All Health and Care Bill reforms articles – Page 3
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CommentEnding the short termism in health inequality policy
Toby Lewis on what it will take to tackle the waste and harm caused by health inequalities
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Saving the primary care network 20,000
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsStevens: Gazprom contracts mean NHS funding Russia’s ‘dictatorial regime’
The NHS’ purchase of gas from Russian state owned energy company Gazprom means it is in effect funding ‘dictatorial regimes… engaged in acts of aggression,’ according to former chief executive of NHS England Lord Simon Stevens.
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CommentIf ‘place’ is working, it should feel uncomfortable
The government’s new health white paper sets out steps towards what ‘joined-up care’ will really mean, finally recognising the centrality of place. Claire Kennedy finds much to celebrate, as well as big questions to be answered.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will NHS regions ‘get out of the way’?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsGovernment agrees Health and Care Bill concessions
The government has approved several changes to the Health and Care Bill, including transparency on mental health funding, in a move sector leaders have hailed an ‘important step forward for parity’.
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NewsGovernment reveals details of plans to scale back NHS competition
The government has set out its plans to scale back competition rules for healthcare contracts, after adopting proposals put forward by NHS England.
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CommentHow the Health and Care Bill can help the homeless and socially excluded
The new structures and duties proposed in the Bill, to integrate services around patient’s needs and across organisational boundaries present the opportunity for a step-change in our collective responses to the most excluded, writes Alex Bax
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NewsRole of NHS national and regional teams under review as ICSs develop, says Confed chief
The role of the centre and region of NHS England is under review because trusts will increasingly be accountable to and challenged by their integrated care systems, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Power to the SAPs
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsICSs must devolve ‘significant’ budget to ‘place’, says government
Integrated care systems must put a single person in charge of health and social care in each of their constituent ‘places’ by April next year, and let them manage a ‘significant’ chunk of the budget, government has said.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: ‘Four hundred people were approached to lead our ICS… just one was credible’
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ performance, recovery and workforce correspondent Nick Kituno, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsNew chair for red-rated ICS
Sir Andrew Cash has been appointed as interim chair of Lincolnshire’s integrated care board.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ‘Parliament is being treated with absolute contempt by NHS England’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentThe buy-out is the existential threat to the NHS
NHS does face real and existential danger - not from a sudden ‘sell-off’, but rather from the ‘buy-out’. And it is happening, uncontested, before our eyes, writes Chris Thomas
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NewsHalf of ICSs have not published board papers
Nearly half integrated care systems published no board papers for the whole of last year despite national policy indicating they should, HSJ has found.
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NewsStevens intervenes to force transparency on funding amid fears of service cuts
Lord Simon Stevens has proposed amendments to the Health and Care Bill which would force the government to be transparent about levels of mental health funding.
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NewsICS launch delayed until July
The move to put integrated care systems on a statutory footing and close clinical commissioning groups has been delayed by three months, HSJ understands.
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NewsFinal ICS confirms chief executive
All 42 integrated care systems have now named their chief executive designate — or declared that they have failed to appoint.
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NewsICS go-live date could be delayed by six months, leak reveals
The transfer from clinical commissioning groups to integrated care systems may be delayed by up to six months, according to NHS England scenario planning seen by HSJ.