All Local government articles – Page 34
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CommentNew care models: To keep up, the NHS must shift focus in three ways
As changes take place locally
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News'Other bodies' could take powers from failing CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups failing for more than a year could have their responsibilities removed and handed to other organisations, new guidance indicates.
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HSJ LocalLincolnshire health bodies form system-wide ‘recovery programme’
PERFORMANCE: Organisations across Lincolnshire are to form a group to improve the region’s care quality, rescue its financial position and develop a county-wide workforce plan.
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NewsCQC to assess whole health systems
The Care Quality Commission is to pilot assessing whole health systems as part of a move towards a more place based approach to regulation.
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HSJ LocalGloucestershire seeks control of health budget in devolution deal
Control of health and social care budgets and retention of 100% business rates growth proposed
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NewsUpdated: DH proposes across the board public health cut
Local authorities look set to face a flat 6.2 per cent cut to their 2015-16 public health budgets under plans put out for consultation by the Department of Health this morning.
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The NHS should co-finance its future, not go it alone
Mutual benefits of local collaboration
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NewsDevolution amendment could halt most ambitious local health proposals
Some of local government’s more ambitious proposals for the devolution of responsibility over health could be blown off course by an amendment to the devolution bill passed in the Lords.
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NewsCouncils 'running out of time' to prepare for public health cuts
Councils are ‘running out of time’ to make the £200m of in-year cuts to public health budgets announced by the chancellor last month, HSJ’s sister title Local Government Chronicle has been told.
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NewsLondon's devolution demands revealed
Proposals to redesign London’s £93bn public services through wide ranging devolution from central government have been agreed by borough leaders and the city’s mayor.
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NewsCrisp: Mental health beds shortage actually a discharge crisis
A perceived crisis in the availability of mental health beds is actually caused by delayed patient discharges, according to an inquiry chaired by Lord Crisp.
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NewsLords approve devolution bill 'wrecking' amendment
The government has suffered a blow to its insistence on places adopting directly elected mayors in return for substantial devolution deals.
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CommentBudget: If pay restraint doesn't hold, the £22bn efficiency savings will be tough
The immediate future looks grim
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NewsExclusive: Devolved authorities could 'share' NHS functions
Combined authorities could ‘jointly’ hold NHS powers, instead of them being removed from government or health service bodies entirely, under government devolution plans, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExercise 'extreme' caution on integration deals, councils told
Councils should exercise “extreme” caution before agreeing to ambitious health and social care integration deals, the chief executive of the Local Government Association has warned.
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NewsStevens sets out NHS devolution 'tests'
Councils hoping to gain Greater Manchester style devolved powers over health and social care must convince NHS England that the benefits of the move would go beyond integration of the two services, the body’s chief executive has said.
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NewsNHS England tells regions to create urgent care networks
NHS England has said urgent and emergency care networks should be set up across the country to set and monitor standards of care and ‘designate urgent care facilities’.