Community services – Page 73
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NewsHunt to launch patient safety 'movement' to halve harm
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to use a major speech in the US today to launch a “patient safety movement” aimed at halving rates of avoidable harm in the NHS over the next three years.
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SupplementsRoundtable: A new vision for cataract surgery
HSJ hears the views of experts on the dilemmas surrounding access to treatment
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HSJ Local
Cornwall integration pioneer planning county-wide rollout
A partnership between the NHS and voluntary sector which is credited with reducing emergency admissions by nearly a third is set to be rolled out across Cornwall over the next 18 months.
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CommentOldham is a holistic man with a holistic remedy for whole person care
The obvious choice for Andy Burnham’s report
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NewsJunior doctors 'will be forced to train in community'
All junior doctors in England will be forced to undertake at least four months’ community placement during their first two years in the NHS, to better prepare them for the future of service delivery, it has been announced.
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NewsNicholson: CCGs 'encouraged' to protect mental health parity
Clinical commissioning groups have received guidance to “encourage and support” them to deliver parity of esteem for mental health services, Sir David Nicholson has said.
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NewsDuty of candour set to be extended to 100,000 incidents
NHS providers will be required to tell patients about all but the very least serious patient safety incidents under the new statutory duty of candour, if the recommendations of a government commissioned review are adopted into law.
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NewsKing's Fund calls for 'urgent shift' in elderly care
Budget-squeezed health and care provision for a rapidly ageing population needs to change urgently, a leading health charity has warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeA closer look at mental health's transformation
What acute care can learn about change from the sector
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HSJ KnowledgeTrusts can integrate pharmacy into community care
Involve pharmacists in care pathways
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LeaderWho will take the opportunity to reshape primary care?
Care in the community needs GPs’ influence
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NewsGPs should control community services, report says
GPs should take responsibility for out of hospital community services for patients under their registered lists, according to a report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.
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HSJ Local
CCG terminates community services contract with York
STRUCTURE: York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to terminate its contract to run community services in Whitby after agreeing that its current offer could be improved.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy coordinated care is key for rare disease patients
Emergency admissions can be avoided
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NewsExclusive: Adebowale says differential tariff deflator policy is 'laughable'
NHS England board member Lord Adebowale has described the policy of imposing cuts to mental health and community trusts, which are a fifth higher than those for other sectors, as “bordering on laughable”.
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NewsExclusive: National bodies back community services plans
Efforts to develop quality indicators and a tariff payment system for community services providers have taken a leap forward after winning the support of the main national health leadership organisations, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentCommissioners are the bridge builders for integrated care
CCGs are essential to integration working