All Community services articles – Page 78
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HSJ Local
Kent provider launches nurse recruitment drive
WORKFORCE: Kent Community Health NHS Trust is seeking to recruit “innovative” nurses to join its district and community nursing teams.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: mental health providers for the South East Coast
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing investigates the changing picture of mental health services across the South East Coast region
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HSJ Local
Fall in longer waits for Norfolk orthopaedic service
PERFORMANCE: Thirty five patients had to wait longer than two weeks for Norfolk’s orthopaedic clinical assessment and treat service in February – compared with 229 in January.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe benefits of working with the voluntary sector
How the voluntary sector can aid NHS providers
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News
Regulator should 'make allowances' for aspirant community FTs, says DH review author
Foundation trust regulator Monitor should “make allowances” for aspirant community foundation trusts and consider adjusting its assessment framework accordingly, according to the author of a confidential review the sector’s future commissioned by the Department of Health.
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News
Flory: Francis has moved an all-FT NHS back two years
The consequences of the Francis inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire care scandal have pushed back the process of getting all NHS providers to foundation trust status by two years, David Flory has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
New nursing professor in Hertfordshire
RESEARCH: A new professorship in community children’s nursing has been created to support research into the experiences of young people with long-term conditions and disabilities.
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Comment
Readers' Letters − 5 April 2013
One reader says research shows making the right changes to people’s homes will reduce the burden on hospitals, plus futher concern about the NHS 111 rollout
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HSJ Local
FT pipeline progress for Sussex Community Trust
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community Trust has been given the green light to move forward to the next stage of its preparations to achieve foundation status in 2014.
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HSJ KnowledgeOlder people’s experiences of care at home
Practical steps to improve domiciliary care
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HSJ KnowledgeBetter collaboration for better healthcare
We must aim to provide better value public services
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HSJ KnowledgeTaking a new approach to alcohol treatment
Rethinking funding and care pathways for specialist treatment
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HSJ Local
Community mental health move in Kent
STRUCTURE: Kent and Medway Partnership NHS and Social Care Foundation Trust has relocated a raft of community services in Dartford.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow an earthquake sped up care reform
The 2011 disaster forced New Zealand into action
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical commissioners can help shape primary care
CCGs can enhance general practice’s future if it lets them
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Blogs
Patients vs the business case
The NHS is not subject to local democratic accountability. If you want to have more say in what happens to your local hospital maybe you should advocate a transfer to local government
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NewsSave hospitals 'for seriously ill'
Caring for patients in the community and their own homes and saving hospitals for the seriously ill and those needing complicated operations could be the way forward for the NHS, a report has claimed.
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HSJ Local
Sussex health visitor receives QNI grant for local project
FINANCE: A health visitor from Lewes has been awarded a £5,000 grant by the Queen’s Nursing Institute to improve access to healthcare for the Gypsy and Traveller community locally.
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Comment
NHS productivity: more of the same or more for less?
More thought and action is required to improve
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HSJ Local
Surrey and Borders expands community eating disorder team
WORKFORCE: Three new nurses are to join Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust’s eating disorder services this month as part of efforts to keep younger patients out of hospital and in the “family environment”.