All Community services articles – Page 78
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HSJ Local
Mobile blood teams under threat in West Sussex
STRUCTURE: Plans to axe two mobile blood collection units in West Sussex have been criticised by unions.
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NewsDH plans property company merger
The Department of Health’s two property companies are beginning a programme of joint working and are set to merge in two years’ time, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe effect of age on hospice care
How will the ageing population affect palliative care?
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HSJ Local
Sussex Community Trust in new home palliative care partnership
STRUCTURE: Sussex Community NHS Trust’s palliative care team has joined with the Martlets Hospice@Home team to deliver a new specialist support and advice service.
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HSJ Local
New community hospital for Dover gets planning permission
STRUCTURE: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust says a new community hospital is due to be completed in the Dover area by Christmas 2014.
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HSJ KnowledgeBank on the internet to save the NHS
How the health service can extract more from its existing resources
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HSJ Local
Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust appoints new medical director
WORKFORCE: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust has appointed a new associate medical director.
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HSJ Local
New service encourages more homebirths in Sussex
STRUCTURE: A new 24-hour community midwives service dedicated to home births has been introduced by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
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HSJ PartnersUsing Strata technology to improve referrals in Rotherham
Addressing problems in the referral pathway
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NewsMental health trusts look to diversify
Almost two thirds of NHS in-house mental health providers now also provide non-mental health services, a survey shared with HSJ reveals.
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HSJ KnowledgeDelivering health services fit for the 21st century
Coordinating and integrating care on the ground
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SupplementsWhy we are still dying at hospital, not home: the case studies
How partnership working is helping patients to die at home
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SupplementsThe care homes with the full care spectrum
Commissioners are looking at placing frail patients in care homes - with a full care package
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SupplementsWhy the 3 Rs can cut admissions: the case studies
Innovative ways to prevent health problems include using technology to reach out to isolated elderly people
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CommentDelivering a new NHS strategy means busting some myths
We need to have radical service change
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News'Close hospitals' to save the NHS, say managers, doctors and patients
The NHS faces financial ruin and is no longer sustainable in its current form, a collective of leading medical, leadership and patient organisations has warned.
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HSJ Local
‘Mini’ community hospital opened in Kent acute trust
STRUCTURE: A community ward is being run inside Maidstone Hospital to help older people recover faster, as part of an initiative involving Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust.
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SupplementsWhy caring is desperate for records sharing: the case studies
How TPP’s SystmOne has allowed a foundation trust and a hospice easy access to all areas of the patient journey
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HSJ KnowledgeA strategy for maximising hospital capacity
Using home care services to reduce emergency admissions