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HSJ LocalUPDATED: Community hospitals review underway as CCG forecasts £11m deficit
STRUCTURE: Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group is undertaking a review into the future of its four community hospitals.
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HSJ PartnersConsider the needs of carers when commissioning end of life services
Coordinated care is cost effective
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HSJ LocalCCG to consider future for GP ‘acute visits’ scheme
PERFORMANCE: Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group is examining the future of a scheme which allows patients with acute problems to be visited during daytime by a nurse within two hours of a call to a GP surgery.
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HSJ LocalBristol Community Health appoints non-exec director
WORKFORCE: Bristol Community Health has appointed Julie Dovey as a non-executive director.
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HSJ LocalNew FT to 'push forward' with new models of care
STRUCTURE:The leader of a provider recently granted foundation trust status has said that the organisation has been presented with an ‘exciting’ opportunity to push forward with new models of care outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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HSJ LocalCCG set to evaluate 999 pilot scheme
COMMERCIAL: Kingston Clinical Commissioning Group is analysing the findings of a pilot scheme which involved the London Ambulance Service treating some patients in their own homes instead of taking them to hospital.
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HSJ LocalCCG contracts new team to boost mental health of young adults
COMMERCE: A disused post office will be the base for a new contracted multidisciplinary team as part of Camden Clinical Commissioning Group’s strategy to improve the mental health and wellbeing of 16-24 year olds.
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HSJ LocalTrust oversees 2,850 new family nurse roles in a year
WORKFORCE: The number of family nurse positions in the English NHS has increased by 2,850 over the last year, the trust managing the scheme has said.
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HSJ LocalCCG invites bids for £100m ‘health campus’ provider
COMMERCIAL: Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group has invited organisations to bid to provide major services at a proposed health and wellbeing campus to serve Shepton Mallet and surrounding villages.
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HSJ LocalLocal care networks model favoured by CCG
STRUCTURE: Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group is one of six CCGs in south east London pursuing joint plans for a ‘whole system model’ of healthcare implemented by ‘local care networks’ in each borough.
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CommentStevens must honour his Change Day pledge for people with learning disabilities
Stevens must make good on his learning disabilities promise
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HSJ LocalNorthern Devon Healthcare makes new board appointments
WORKFORCE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust has announced the appointment of Robert Down as a non-executive director
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HSJ LocalSolent to sue Hampshire council over tender award
COMMERCIAL: Solent Trust is set to sue Hampshire County Council after the local authority awarded a £41.3m contract for adult substance misuse services to another provider, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ KnowledgeReach out to GPs and social care to create provider led solutions
Making the move to capitated outcomes based commissioning
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NewsTrusts told to halve the number of ‘green to go’ patients
A number of trusts were told to reduce the number of medically fit patients who were delayed in being discharged from hospital by 50 per cent in a month, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTwo more trusts reach foundation status
STRUCTURE: Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust and Kent Community Health Trust have been granted foundation trust status by Monitor.
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HSJ LocalNEW Devon accused of conflict of interest in £100m contract award
COMMERCIAL: A community services provider has accused the country’s largest clinical commissioning group of a conflict of interest in its decision to award a £100m contract without a tender.
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NewsUpdated: £6bn Manchester devolution deal is signed
NHS and local government leaders have this morning announced plans to join up health and social care budgets for Manchester worth £6bn, but insisted the deal is not a ‘town hall takeover’ of health services.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief asks staff to trust internal whistleblowing procedures
WORKFORCE: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust is urging staff to use internal whistleblowing systems for their complaints after the Care Quality Commission conducted an unannounced inspection based on anonymous ‘concerns’.