All Integrated care articles – Page 91
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CommentTransforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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HSJ KnowledgeFast-forward to quicker discharge
Trusts should look to processes closer the home to reduce delayed discharge
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS must be smart in how it buys technology
A single electronic system is essential to providing true value
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HSJ Local
Single Torbay takeover partner shortlisted
STRUCTURE: Only one organisation has been shortlisted to take over Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust, board papers reveal.
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Blogs
A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
CCGs have the opportunity to reform patterns of service provision and ways of working.A decade of austerity could spur on some long overdue changes to our health and care system..
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NewsHunt: I'm open to NHS or private sector solutions
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ it is “not my job to hold a candle” for either NHS or private sector providers when deciding what is best for patients.
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NewsInformation governance blamed for holding up QIPP integration
A “computer says no” attitude to information governance is hampering attempts to draw up a “year of care tariff” by stopping trusts sharing costings data, HSJ has been told.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 6 December 2012
Support for Jeremy Hunt’s “technology revolution”, and an assertion that NHS providers are better placed than independent ones to provide integrated secure services
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NewsExclusive: 'Rapid reduction' in hospital care planned following Winterbourne View
The treatment of all people with learning disabilities or autism receiving inpatient care is to be reviewed, ahead of a drive to rapidly reduce hospital placements and increase community provision.
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CommentHow to make integration work
Achieving the health secretary’s “holy grail” of integrated care requires big changes
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HSJ KnowledgeThe principles behind integrated care for older people
How South Warwickshire FT transformed older people’s services
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HSJ Local
Integration plans for Kent community services
STRUCTURE: Kent Community Health Trust and Kent County Council have unveiled proposals to integrate health and social care services.
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NewsHunt defends return of £3bn to Treasury
Jeremy Hunt has defended the return of nearly £3bn Department of Health funding to the Treasury in the past two years.
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BlogsDeveloping integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
There is not one best way to develop integrated care. Politicians, NHS leaders and frontline staff should join together to test different approaches, writes the King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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NewsLamb plans to support new wave of integrated care 'experiments'
Ministers are planning to support a series of large-scale, locally led “experiments” in integrated care that could enable commissioners to move away from the payment by results tariff system.
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LeaderA turning point in health policy?
Will we remember November 2012 as the month health policy began to forge a different path?
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News'Prime contractors' could run pathways for decade
Commissioners could be freed to award work to a “prime contractor” over five to 10 years from 2014-15, the Department of Health has indicated.
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NewsExclusive: Lamb signals new wave of integration experiments
Ministers are planning to support a series of large-scale integrated care “experiments”, which could result in a movement away from payment by results, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Integrated CCG sidesteps government's councillor ban
North East Lincolnshire CCG has developed a novel governance structure including representation from councillors, so it can take on an adult social care budget.
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SupplementsDrug action - an HSJ supplement on primary care
From recruitment challenges to a greater role for pharmacies, our supplement probes the latest developments in primary care