All Integrated care articles – Page 3
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NewsNeighbourhood providers to gradually replace PCNs
Integrated care boards will be expected to offer GP practices additional services and funding to drive them to form new “neighbourhood providers” – but will get no new national money to do so.
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NewsICB CEO temporarily steps down after three months
The interim chief executive of an integrated care board cluster has temporarily stepped down after just three months in the role.
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NewsHealth experience no longer ‘essential’ for ICB chiefs
A new NHS England template job description for integrated care board chief executives has dropped a requirement for “executive healthcare experience”, HSJ has learned.
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CommentRespiratory care is the litmus test for neighbourhood health
Neighbourhood health offers a chance to transform respiratory care, but success will depend on sustained investment, community diagnostics and making lung health a national priority
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The DHSC needs an offer on devo
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 and correspondent Mimi Launder.
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NewsShift out of hospitals must be ‘realistic’, warn doctors
A royal college has added to concerns that a shift in NHS funding to expand “neighbourhood” care risks undermining “safe, sustainable hospital services”.
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NewsCEO warns against ‘top slicing’ acutes for ‘well meaning’ neighbourhood schemes
Large acute trusts are shouldering unreasonable risk because their funding has been “top sliced” to pay for “well meaning” but unproven “neighbourhood health” schemes, a leading London CEO has told HSJ.
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Comment12 months on, the 10-Year Health Plan is still on the launchpad
The NHS 10-Year Health Plan promised transformative change, but one year on, implementation remains slow, uneven, and lacking transparency
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Totally divorced from reality
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.
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News‘Failure to deliver reforms has cost NHS billions’, claims ex-DHSC adviser
NHS England’s failure to deliver recommended reforms to pathology services has cost the service billions of pounds in lost savings over the last decade, a senior peer who previously reviewed the sector has claimed.
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CommentNot sharing information effectively is a bigger problem than privacy
Better data sharing, national digital infrastructure, and clear accountability are essential if WorkWell is to transform work and health support
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NewsCapital approvals still ‘very, very elongated’, says CFO
Approval processes for NHS capital spending remain “very, very elongated” – despite promised improvements – an experienced chief finance officer has told MPs.
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NewsDash: Primary care has twice the space it needs
The NHS may have “twice as much” floor space for GP practices and associated services as it actually needs, the chair of NHS England has said.
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NewsDispute flares up over health centre development
An integrated care board is in dispute with one of its primary care networks over a bid to convert a former police station into a health centre.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Looking inward – just in time for Burnham
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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NewsRevealed: Promised ‘neighbourhood health centres’ already met requirements
Nearly all the first wave of “neighbourhood health centres” – currently being developed for launch by next year – were already doing the job required of the model, government documents reveal.
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HSJ InteractiveWatch on demand: Experts discuss how connected care can help reduce health inequalities
Reducing health inequalities is central to the 10-Year Health Plan. But achieving this with limited resources will mean “working smarter”, according to a former cabinet minister speaking at an HSJ webinar, held in association with Sciensus.
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CommentInvolving patients and charities is the key to making neighbourhood health work
Voluntary sector partnerships and patient involvement are essential to delivering preventive and effective neighbourhood care
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CommentReducing hospital demand is not the right test for neighbourhood care
The idea that neighbourhood care can reduce demand on hospitals is not the given many claim it to be. But is it even the right question to ask?
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: What makes an advanced foundation trust?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by correspondent Mimi Launder.