Community services – Page 87
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Councils using social care cash to plug funding gaps
A new report claims that almost half of councils are plugging gaps in access to existing social care services by using additional social care funding from the NHS, rather than spending it on providing additional services or improving quality.
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HSJ Local
Suffolk health centre closure brought forward
STRUCTURE: A health centre in Haverhill is to close in July - earlier than expected.
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HSJ Local
Suffolk services set to transfer to Serco in Oct
COMMERCIAL: Community services in Suffolk will transfer to Serco in October, with a contract likely to be signed in the next month and a three month mobilisation period.
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CommentThe age of information awaits the NHS and its patients
The benefits of good data cannot be underestimated.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow HealthWatch can help support local economies
Ross Griffiths explores how HealthWatch bodies have the opportunity to support local health economies and their scope for innovation in delivering care.
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NewsSocial enterprises face losing core contracts
Social enterprises set up by former NHS staff must improve their commercial skills or risk losing their contracts in the next two or three years, a key Department of Health official has told HSJ.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: faltering foundation trust ambitions in Devon
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week: how the transforming community services programme is affecting Devon organisations’ foundation trust ambitions.
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NewsSocial care system needs urgent funding reform - report
Urgent reform to the funding of the social care system is needed to meet the needs of an ageing population, health experts have said.
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HSJ Local
West Mids volunteers respond to 999 calls
PERFORMANCE: Volunteer paramedics in the West Midlands responded to more than 400 999 calls last month, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CCGs can make the best use of tightening resources
CCGs will face enormous pressure to make spending decisions in a transparent and effective way. Gary Belfield looks at how they can make the most of their cash.
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NewsFT ambitions will be 'very challenging' for community trusts
A leading provider of integrated health and social care looks set to abandon its ambitions to become a standalone community foundation trust in a move lawyers say could be repeated elsewhere.
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NewsExclusive: acutes' deficit and savings performance worsens, DH figures show
Plans to cut deficits in the acute trust sector fell further behind in the third quarter of 2011-12 as hospitals struggled to make up lost ground on challenging savings targets.
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HSJ Local
New tracking system helps learning disability patients
PERFORMANCE: A unique patient-tracking system has been introduced by Sussex Community Trust to help patients with learning disabilities in West Sussex get targeted specialist support on admission.
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HSJ Local
Gloucestershire could set up CFT
STRUCTURE: NHS Gloucestershire will be allowed to consider setting up a community foundation trust to house its provider arm, after being granted special permission from the Department of Health.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: a healthcare crisis facing Cumbria
HSJ Local Briefing is our new in-depth analysis of the key issues facing the NHS’s major health economies. This week, HSJ looks at the healthcare crisis in Cumbria.
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HSJ Local
Physio phone triage rolled out in Surrey
STRUCTURE: Physiotherapy patients in mid Surrey are now benefiting from telephone triage within 48 hours of GP referral, according to the county’s main community social enterprise.
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NewsGovernment announces extra mental health funding for veterans
War veterans and their families are to be offered greater help with their mental wellbeing, it has been announced.
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HSJ Local
COPD project scoops best practice award
PERFORMANCE: A project to help Wirral patients with chronic lung diseases manage their own care has won a regional award for best practice.
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HSJ Local
New medical unit at South Essex FT
SERVICES: A new short stay medical unit has been opened in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire.