All Health and wellbeing boards articles – Page 2
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CommentCan STPs deliver?
Rebecca Malby on how STPs are struggling to secure effective ways of solving the very complex problems the NHS faces
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HSJ KnowledgeGood governance is an enabler, not a necessary evil
The well-led framework, while focusing on board governance, reviews emerging themes, helping trusts move to a system leadership perspective
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CommentVanguards must utilise their workforce to the best of their ability
The NHS is under such considerable pressure that we need to make best use of our dedicated staff and teams.
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CommentTrying to handle responsibilities without resources
Local authorities will struggle to implement their health and wellbeing strategies if they must be delivered on an ever shorter shoestring
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NewsLancashire exploring single HWB to oversee transformation plans
A single health and wellbeing board covering the whole Lancashire and south Cumbria sustainability and transformation plan footprint could be created, in a bid to increase local government oversight of reconfiguration plans.
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HSJ LocalTrust leaders accused of focusing on 'institutional preservation'
Sir Richard Leese said Pennine Acute’s business plan under previous management “prioritised institutional preservation” Manchester council is leading a review of hospital services in the city HSJ has previously highlighted tensions over the future of North Manchester General Hospital The leader of Manchester City Council has accused the ...
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HSJ KnowledgeCharting the increasing role of allied health professionals in the NHS
HCL Workforce Solutions’ Claire Billenness on the positive contribution made by the AHP workforce to the country’s health and wellbeing
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CommentCare and support planning: the role of voluntary, community and social enterprise
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society’s Phil Baker outlines the importance of VCSEs in the development of care planning
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NewsCouncillors to warn Hunt over NHS 'hijack' of STPs
Local government is being “left out in the cold” by the NHS in the rush to develop sustainability and transformation plans, leading councillors have claimed.
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NewsSurvey: Commissioners lack faith in HWBs to deliver change
Clinical commissioning groups lack confidence in their local health and wellbeing boards’ ability to deliver change and the likelihood of the NHS making £22bn in efficiency savings.
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CommentPeople power is the key to saving the planet
Top-down leadership plus harnessed emotional intelligence can create great change on sustainability
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NewsMapped: How has your region performed on transfers of care?
Full analysis: The best and worst regions for delayed transfers of care HSJ’s exclusive map of delayed transfers of care performance illustrates the full extent of variability across the country in this increasingly important indicator.
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HSJ LocalManchester commissioners threaten to tender hospital services
Manchester trusts acknowledge need for “comprehensive range” of clinical networks CCGs and council threaten to recommission services if meaningful changes are not agreed Organisational mergers could be considered COMMISSIONING: Three large acute providers have drawn up plans for a “single hospital service” in Manchester, as commissioners threaten to ...
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NewsRollout of shared care records can cut DTOCs, commission says
Commission calls for the DH to assess the cost of national living wage for social care sector There is an “urgent need” for delayed transfer definitions for mental health Payment mechanisms should be “coordinated” and block contract payments should be dropped Delayed transfers of care can be avoided ...
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LeaderThe better care fund will soon be redundant
If it lingers it will divert money away from efforts to fuse health and social care
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NewsCQC to assess whole health systems
The Care Quality Commission is to pilot assessing whole health systems as part of a move towards a more place based approach to regulation.
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NewsRevealed: 10 potential MPs to watch in health
Three candidates with experience of NHS management feature in a top 10 list of potential MPs to watch in health after the election.
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NewsExclusive: CCG leaders fear political priorities would come first under HWBs
A large majority of commissioning leaders believe clinical priorities would lose out to political priorities if lead responsibility for NHS services was handed to health and wellbeing boards, an exclusive HSJ survey has found.
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HSJ PartnersCCG barometer: Mix of confidence and concern
CCGs are confident they can implement new care models of care described in the forward view, but they will need local and national political backing, says Peter Edwards