All Community services articles – Page 83
-
CommentCommunity care should be the NHS's first option
Community FTs are crucial to the mandate’s aspirations
-
NewsMPs call for urgent 'overhaul' of CQC governance
The chair of the health select committee has described it as “extraordinary” the Care Quality Commission is still not clear about its core purpose, five years after it was set up.
-
NewsProviders to roll out integrated care across Kent
Integrated health and social care teams are expected to in place across Kent by April, as part of an ambitious county-wide plan to better coordinate services for patients with long-term conditions.
-
HSJ LocalAnalysed: the integration of health and social care in Kent
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the Kent and Medway health economy, which is in the process of integrating its community health and social care services.
-
HSJ Local
Laming Inquiry advisor awarded MBE
WORKFORCE: Dr Nellie Adjaye, a Kent Community Health NHS Trust consultant paediatrician, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list.
-
HSJ Local
New chief exec for Sussex Community Trust
WORKFORCE: Paula Head has been appointed as the new chief executive of Sussex Community NHS Trust.
-
HSJ Local
Bristol Community Health wins out-of-area contract
COMMERCIAL: Bristol Community Health has won a contract to provide continuing healthcare and funded nurses in South Gloucestershire.
-
NewsCCGs must lead service change, says Confed chair
The new chair of the NHS Confederation has said the future of clinical commissioning groups depends on whether they can succeed in pushing through service change.
-
HSJ KnowledgeBest of 2012: mental health
This round-up of best practice articles looks at mental health
-
Blogs
Nursing, society and older people
The argument about whether nursing should be a degree-based profession is merely a displacement activity. The real issue is about the link between nurse training and how society wants its older citizens to be cared for.
-
HSJ KnowledgeCommunity care is a means to a better end
Community services can improve the quality of end of life care
-
HSJ KnowledgeSouth Staffordshire’s approach to surge planning
Working collaboratively to address winter pressures
-
BlogsThe drama of being a whistleblower
The potentially traumatic experience of being a public sector whistleblower, plus the dangers of NHS hospitals being “all most full”
-
SupplementsTake the tablets − an HSJ supplement on innovation through technology
Cutting edge technology can have huge benefits for the NHS and patients. HSJ’s innovation supplement examines how using new technology could save the service £3bn, and how new systems are improving end of life care
-
SupplementsWe have the technology − an HSJ supplement on telehealth
A common theme at the HSJ/Nursing Times Telehealth 2012 conference last month was that technology is changing the face of healthcare delivery. Our supplement looks at how patients and providers are using telecare to manage long-term conditions, the use of telehealth to treat prisoners and the most innovative new applications
-
HSJ Local
Integration plans for Kent community services
STRUCTURE: Kent Community Health Trust and Kent County Council have unveiled proposals to integrate health and social care services.
-
CommentLabour's vision of 21st century care
Liz Kendall outlines the approach Labour would take to NHS reform
-
HSJ Local
Northern Devon cottage hospital upgrade reaches final stage
STRUCTURE: Plans for a £1.3m upgrade of a community hospital run by Northern Devon Healthcare Trust have been unveiled.
-
HSJ Local
New smoking cessation service for West Sussex
STRUCTURE: NHS West Sussex has announced that a new stop smoking drop-in session is launching at Southwick Community Centre on a Thursday from 4-6.30pm.
-
HSJ Local
Serco plans to cut 137 community posts in Suffolk
WORKFORCE: Private healthcare firm Serco has announced proposals to cut 137 jobs at Suffolk Community Healthcare a month after taking over its management.