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NewsNHSE: Ambulance, community and private organisations ‘should join provider groups’
New NHS England guidance has said ambulance, community and private providers ‘should’ join new collaboratives, rather than only acute and mental health trusts.
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CommentDalton: Creating a sustainable NHS remains the goal
Sir David Dalton offers an update on what the NHS has achieved in the wake of his inquiry
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NewsMapped: The NHS trusts merging, forming chains or building alliances
Our map shows the spread of current and proposed major collaborations between whole acute trusts across England, including mergers, acquisitions, shared leadership and chains.
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Expert BriefingWhat's new in care models: Can a long distance relationship work?
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View. By integration reporter David Williams.
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NewsFour trusts given power to lead hospital chains
NHS Improvement grants four high performing trusts the power to lead groups or chains of hospitals The foundation group leaders will be able to head up buddying, partnerships and federations of hospitals or begin mergers and acquisitions The accreditation aims to give the four trusts the power to bring ...
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Expert BriefingWhat's new in care models: David Dalton answers our questions on the future of chains
Tracking everything that’s new in care models and progress of the Five Year Forward View, by integration reporter David Williams.
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CommentAre hospital chains a sustainable NHS delivery model?
If the NHS is serious about getting behind hospital chains, then obstacles of resource, regulation and commissioning need to be addressed, writes Ian Baxter
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HSJ LocalThird trust considers joining Dalton’s ‘hospital chain’
Bolton was previously reluctant to join Salford Royal and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh in their foundation group Trusts expected to retain separate boards under the new model, but could be run by a joint executive team The three FTs have begun discussions over reconfiguration of breast surgery and women’s ...
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HSJ LocalRoyal Liverpool board says more work needed on merger plan
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen board says clinicians make “compelling case” for joint working with Aintree University Hospital But it concludes further work needed to evaluate all options before deciding whether merger is best option Aintree endorsed clinicians’ recommendation to pursue merger Trusts expected to develop business case that will ...
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NewsExclusive: ‘Trusts with no future’ list on hold again
Plans to publish a list of NHS trusts unlikely to have a future as independent organisations have been put on hold, the NHS Trust Development Authority has indicated.
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NewsAddenbrooke's recovery could take 'years', warns McNeil
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust’s recently departed chief executive has warned he ‘does not know how the trust will cope’ this winter and that its problems could take years to address.
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NewsMapped: Acute care vanguards revealed
Thirteen bids have been chosen to take forward NHS England’s vanguard for future models of acute care.
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NewsThe NHS has 'too many trusts', says Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said there are ‘too many trusts’ in the NHS and the health service needs to ‘up the pace’ of work on hospital chains and other provider reforms.
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HSJ KnowledgeDalton: The NHS needs a best practice recipe to prosper across the board
Standardise operating systems and clinical pathways
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NewsExclusive: Leading FTs lay groundwork for hospital chains
Three of England’s most well respected foundation trusts are working on a partnership through which they can lay the groundwork to build and run hospital chains, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSurvey: What commissioners want to happen to their unsustainable providers
Most commissioners with unsustainable hospital providers would prefer to see those organisations reform by establishing joint ventures or by joining with GPs, an HSJ survey indicates.
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NewsDalton: Carter review will only take the NHS so far
Sir David Dalton has said the Carter review’s efficiency recommendations for providers will only take the sector ‘so far’. Providers should form groups in some areas to reduce variation in quality.
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CommentStaff engagement is the NHS's greatest asset but it's yet to reach full potential
It’s a pre-condition for high performing healthcare