All Community services articles – Page 99
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy public and patient engagement must work in the new commissioning system
Patient involvement has always been integral to NHS services, so it is vital that commissioners now ensure local people respond to engagement opportunities, says David Stout.
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CommentSouth West community enterprises go operational in October
While many acute trusts in the South West were contending with an unseasonal heatwave that saw daytrippers flocking to the region’s beaches and emergency departments, the community sector was busy sizing up the raft of new social enterprises which became formally operational on 1 October.
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HSJ Local
Pressures lead to overspend on Milton Keynes prison health service
FINANCE: Pressures on health services at a prison in Milton Keynes are causing it to overspend, according to a board paper.
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NewsMental health patient recalls rise as community teams struggle
A dramatic rise in the number of people with serious mental illness being recalled to hospital has led to concern that community mental health teams are overstretched.
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HSJ KnowledgeWill Any Qualified Provider bring the private sector and the community together?
With the provision of some community based services being opened up to Any Qualified Provider, Beachcroft LLP partner Robert McGough examines five crucial questions for commissioners to consider.
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NewsAddiction help disadvantage for older people
GPs and other health professionals should undergo more training to help older people who are dependent on alcohol or drugs, experts have warned.
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HSJ Local
New Somerset social enterprise sets 'marker in the sand'
STRUCTURE: A social enterprise has expressed a formal interest in taking on primary care trust estate despite Department of Health rules banning non NHS organisations from taking on NHS assets.
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SupplementsHSJ special supplement: primary care
This week’s HSJ supplement takes a look at primary care, featuring articles on regulation, referral management, community services and sustainability.
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NewsHospitals failing elderly on care quality
A fifth of NHS hospitals are breaking the law on care of the elderly, according to a new report, with two trusts given prior warnings still leaving patients without intravenous fluids and one incontinent patient left unwashed despite asking for help.
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HSJ KnowledgeCan maternity care learn from how the retail sector operates?
Good managers will often look at other sectors to bring across good ideas and examples of good practice, but could maternity managers learn something from counterparts in the retail sector? Edwin van Teijlingen and Emma Pitchforth investigate.
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NewsNew Labour competition reforms did not increase health inequalities
The pro-competition NHS reforms introduced over the past decade of Labour governments did not affect deprived communities’ access to healthcare, a York University study has found.
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HSJ Local
Staff shortages force admissions halt at new CIC
WORKFORCE: Peninsula Community Health has suspended new admissions to one of its community hospitals due to staff shortages.
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HSJ Local
NHS Gloucestershire invests in telehealth
COMMERCIAL: NHS Gloucestershire has signed a £5m contract with Tunstall Healthcare for the provision of a telehealth service to 2,000 patients with long term conditions.
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HSJ Local
NHS Somerset delegates community and mental health commissioning
STRUCTURE: NHS Somerset has delegated responsibility for the commissioning of community and mental health services worth more than £128m to the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group.
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HSJ Local
QVH plans to shut unit next April
STRUCTURE: Queen Victoria Hospital FT plans to divest itself of a loss making inpatient community ward in April 2012-13.
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NewsTreatments for drug addiction fall
The number of patients needing treatment for hard drug addiction fell by almost 10,000 over the last two years, figures show.
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NewsLansley's 'shining example' forced to deny rationing claims
A social enterprise held up as a “shining example” by Andrew Lansley has been accused of “rationing” physiotherapy services through its use of the flagship any qualified provider policy.
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NewsCouncil chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
Council chief executives are understood to have staged a backlash over the Department of Health’s bid to get them to “sign off” local public-health spending figures.
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NewsCost of treating brain disorders doubles
Treating brain disorders such as depression and dementia in the UK is costing £116bn annually, a total which has risen more than 50 per cent in just six years.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe key factors behind a successful implementation of telehealth services
Telehealth can undoubtedly make a difference to the delivery of healthcare services, but only with a successful implementation, as Mark Ayton explains.