All Integrated care articles – Page 7
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NewsICS picks permanent CEO
An integrated care system has appointed a substantive chief executive after her predecessor joined NHS England.
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HSJ PartnersImproving the lives of the people through place-based procurement
Stuart Watkins, health business manager at Crown Commercial Service, explains the importance of place-based procurement and offers key considerations for developing successful policies
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NewsNHSE forced to suspend £300m digital framework after ‘claim’ against it
NHS England has suspended a new framework to buy digital GP services — part of the national primary care recovery plan — after a “claim” was issued over the process, HSJ has learned.
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CommentMore NHS leaders should move beyond hospitals
The failure to move to community-based system is one of the health and care’s greatest failures, says Beccy Baird. But a total focus — perhaps requiring leaders to work in community and primary care — would make the difference.
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CommentWe must ‘hire before we fire’ declares ICB
Integrated care boards have been told to cut costs, but these things don’t do themselves. Taking a leaf out of the NHS England playbook, NHS Blithering explains that it is committed to taking on the additional resource needed to drive its rationalisation. By Julian Patterson
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HSJ PartnersElevating cyber resilience in healthcare: A necessity for better care delivery
Enhancing cyber resilience in healthcare is imperative for safeguarding patient data and ensuring uninterrupted care delivery amid growing cyber threats, writes Dr Mick Quinn
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HSJ PartnersTransforming healthcare delivery with EMRs
Robbie Trower, healthcare sector specialist and channel sales manager at Kodak Alaris explores how transforming records management enables healthcare providers to deliver more personalised and integrated services, resulting in better patient outcomes
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HSJ PartnersTime for our ICSs to embrace continuous improvement
In this final instalment of the KPMG integrated care series, Beccy Fenton asks Russ Jewell, KPMG partner and continuous quality improvement lead, to share his thoughts on why ICSs need to embrace continuous quality improvement to proactively manage the issues we are facing in healthcare
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HSJ PartnersDigitally transforming diagnostic pathways as NHS ramps up GP Direct Access to CDC resources
The advent of community diagnostic centres is welcome. But without their integration into pathways, systems and patients will struggle to benefit. Innovative Scottish company Lenus Health has evidenced a better way, using its plug-in digital diagnostic pathways to coordinate and automate the patient diagnostic journey from referral to treatment plan
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HSJ LocalICS row breaks out over patients being shunted to GPs
A row has broken out between senior leaders in Norfolk and Waveney over the volume of work being passed to GPs by the acute sector.
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NewsTrusts ‘pause’ merger of exec teams
Two hospital trusts with a combined turnover of nearly £3bn have “paused” plans to merge their executive director teams.
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HSJ InteractiveUsing data to tackle health inequalities
A recent HSJ webinar highlighted the need for transparency and effective data sharing as integrated care systems tackle health inequalities
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HSJ PartnersPutting patients first (wherever they are)
Roz Bekker, managing director, Janssen UK (soon to be rebranded to Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine), emphasises the need to stand together to make sure the ecosystem works in the best way it can, so that we leave no patient waiting
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HSJ InteractiveHow can ICSs navigate the EPR landscape for improved information flow, and what part does convergence play in this?
The panel at a recent HSJ webinar discussed the convergence agenda; how it can be achieved, what the benefits and challenges of implementation are, and the role it plays in improving patient care
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HSJ Local£800m deal to transfer control of community services to acutes
An integrated care board is planning to hand over control of community services worth an annual £80m to two acute trusts for the next five to 10 years.
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CommentWe need a tough conversation on the roles of ICSs and provider collaboratives
Richard Mitchell reflects on progress, strategic partnerships, and the imperative for radical change to shape a better healthcare future
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NewsTrusts ‘unlock radical ambitions’ with move to same EPR
More than half of the acute trusts in a single region are set to move to the same electronic patient record system, a shift one of their CIOs described as a “serendipitous” opportunity for sharing staff and other resources.
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CommentICBs will not improve collaboration if they also try to be performance managers
Sara Gariban describes three essentials to ensure trust leaders make system working a success and thus build efficient, resilient and responsive services
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most-read integration stories of 2023
As 2023 turns into 2024, we look at the integration stories which climbed their way up the most-read list this year
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CommentGive more prescribing and referral rights to those working in the community
Government action is crucial to enhancing primary and community care integration, and to addressing structural, funding, data sharing, and training challenges to deliver a patient-centric, sustainable health service, writes Baroness Pitkeathley