All articles by David Williams – Page 14
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Community providers gear up to lead on new care models
Community service providers are positioning themselves to lead efforts to establish the new integrated models of care recommended in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
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Exclusive: Bidders shortlisted for £1bn primary care support contract
Three bidders have been shortlisted for a £1bn, 10 year contract to provide critical primary care support services, NHS England has confirmed.
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Cambridgeshire system plans joint integration bid
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough health economy is likely to submit a joint expression of interest to develop a new integrated model of care, HSJ has learned.
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Clegg pledges £8bn extra for the NHS by 2020
The Liberal Democrats have become the first major party to publicly commit to increasing NHS funding to levels recommended in the NHS Five Year Forward View – but the pledge depends on ongoing economic growth and the elimination of the budget deficit.
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Unrealistic better care fund targets must be revised, says NHS England
Projected savings of more than £250m from the government’s flagship integrated care policy are at risk.
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Emergency care demand for older people predicted to rise
Emergency admissions among older people are likely to keep rising during the next five years, a Department of Health funded study has found. This is despite ministers’ claims that the better care fund will lead to a reduction in non-elective activity.
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Exclusive: Better care fund investment returns 'wildly unrealistic', analysis finds
One in 10 better care fund plans are predicting a first year return on investment of more than 20 per cent, HSJ analysis has revealed, prompting new suggestions that the financial planning of the fund is ‘wildly unrealistic’.
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Exclusive: Top hospital chief criticises 'out of area' referrals move
An attempt by NHS England to protect patient choice by preventing hospitals closing their doors to ‘out of area’ referrals has been strongly criticised by a leading foundation trust chief executive.
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HSJ100 analysis – integration: The ‘joined up’ thinkers at the heart of party policy
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-INTEGRATIONHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-INTEGRATION In various forms, integration is the dominant principle underpinning the policy offers from all three major parties, and in particular explains the positioning of Norman Lamb and Andy Burnham in the top 100.Mr Lamb (16) can lay claim to being the ...
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Schism emerges over Stevens' integrated care organisation models
Plans to introduce a range of new care models into the NHS over the next parliament has split the opinion of provider chiefs and clinical commissioning group leaders
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Survey finds strong support for NHS Leadership Academy
Health leaders have given a strong vote of approval to the NHS Leadership Academy in HSJ’s joint survey with FTI Consulting
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Exclusive: Details of the £2bn NHS funding boost revealed
The government has announced an extra £1.95bn will be injected into the NHS in 2015-16 - but details of how the money will be allocated, obtained exclusively by HSJ, reveal that only a quarter of the total will be spent on transformation, with the rest set aside to maintain existing ...
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Aspirant FTs could have option to become a mutual
NHS trusts could in future choose between becoming a foundation trust or an independent mutually owned company as the provider sector becomes increasingly ‘fluid and uncertain’, HSJ has been told.
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Cashflow problems cause trust to delay payments
FINANCE: Cashflow problems at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust have forced the provider to delay payments to some suppliers and apply for extra central funding.
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Exclusive: Multinational arms firm among those interested in £1bn NHS tender
Multinational companies including G4S and arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin are among those that have expressed interest in a £1bn contract to run GP support services outsourced by NHS England, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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Oxfordshire better care fund plan 'unrealistic'
Oxfordshire commissioners failed to submit a realistic better care fund plan in part because they were distracted by work on other local integration initiatives, they have admitted.
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CSU boss appointed NHS England regional director
A former commissioning support unit boss has been appointed NHS England’s regional director for the south
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Oxford University Hospitals chief Sir Jonathan Michael to retire
The chief executive of one of the biggest and most prestigious acute trusts in England is to step down, the trust has announced.
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Exclusive: Social care to benefit most under better care fund
Local authority run social care services will receive a greater financial benefit than NHS community services from the £5.3bn better care fund project, analysis reveals