All Community services articles – Page 84
-
NewsBehan: all managers should spend time at CQC
New CQC chief speaks to HSJ, urging managers to have career stint at regulator, in his first interview since replacing Cynthia Bower
-
NewsEXCLUSIVE: Behan says CQC will 'comment on quality' as cuts bite
The Care Quality Commission will not be afraid to speak up if the continued financial squeeze impacts on patient care, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
-
NewsMPs: community hospitals are 'key to NHS'
Community hospitals should be valued by the NHS as a key part of the NHS, the government has been told.
-
NewsCQC could ditch annual inspections following U-turn
The Care Quality Commission could move away from regular inspections of all regulated organisations and back towards a more risk-based model, under plans being put out for consultation today.
-
HSJ Knowledge
The coming together of community
The movement of data is key to service improvements in the community
-
CommentFixing the broken system
Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered
-
CommentThe healthcare arms race
It is blinkered to assume the best innovations come from developed nations
-
NewsRevealed: extent of harm to patients under NHS care
More than 20 per cent of patients suffer avoidable harm during their care at some trusts, a national survey of frontline NHS services has revealed.
-
HSJ Local
New X-Ray machine for Isles of Scilly
STRUCTURE: Peninsula Community Health has installed a new x-ray machine at St Mary’s Hospital on the Isles of Scilly that means residents will no longer have to visit the mainland for an x-ray.
-
NewsNHS urged to think long-term to save
NHS organisations need to think more long term to innovate and release more savings, NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has said.
-
HSJ Local
Neglect contributed to death of patient at Somerset community hospital
PERFORMANCE: A patient who choked to death at a hospital run by Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust had been neglected by staff, a coroner has ruled.
-
HSJ Local
Liverpool Community Health misses diagnostics target by huge margin
PERFORMANCE: Nearly 18 per cent of patients awaiting diagnostic tests from Liverpool Community Health Trust in June had been on its waiting list for more than six weeks, against a national target that fewer than 1 per cent of patients should wait that long.
-
HSJ Local
New £33m community hospital gets go ahead
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has approved the full business case for a £33m community hospital rebuild.
-
HSJ KnowledgeHow to make it to merger
Trusts can boost their chances of success when merger proposals are considered
-
HSJ KnowledgeBring social care best to NHS
Health itself improves or declines at an individual level, so care must begin there
-
HSJ KnowledgeBright approach to fast care
Implementing new ambulatory emergency care tariffs demands a mindset shift
-
HSJ Local
Bidders shortlisted in competition for Central Surrey Health contract
COMMERCIAL: Just two bidders have been shortlisted in the competition to run the services currently provided by Central Surrey Health, the first social enterprise to come out of the NHS.
-
HSJ Local
Cumbria council launches £300,000 health and wellbeing fund
FINANCE: Cumbria county council has launched a £300,000 grant fund to support community health and wellbeing projects in Eden and Allerdale.
-
HSJ Local
Bradford District Care Trust begins IT integration
COMMERCIAL: Bradford District Care Trust has begun an integration of two clinical IT systems.
-
HSJ Local
Pennine Care nearly doubled in size through TCS
FINANCE: The foundation trust nearly doubled its turnover in 2011-12 through the Transforming Community Services programme of transferring commissioners’ provider arms, its annual report shows.