All Community services articles – Page 8
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NewsIT ‘crash’ hits 1,000s of GP practices
An IT system used by thousands of general practices has suffered major technical problems today, with GPs struggling to access patient records and give prescriptions.
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NewsMore hospital beds ‘squeezing out rehab and keeping people out of work’
Extra beds squeezed into hospitals as part of winter planning are crowding out space for rehab, pushing up length of stay and knock-on costs, and increasing the chance of readmission, NHS leaders have been warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The forbidden provisions
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentNHSE’s decision to delay pioneering health centres is short-sighted
The national program for redesigning primary care estates in six locations in England has been halted, throwing plans into doubt and potentially delaying improved outcomes for localities, writes Dr Eleanor Roy
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HSJ Local‘Hyperlocal’ approach unblocked recruitment, says trust
A community trust has reported unprecedented success filling stubborn vacancies by investing in ‘hyperlocal’ recruitment, which involves posting flyers through doors rather than posting adverts online.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: An ICS in meltdown
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by primary and community care correspondent Dave West.
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NewsChild health checks failed to recover after covid, figures show
Inadequate health visiting provision has led to gaps in care for children and heaped pressure on acute services, senior clinicians have told HSJ.
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NewsFears for vulnerable patients as NHSE changes covid treatment rules
Some of the most vulnerable patients could risk missing out on covid treatment because new rules will place the onus on them to access antiviral medication themselves instead of the NHS contacting them directly, senior figures have warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ‘Gently persuading’ 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 primary and community care correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsUrgent community services must become ‘business as usual’, says NHS England
Urgent community response services are growing across England – despite significant variation in referrals – but must be maintained all year rather than acting as ‘just a short-term fix for winter’, NHS England’s community director has said.
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CommentShadow boards can help address the challenge of leadership diversity
Elliot Howard-Jones, shares his views about why a Shadow Board was created, bringing together staff from a range of different ethnic backgrounds
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NewsChildren getting ‘conveyor belt’ care due to waiting list pressure
The pressure to tackle long waiting lists in children’s community services is impacting care quality, clinical leaders have warned.
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NewsStaff survey: the best and worst community, ambulance and specialist trusts
Which providers receive the highest recommendations from staff as a place to work? HSJ has analysed the full results of today’s 2022 NHS Staff Survey for community, ambulance and specialist NHS providers.
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CommentHow ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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CommentThe changing roles of NHS trust chairs
Donna Hall gives a glimpse into the lives of the leaders of trusts and elaborates the complexity of working in partnership with social care, housing, the community and voluntary sector, and other local providers
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NewsNine groups charged with ‘acceleration’ of provider collaboratives by NHSE
NHS England has chosen nine provider collaboratives to take the lead in ‘accelerating’ the development of the approach across the service.
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News‘NHS factors’ lead to more than a third of delayed discharges
More than a third of delayed discharges for long-stay patients are being caused by factors generally associated with the NHS, according to new data obtained by HSJ.
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NewsTrust leaders ‘welcome rigour’ of A&E target, says new NHSE director
Trust leaders have said they will welcome the ‘rigour’ of ‘a lot more focus’ on the four-hour A&E target nationally, alongside other indicators, NHS England’s new emergency care director told HSJ.
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NewsTrust appoints influential policy figure as chair
A large mental health and community trust has appointed one of the left’s most well known policy thinkers as its new chair.
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News‘Landmark’ integrated trust faces axe
Health leaders in the Midlands are considering winding down or merging an NHS trust that was supposed to hold a ‘landmark’ integrated care contract worth £360m, according to trust papers.