All Community services articles – Page 71
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NewsNicholson: CCGs 'encouraged' to protect mental health parity
Clinical commissioning groups have received guidance to “encourage and support” them to deliver parity of esteem for mental health services, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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NewsDuty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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NewsKing's Fund calls for 'urgent shift' in elderly care
Budget-squeezed health and care provision for a rapidly ageing population needs to change urgently, a leading health charity has warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeA closer look at mental health's transformation
What acute care can learn about change from the sector
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HSJ KnowledgeTrusts can integrate pharmacy into community care
Involve pharmacists in care pathways
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LeaderWho will take the opportunity to reshape primary care?
Care in the community needs GPs’ influence
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NewsGPs should control community services, report says
GPs should take responsibility for out of hospital community services for patients under their registered lists, according to a report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.
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HSJ Local
CCG terminates community services contract with York
STRUCTURE: York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to terminate its contract to run community services in Whitby after agreeing that its current offer could be improved.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy coordinated care is key for rare disease patients
Emergency admissions can be avoided
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NewsExclusive: Adebowale says differential tariff deflator policy is 'laughable'
NHS England board member Lord Adebowale has described the policy of imposing cuts to mental health and community trusts, which are a fifth higher than those for other sectors, as “bordering on laughable”.
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NewsExclusive: National bodies back community services plans
Efforts to develop quality indicators and a tariff payment system for community services providers have taken a leap forward after winning the support of the main national health leadership organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working
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HSJ KnowledgeA multitalented approach to delivering community care
All staff can become holistic practitioners
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NewsCCGs urged to use freedoms to set prices following tariff row
NHS England and Monitor have said clinical commissioning groups can set their own prices for mental health and community services following claims that there is an institutional bias against the sector.
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NewsAlert system will name and shame unsafe providers
The names of organisations that fail to comply with patient safety alerts are to be published online each month as part of a revamped warning system being introduced by NHS England.
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HSJ KnowledgeAchieve the gold standard in end of life care
Avoid unnecessary hospital admissions for older people
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HSJ LocalCCGs tell Serco to improve service
PERFORMANCE: Commissioners have insisted community services in Suffolk run by Serco are “safe”, a week after a council said they could be deteriorating.