All Health and wellbeing boards articles – Page 3
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NewsCCG barometer survey: interactive graphics
Full figures showing clinical commissioning group leaders’ views about the prospect of health and wellbeing board being responsible for health services, and the impact of competition rules.
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NewsLabour pledges to avoid 'extreme' cuts to social care
Labour has pledged to avoid ‘extreme’ cuts to social care in the next parliament in order to improve quality of care and prevent further pressure on the NHS.
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NewsStevens: There will not be a single commissioning model
There will not be a single commissioning model across England over the next five years, with local authorities and accountable care organisations increasingly taking on these functions, Simon Stevens has said.
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CommentTo achieve devo Manc, we need trust between key stakeholders
Devolving Manchester’s health and social care budgets
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CommentCulture change will make or break devo Manc reform
Solutions are needed to combat the delivery risks of devolution
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NewsCounties should get health devolution, says report
Delayed discharges from hospitals into social care are 43 per cent higher than average in county areas, leaving them financially stretched but without devolved control over health, MPs have warned.
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NewsLord Hunt: CCGs to be advisers to HWBs
Clinical commissioning groups will ‘ultimately’ be reduced to an advisory role for health and wellbeing boards under a Labour government, according to a shadow health minister.
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HSJ LocalCalderdale reconfiguration rejected in council report
STRUCTURE: There is ‘not convincing evidence’ that proposals to reconfigure services hospitals services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield would ‘produce better health outcomes for our population or represent good value for money’, a council commissioned report has found.
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Leader£500m risk transfer will not end the search for financial stability
Risk transfer signals “years of ad hoc approaches”
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NewsCore GP services could be part of pooled budgets
The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on an amendment that would allow budgets for core GP services to be pooled with clinical commissioning group and local authorities’ funds.
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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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CommentLabour must resist the urge to dictate and mandate in its 10 year plan
Labour policy must be measured against the forward view
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HSJ LocalOxfordshire 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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NewsExclusive: 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
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NewsCCGs permitted to ditch QOF and national GP contract
Clinical commissioning groups will be free to allow GP practices to move off the national pay for performance framework and to create new contract arrangements
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Council refuses to sign off integration plan
A council has refused to sign off its better care fund plan after failing to reach an agreement with NHS commissioners on how to use part of the pooled budget
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NewsHunt: NHS has 'responsibility' to help councils
Health service must help with local government’s ‘tough financial settlement’, the health secretary has said
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LeaderBurnham fills in the blanks on 'reform without reorganisation'
Labour shadow outlines plans in an exclusive interview