Community services – Page 96
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to achieve best practice referral management for mental health patients
A London trust has been auditing mental health referrals in a bid to improve the quality of screening in secondary care older adult mental health patients. Ranjit Mahanta and Seraphim Patel explain the results.
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HSJ Local
Delayed transfers at Birmingham Community twice SHA target
PERFORMANCE: Delayed transfers of care at Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust are running at more than twice the NHS West Midlands target.
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HSJ Local
Birmingham Community Healthcare chasing PCT for outstanding £587,000
FINANCE: Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust is owed £587,000 by NHS Sandwell, which has failed to repay the money within the 90 day limit.
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HSJ Local
Cornwall names AQP services
COMMERCIAL: NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly have decided to open up adult primary care psychological therapies, musculo-skeletal services for back and neck pain and community adult hearing services to any qualified provider.
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NewsSpecialist care housing model losing funding
Specialist housing integrated with care provision may not survive as a long term model for providing care for older people, a report has warned.
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HSJ Local
Zero mixed sex breaches in September for Sussex Community Trust
PERFORMANCE: Sussex Community NHS Trust recorded no breaches of the Department of Health’s guidelines on mixed sex accommodation last month.
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NewsChildren's talking therapies to be part of £30m investment
Talking therapies for children and teenagers with mental health problems will be provided as part of a £32m investment in psychological therapies, it has been announced.
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NewsTCS social enterprise transfer faces legal challenge
A judge has ordered a primary care trust to halt the planned transfer of its provider arm to a social enterprise, pending the outcome of a High Court hearing.
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HSJ Local
Kingston health providers to run primary school
STRUCTURE: Kingston Council, NHS Kingston, South West London Healthcare Partnership and community provider Your Healthcare are to run a new primary school in a partnership between the health and education sectors.
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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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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 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.