All Community services articles – Page 16
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HSJ AwardsMobilising volunteers to tackle health inequalities
A joint project by Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and Staffordshire County Council, winner of the Health and Local Government Partnership category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, is running eight community libraries that serve deprived communities. Jennifer Trueland finds out more about their impact
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HSJ InteractiveWorking to achieve better management of patients with type 2 diabetes
A population health model for people with type 2 diabetes won Hampshire System Integrator the System Leadership Initiative of the Year category at the 2019 HSJ Awards. Jennifer Trueland explores the approach underpinning their success
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CommentThe political science of choices and consequences
Whether it is to develop an eventual exit strategy for lockdown or to prepare for handling acute care demands from a second wave of covid-19 infections, testing is essential, says Andy Cowper.
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NewsFears over vulnerable children after 50pc drop in referrals
Vulnerable children have become “invisible” amid the coronavirus pandemic, leading clinicians have warned, following a dramatic reduction in referrals to child sexual assault services.
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News‘Yet another failure’ on flagship programme for learning disabilities
New data has revealed “yet another failure” to adequately reduce the number of people with learning disabilities living in “modern day asylums”.
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NewsThree day window for expanded staff coronavirus tests
Coronavirus testing is to be rolled out to a wider group of NHS staff and their households, as long as the onset of covid-19 symptoms took place within the previous three days.
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Community nursing will 'blow’ as discharge threshold is reduced
Families, social care workers and volunteers may be forced to step in to help provide nursing care, as community nursing capacity threatens to “blow” due to coronavirus.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Schrodinger’s Virus
Andy Cowper on how real problems persist with the availability of PPE supply
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A virtual hospital model can help tackle the covid-19 pandemic
West Hertforshire Hospitals Trust has been running a fully integrated, virtual consultant delivered triaging service that can be a vital part of the armoury against covid-19, say Rama Vancheeswaran, Matthew Knight, David Evans, Michael Van der Watt, Alex Newland Smith, Charlie Oliver, Philip Kelso, Chantoy Spencer and Andrew Barlow
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CommentWe need a Nightingale model for rehab after covid-19
A major new model of post-acute care is needed for the discharge and rehabilitation of patients following covid-19 infection, say Alice Murray, Clare Gerada, and Jackie Morris.
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CommentAmazed, guilty, excited, incompetent and frustrated — how NHS leaders feel amid the crisis
Niall Dickson discusses the various issues that are confronting NHS leaders during the coronavirus pandemic and testing their performance and levels of resilience
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HSJ AwardsCreating carers champions at board and grassroots level
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, winners of the System Led Support for Carers category at the 2019 HSJ Awards, spearheaded an initiative to identify and provide support to unpaid carers across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, reports Alison Moore
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Region sets out leaders and care model for Manchester ‘field hospital’
The executive team for Manchester’s new “field hospital” will be run by a community health chief with a significantly different clinical model to its London counterpart, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Retail logistics firm put in charge of crisis-hit PPE deliveries
The firm Clipper Logistics will manage a new supply channel to deliver personal protective equipment to NHS trusts and community healthcare partners, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingCoronavirus is a true test of integration
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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NewsTrusts told: Forget the rules, get people out of hospital
Health and care organisations have been ordered to take radical measures to speed up discharges and help free up 15,000 beds by the end of the month.
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NewsNHS told to ‘up its game’ in helping social care respond to crisis
Significant tensions are emerging between hospitals and care homes around patients who are ready to be discharged but have not been tested for coronavirus and also around personal protective equipment.
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NewsGP contract work slashed to focus on covid-19
NHS England has announced a raft of measures to cut back GP workload while maintaining funding streams to free up practice capacity “to prepare for and manage the covid-19 outbreak”.
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NewsGP pay for performance framework suspended
The quality outcomes framework incentive programme for GPs will be among requirements on GP practices that will be temporarily suspended as part of the NHS’ effort to remove “routine barriers” to the national covid-19 response.
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NewsNHS to free up 30,000 beds for coronavirus
The NHS is targeting freeing up 30,000 beds by postponing all non-urgent elective operations and discharging all inpatients who are “medically fit to leave”.