All End of life care articles – Page 5
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NewsCall for better end of life care training
NHS hospitals risk repeating mistakes during end of life care if they ask staff to rely on formal processes rather than focusing on patient outcomes, HSJ has been told.
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Supplements
Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in Commissioning Support Services
Value in Healthcare Awards winners for 2015
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CommentWhy the NHS must evaluate complex service changes
To maximise benefits for patients and minimise costs
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CommentOnly together can we beat cancer
Public-private collaboration is vital to win the war on cancer
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CommentLords help us: End of life provision falls short of supporting the dying
The Palliative Care Bill
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NewsExclusive: Multimillion pound cancer contract consortium revealed
A private company led consortium including two NHS trusts is now the only remaining bidder for a 10 year, £687m cancer services contract in Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: New NHS company reveals outcomes based targets
A new NHS owned company overseeing an £800m integrated older people’s services contract will have to hit outcomes based targets to secure up to 15 per cent of its income, its chief has told HSJ.
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SupplementsSupplement: Everybody’s talking about integration but can the NHS deliver?
An overview of integrated care
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HSJ KnowledgeEmergency care reform requires a whole system change
Start with understanding motivations
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HSJ PartnersPartnering with the voluntary sector gives patients more choice
Its role in integration
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NewsRevealed: Virgin handed £280m Staffordshire contract
Virgin Care has been awarded a £280m, seven-year prime provider contract to manage services in East Staffordshire, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentHSJ commission: Social care and housing are important to put older people first
Issues facing older people
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health rated ‘requires improvement’
PERFORMANCE: The country’s largest mental health and community services trust has been rated ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ PartnersThe right community care for the terminally ill can ease pressure in A&E
Improved care for terminally ill people can play a major part in reducing the burden on A&E departments
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HSJ PartnersThree steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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HSJ PartnersFast track palliative discharge services cut stays and admissions
Services in Glasgow and Lothian
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CommentWhat we want from politicians is courage, stability and realism
NHS needs stability and realism from health policy
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CommentCommissioners must help defuse England’s cancer time bomb
Tackling the looming cancer challenge
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NewsLabour reveals 10 year plan for health and social care
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has confirmed he wants health and wellbeing boards to be accountable for new ‘year of care budgets’ which would cover the ‘health and social care needs’ of those ‘at the greatest risk of hospitalisation’, but added that the funds would ‘be paid to an NHS ...