All Integrated care articles – Page 109
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HSJ Local
Departing Whipps Cross chief exec looks forward to merger project role
WORKFORCE: Chief executive Lucy Moore’s last day at the north-east London trust was 25 March, following her appointment as integration director for the merger programme with Barts and the London and Newham University Hospital trusts.
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HSJ KnowledgeA helping hand for NHS values: leadership needs to reinvigorate culture of care
Last month’s health ombudsman’s report revealed how the NHS has the potential to fall dramatically short of its values and commitments when the principles of care are forgotten. Leadership needs to step in now, suggests Gemma Pearson, to create a culture of care that will ensure repeat incidents are avoided.
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NewsKing's Fund calls to unite health and social care budgets
The government must adopt a single budget for £121bn of health and social care funding to stop the two systems fighting against each other, the King’s Fund has warned.
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CommentWhat do we really care about in the NHS?
While there are plenty of people who care about making the system work, in striving for improved access and technical excellence we seem to have stopped caring for the whole person. So what is it we really care about?
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping community children's health services
A complex reprocurement set out to help young patients and their families benefit from integrated community services. Kevin Hewitt, partnership director of the Community Children’s Health Partnership, explains the journey.
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Comment'There are no winners while there is 'them and us' tribalism in the NHS'
“Them and us”. All too often an off-hand remark and the death knell of a beautiful conversation, usually with the word “tariff” thrown in.
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HSJ Local
Central London community trust plans integrated care pilot for diabetes and elderly care
STRUCTURE: The community provider was approved to begin the integrated care pilot by NHS London and will work with a local acute trust, GPs and the local authority.
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HSJ KnowledgeIndividual wellness at the centre of new public health approach
A call to action in the North West for a new dimension of public health thinking places ‘wellness’ of the individual at its heart. Dr Ruth Hussey and Jude Stansfield explain.
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HSJ KnowledgePublic-private health services show bright promise in Spain
Bupa’s Spanish subsidiary’s example of public-private health services is arousing interest in the UK, says Daloni Carlisle.
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CommentMichael White: somwhere to escape the cuts
Wherever you turn at present it’s hard to escape the government’s cuts programme. I confirmed that (again) when I rang my sister at the nursery-infant-and-parenting unit she has worked in for many years. Their budget has been slashed, redundancies loom. Should she volunteer to go, taking decades of experience with ...
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HSJ Local
Rotherham FT takes on community services
STRUCTURE: The Rotherham Foundation Trust is merging with Rotherham Community Health Services, Bassetlaw Community Services and the Doncaster dental access centre and out of hours service.
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NewsNigel Edwards calls for constructive dialogue on competition
The head of the NHS Confederation has urged for “constructive dialogue” about the effect of greater competition in healthcare.
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CommentWhat happens if the health reforms work?
Anyone looking at the future of the government’s reforms is always interested in the question: “What happens if this doesn’t really work the way the government wants it to?”
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NewsNHS Surrey invites offers for £650m community services contract
One of the largest primary care trusts in the country has put its community health provider arm out for tender at a value of up to £650m.
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NewsEarl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
Health minister Earl Howe has denied there is any conflict between opening up healthcare provision to more competition and encouraging collaboration between providers.
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NewsNHS market faces closer EU attention
Government plans to allow “any willing provider” to compete for most NHS clinical contracts could expose the health service to challenge under European competition law, experts warn.
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NewsHereford integrated care organisation approved
A new form of integrated care organisation has received approval from the cooperation and competition panel.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to reduce COPD admissions with personal care plans
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the second most common cause of emergency admissions to hospital; one in eight acute emergency admissions is the result of an acute exacerbation of the condition.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers
Concluding their look at integrated healthcare services, Judith Smith and Chris Ham set out seven proposals for making it happen in light of the Equity and Excellence white paper
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HSJ KnowledgeRemoving policy barriers to integrated healthcare
Closer integration of care may be taking on an ever-higher profile, but it is often thwarted by government policy, write Chris Ham and Judith Smith