All Integrated care articles – Page 118
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NewsNHS Alliance voices fears on integrated care scheme
A proposed integrated care scheme between City Hospitals Sunderland trust and Church View Medical Practice is not in the best interests of patients, says the NHS Alliance.
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NewsIntegrated care pilot to be investigated
One of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot schemes is to be investigated by the co-operation and competition panel to see if it breaches merger, choice and competition rules.
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NewsCan integrated care usher in a new age of risk taking?
A speedy selection process has led to 16 projects being picked for integrated care pilots. Can they improve quality and test bold ideas or have we seen it all before, asks Helen Crump
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Integrated care will be tested by only 16 organisations
Just 16 organisations have made it onto the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot scheme.
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NHS integrated care pilots to be test bed for 'risky' ideas
Integrated care pilots will be given the chance to shape Department of Health policy up to and including tariff reform, the primary care czar has revealed.Speaking as the DH revealed the 36 organisations shortlisted for the scheme, national clinical director for primary care David Colin-Thomé said the organisations making the ...
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More than 100 step up with integrated care scheme bids
The Department of Health has received more than twice as many bids than expected to set up integrated care schemes.
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Integrated care pilot sites sought
The Department of Health is looking for primary care trusts ready to commission new services from innovative groups of clinicians in a bid to pilot integrated care.
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NHS integrated care bids face two-part assessment
Bidders will have to navigate a two-stage application process to take part in the Department of Health's integrated care pilot scheme.
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Integrated care warning
Integration is in vogue. This is fine, but different enthusiasts interpret 'integration' differently. Confused enthusiasm is never a good thing on which to base health policy. At its best, such confusion could waste money; at its worst, it could cost lives.
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HSJ Knowledge
Integrated care connections
The Connected Care project involves healthcare organisations genuinely listening to local people. Paul Dinsdale tunes in
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Surrey is first to agree its integrated care proposals
The first primary care trust to unveil its plans for an integrated care pilot has warned that commissioners will have to overcome existing 'anomalies' to make the initiative work.
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NHS Alliance sets out integrated care framework
The NHS Alliance has set out a proposed framework for the new integrated care pilots announced in Lord Darzi's next stage review.Along with goals such as clinical quality and financial accountability, it recommends putting an emphasis on prevention and reduction of ill-health; promoting collaboration across primary, community and secondary care ...
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PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.
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PCT-backed integrated care pilots to go ahead
Lord Darzi's primary and community care strategy, due today, will push for integrated services and new rights for primary care trust provider staff.
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Integrated care heightens provider monopolies risk
Primary care trusts will need to hold powerful monopoly providers to account if Lord Darzi gives integrated care systems the go-ahead.
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Integrated care pilots tipped for Darzi review
Significant changes to how primary care trusts commission services are being considered as part of Lord Darzi's next stage review.Sources have revealed to HSJ that pilots for integrated care schemes are strongly tipped to feature in the report due out in two weeks.
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HSJ Knowledge
Integrated care - lessons from America
The US healthcare industry is often ranked below the UK system in international comparisons. But the UK health service still has much to learn from America about integration and partnership working
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Comment
The case for integrated care systems
John Deffenbaugh's article on commissioning is a majestic triumph of hope over experience and evidence.
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HSJ Knowledge
Promoting partnerships through the Integrated Care Network
The Integrated Care Network plays a key role in promoting partnership working in the health service. Julia Thompson reports on its work
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Feedback on Peter Degeling's article on integrated care pathways.
We write in relation to the recent article written by Peter Degeling on integrated care pathways. The claim that '30 clinicians walked out of a recent presentation' in Swansea is entirely false.