All Community services articles – Page 58
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Procurement
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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Value in Healthcare Awards: Workforce Efficiency
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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HSJ LocalCottage hospital beds in North Staffordshire could be cut
ACUTE CARE: A three month consultation has been launched into the future of community hospital beds in North Staffordshire after wards were closed in 2014 amid concerns over staffing levels.
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HSJ LocalSafety concerns over community trust’s urgent care service
PERFORMANCE: Inspectors have raised safety concerns over the quality of the urgent care service provided by Gloucestershire Care Services Trust.
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CommentEnd Game: Is old snake hips making a comeback?
Virgin CareJeremy Hunt’s lambada days are far from over
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HSJ LocalTrust-GP consortium wants to run Cornish community services
COMMERCIAL: A trio of providers has formally expressed interest in bidding to run community services across Cornwall once the incumbent provider pulls out next March, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMonitor: Out of hospital care ‘no panacea’ for demand pressure
Monitor has warned providers that schemes to move care out of hospital are not guaranteed to reduce costs or demand pressure.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegration: Happening quietly in a place near you
Local approach offers tangible benefits
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NewsExclusive: Hunt orders investigation of 'regulatory gap' baby death case
The health secretary has promised an independent investigation of the death of a baby whose ‘incredibly distressing’ case highlighted a regulatory ‘gap’ in the NHS’s ability to probe historic complaints.
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SupplementsSupplement: The voluntary sector provides winter pressure relief
Social support for patients
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: The right services at the right time
Data, workforce planning and the voluntary sector
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NewsUpdated: NHS agency controls unveiled, but price cap pushed back
Price caps on the hourly rate the NHS can pay agency nurses may not take effect until December, after regulators received more than 100 responses to a consultation on the controversial plans.
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HSJ LocalSomerset commissioners propose single health and social care budget
STRUCTURE: Commissioners across Bath and north east Somerset plan to create a pooled budget across health and social care as part of a review into community services in the region.
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CommentDon't judge vanguards on what they weren't designed to do
If the NHS does, vanguards will fail
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HSJ Local£100m Devon procurement did not break rules, Monitor confirms
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group did not break procurement regulations when it selected a preferred provider for a £100m community services contract without going to tender, Monitor has concluded.
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NewsThousands of mental health patients still detained in police cells
Almost 4,000 people detained under the Mental Health Act are still being forced to stay in police cells rather than a hospital, despite a 54 per cent fall over the last three years.
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NewsExclusive: CQC to review care for newborns following baby’s death
A national review of the quality of care for seriously ill children is being launched by the Care Quality Commission following the death of a baby more than a decade ago.
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HSJ LocalNew GP federation and trusts in collaboration talks
STRUCTURE: A new GP federation covering North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent is in talks with local health bodies to examine proposals for more integrated working.