Community services – Page 83
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NewsAvoidable harm in NHS drops for six months
There have been six months of continuous reductions in the proportion of patients avoidably harmed under NHS care, latest data shows.
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HSJ Local
Virgin community services begin in Sussex
COMMERCIAL: A new community musculoskeletal service has been launched across Hastings and Rother following a tender exercise won by Virgin Care.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire community services to stay in the NHS
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust whose plans to transfer community services to a social enterprise were halted by a legal challenge has decided to keep the services within the NHS.
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HSJ KnowledgeThey are the champions: volunteers in the community
A look at the role of community health champions
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Living rooms turning into virtual wards to cut admissions
STRUCTURE: Living rooms in Surrey are becoming hospital wards in a scheme that aims to cut admissions.
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NHS Gloucestershire prepares for decision on community services
STRUCTURE: Staff and residents in Gloucestershire have overwhelmingly given their support to the creation of a new NHS trust for the county’s community services.
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NewsOutsourcer enters healthcare market
Outsourcer MITIE Group has entered the healthcare market by acquiring home care services provider Enara Group for £110.8m, the company has announced.
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Cornwall redesigns services for isolated communities
The NHS in Cornwall has a small population spread over a large area, so is piloting new ways of delivering care outside of hospital
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: a new model of hospital care in Cornwall
A pilot urgent care model for Cornwall has fired the enthusiasm of providers while raising questions including start-up funding
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Northern Devon puts back FT application a second time
STRUCTURE: Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is seeking a revised submission date for its foundation trust application, strategic health authority board papers reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeBrought in from the cold
Homeless adults have helped to redesign services to better meet their needs
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CommentThe many shades of grey
Health evidence is often unclear, so decisions have to be made with a large degree of uncertainty
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NewsNHS to double private patients - Burnham
Some NHS hospitals are planning to use new freedoms granted them by the coalition government to double the number of patients they treat privately this year, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has warned.
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NewsSerco questions 'bullish' forecasts for community services growth
The managing director of outsourcing giant Serco’s health business has cast doubt on “bullish” forecasts of a rapid expansion of private sector provision of NHS community services.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Community Trust records no mixed sex breaches
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community NHS Trust recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation during August, according to latest data.
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Virgin Care wins medical centre contract
COMMERCIAL: NHS Dorset has named Virgin Care as preferred provider of medical and community services at Lyme Regis medical centre in a contract worth up to £8.5m over five years.
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Liverpool Community Health research published on exercise programme to reduce falls
RESEARCH: Liverpool Community Health Trust has published findings from its new research into the effectiveness of low-cost, community-based exercise programmes to help reduce the likelihood of falls in people aged over 65.
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Chinese ‘mandarins’ visit Central Surrey Health
STRUCTURE: A top Beijing official and 12 regional Chinese government directors visited Leatherhead Hospital at the end of August in order to learn about social enterprise schemes.
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No mixed sex breaches for Kent Community Health
PERFORMANCE: Kent Community Health NHS Trust recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s rules on mixed sex accommodation during August, according to latest data.