taylor looks at how the new approach is gaining momentum
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NewsNHS procurement probe was halted by last minute DH phone call
An eleventh hour phone call from the Department of Health stopped the cooperation and competition panel’s investigations into a primary care trust’s procurement arrangements.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS sustainability: moving care into the community
More care in community settings is a must for a sustainable NHS as well as a healthier environment, says Jennifer Taylor
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NewsPCT faces protest over historic building sell-off
A London primary care trust is facing criticism from the chair of a neighbouring acute trust over plans to sell off a pre-war health centre.