All Integrated care articles – Page 111
-
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?”
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
NewsHereford integrated care organisation approved
A new form of integrated care organisation has received approval from the cooperation and competition panel.
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
CommentMark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?
Australian interest in foundation trusts has thrown their achievements into stark relief
-
NewsRoyal London drops 'homeopathy' from its title
A London NHS hospital is dropping the word homeopathy from its title, it has been announced.
-
CommentChris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency
Clinicians must put away self-interest if they are to earn the new powers set out in the white paper
-
NewsSocial enterprise bid rethink by North East PCTs
A ballot on whether to turn three primary care trust provider arms in the North East into a social enterprise has been suspended.
-
NewsPCTs should ‘reinvent’ themselves, says Britnell
Primary care trusts should seek to reinvent themselves as social enterprises providing commissioning support to GP consortia, according to the architect of the world class commissioning programme.
-
NewsImperial recruits PCT chief in integrated care drive
Imperial College Healthcare Trust has hired a primary care trust chief executive to lead its work to become an integrated healthcare organisation.
-
HSJ KnowledgeBranding in the NHS
When times are tough branding might not seem a priority, but well thought out branding has the power to save an organisation money.
-
LeaderClarity is the key to tackling excess admissions
Penalties for trusts doing too many emergency admissions, introduced in April, do not appear to have brought the numbers down.
-
CommentStephen Eames on GPs in the hotseat
At a recent dinner party, a fellow guest, who happened to be a GP, said: “If I was to invite my colleagues to a meeting about practice based commissioning, I would be there on my own with the sandwiches” (well, actually these days it would be without the sandwiches.).
-
NewsNHS Surrey attracts Hertfordshire chief exec
NHS Surrey has appointed Anne Walker as its new chief executive.
-
HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated care services
The new guide From the Ground Up is an invaluable toolkit for PCT service planners and estates managers wanting to develop sites and buildings to support the delivery of integrated care services.
-
NewsPool NHS and social care budgets, says Confed acting chief exec
Pooled health and social care budgets should be considered in order to help get through the public sector spending squeeze, NHS Confederation acting chief executive Nigel Edwards has said.