All Integrated care articles – Page 32
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Former ICS leader joins firm supporting vulnerable patients
The former leader of one of the first integrated care systems has joined a firm which is using data and coaching to support vulnerable people during the covid-19 outbreak.
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Government calls in ICS chair to plot next steps for social care
The chair of an integrated care system and former local authority director has been appointed as the lead of a new government covid-19 social care taskforce.
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Comment
A national urgent care planning service could be covid’s silver lining
Professor Julia Riley proposes a patient-focused strategy for care homes that would help implement a national digital advance care planning policy where advance care plans of patients are shared across all urgent care services.
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Comment
The NHS' rapid response to covid would have been impossible without CCGs
It’s not a choice between commissioning or provision, and the lessons from covid show that it’s about a re-focused set of commissioning activities and a re-focus of provision, writes Julie Wood
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NHSE waits on 1,700 practices just days before GP contract deadline
Three quarters of GP practices have now “confirmed or provisionally confirmed” they will opt in to 2020-21’s controversial primary care network contract — although national leaders are still waiting for 1,750 surgeries with just days until the deadline.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Bigger name leaders
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
What is the purpose of commissioners now?
Focusing on the population and the long-term planning mind-set for improving outcomes is what commissioners can bring to the table in times like these, writes Leeds CCG chief executive Tim Ryley.
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CCG chief takes on top role at ICS
A clinical commissioning group chief executive has taken on the top role at a southern integrated care system.
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HSJ Local
Ex-regulator chief returns from Qatar to lead integrated care system
The former chief executive of the Trust Development Authority has been appointed to chair an integrated care system in the North West.
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Care home residents paid ‘huge price’ for emptying of acute beds, says STP chair
The chair of a sustainability and transformation partnership and former health secretary says there was a ‘huge price paid’ by care home residents from the ‘emptying’ of acute beds in March.
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HSJ Interactive
Why we should reimagine rather than reopen
As the coronavirus pandemic has unravelled, there has been a shift in the way the NHS works. We should work to preserve the best of this new system while finding new ways to draw on the innovation that can emerge from collaboration, says Erin Birch
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Comment
Community services ‘will not bow’ as ‘bigger surge’ bites
Andrew Ridley looks at the challenges, preparation and recovery phases as the NHS starts planning beyond the initial peak of the outbreak and for the second phase of covid-19 response
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News
Four new ICSs announced
Four new integrated care systems have been confirmed by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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Capital to keep ‘total triage’ and ‘hot hubs’ for GPs
Health system leaders in London are working to ensure major changes to primary and community health care in the capital persist beyond the crisis, including patients being triaged remotely before all GP appointments.
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Comment
‘Think yourself into a new way of acting’
Will Warburton calls for innovative approaches to understand, assess, learn from and sustain the effective changes that have rapidly been put in place by the NHS.
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Comment
Testing and contact tracing: a role for local leaders
Local authorities must be at the heart of contact tracing because covid-19 is best understood as a pattern of local outbreaks rather than a national pandemic. By Sir Chris Ham and Robin Tuddenham.
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Comment
‘Let’s not get back to normal’
Phil Hope argues that healthcare devolution may carry the answers to four burning questions about how to battle the covid-19 crisis.
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HSJ Interactive
Will covid-19 close the integrated care gap or widen it?
It is time to rapidly shift our focus onto the primary, community and social care frontline to make our vision for integrated care a reality, writes Conor Burke
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HSJ Interactive
Working to achieve better management of patients with type 2 diabetes
A population health model for people with type 2 diabetes won Hampshire System Integrator the System Leadership Initiative of the Year category at the 2019 HSJ Awards. Jennifer Trueland explores the approach underpinning their success
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: SHAs would have helped with coronavirus
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.