All Integrated care articles – Page 28
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HSJ LocalICS fails in second attempt to appoint a chair
A troubled integrated care system has failed to appoint a chair for a second time.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Attacks on managers go beyond the boardroom
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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CommentCovid has given us the data blueprint for ‘programming’ population health
Data and analytics will provide the timely insights ICSs need if they are to take action and meet the new triple aim - improve outcomes, tackle inequalities and enhance productivity. By Joe Rafferty, Jim Hughes and Professor Iain Buchan
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CommentICSs pose a potential risk to improving stroke care
Even though Integrated Stroke Delivery Networks, vital to the further transformation required in stroke prevention and treatment, may span multiple ICSs, there is currently no mechanism to ensure that their plans and priorities are joined up. By Juliet Bouverie
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CommentThe NHS needs more leaders who ‘think in systems’
For all the welcome aspects of the Health and Care Bill, it is culture, not structure, that ultimately determines the quality of health system integration, writes Dr Parth Patel
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CommentICSs take over in just six months, but many questions remain unanswered
With six months to go until integrated care systems become statutory bodies, Georgia Butterworth explores the aspects of system working that are currently preoccupying trust leaders.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The Saj spotlights ‘disparities’
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentHow ICSs can avoid becoming SHAs 2.0
How can the pursuit of integrated care be maintained during recovery, and ICSs prevented from becoming strategic health authorities 2.0, writes Sir John Oldham
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HSJ LocalICS sets ‘maturity’ test for its ‘places’ to access budgets
Nine areas within a large integrated care system are to be assessed in terms of their ‘maturity’ — with the most developed potentially taking on delegated budgets and decision-making from April next year.
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CommentIntegrated care systems and the inverse leadership rule
In 1971 GP Julian Tudor Hart proposed the idea of the inverse care law. His tongue-in-cheek provocation stated: “The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.”
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CommentJulian Patterson: The Lego NHS reconstruction set
Lego and the Department of Health and Social Care promise to help us rediscover the joys of bricking it at scale says Julian Patterson
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NewsNHS England seeks ‘strong’ COO who can ‘suspend ego’
NHS England is advertising for a “strong” permanent chief operating officer who “suspends ego”, following Amanda Pritchard’s promotion to CEO earlier this year.
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NewsBoards responsible for integration strategy unlikely to be fully operational before autumn 2022
The government has acknowledged that integrated care systems are unlikely to have fully established the partnership boards designed to drive joint working between the NHS and local government until at least five months after ICSs become statutory bodies.
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NewsICS leaders must have courage to put quality first, says CQC chief inspector
The Care Quality Commission’s outgoing chief inspector of hospitals has called on integrated care system leaders to be ‘courageous’ in putting quality first.
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HSJ PartnersA bionic approach to population health
Stephen Sutherland and Dr Ben Horner recommend eight steps to a bionic population health approach, building momentum to improve health and address inequalities
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CommentWhy doesn’t patient-centred care happen in the NHS?
A large gap remains between the rhetoric and the reality of patient-centred care in the NHS. Why does this happen, what does it feel like when it goes wrong, and, most importantly, what can be done about it, ask Naomi Chambers and Jeremy Taylor in their new book
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021: Best Use of Integrated Care and Partnership Working in Patient Safety Award
WINNER Pennine Lancashire ICP (including East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria FT, East Lancashire Medical Services, Pennine Lancashire Primary Care General Practices, Pennine Lancashire CCGs, Council for Voluntary Services): Integrated Pennine Lancashire Covid Virtual Ward; Rapid Mobilisation, Patient Safety and Partnership Working
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NewsRevealed: What each ICS could pay its chief executive
HSJ has mapped what has been revealed so far on who will lead England’s 42 integrated care systems leadership, including how much each CEO could be paid.
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HSJ PartnersClinical engagement in service development holds the key to embedding innovation in cancer services
This is paid-for content from our commercial partners. Find out more This article was organised and fully funded by Bristol Myers Squibb, and developed in collaboration by BMS and HSJ. This article has no promotional intent. Bristol-Myers Squibb does not intend to encourage the use ...
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HSJ PartnersWinds of change blowing through the NHS
Sponsored by In this podcast, Peter Edwards, solicitor and partner at Capsticks, discusses changes being made across the NHS as we move towards the establishment of integrated care boards. Audio: Establishment of integrated care boards