All Local government articles – Page 42
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NewsSurvey: what are the top challenges facing health and wellbeing boards?
HSJ and sister title Local Government Chronicle are conducting research to discover the key issues HWBs face
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NewsNHS to keep health visitor funding until after general election
More than £650m a year of public health funding will be withheld from local authorities until after next year’s general election, it has emerged.
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BlogsThe better care fund fiasco
Taking money from hospitals and giving it to local authorities is unlikely to improve working relationships
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HSJ KnowledgeLocal government and the NHS: Finding the way to work together
NHS transformation leaders must get local politicians on side
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS Health Checks under scrutiny
The importance of reviewing the public health programme
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NewsWinterbourne View scheme an 'abject failure', minister admits
Combined health and local government drive to help people with learning disabilities move out of hospitals has been an “abject failure”, Norman Lamb has said
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Blogs
Better a poor service than no service
We’ve moved for “take it or leave it” care to “like it or lump it”
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HSJ KnowledgeWellbeing boards: Getting over the language barrier
Improve communication between CCGs and councils
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NewsHSJ bids to identify top 50 service integrators
LGC and sister title Health Service Journal unveil healthcare project
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NewsNHS England steps up work on pooling budgets
NHS England has begun detailed work on how to pool its primary care budgets with other commissioners, one of its senior leaders has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: Better care fund checks prioritise dementia and falls
Many NHS and council leaders will assess the effectiveness of the government’s £3.8bn plan to integrate health and social care with performance measures on dementia, falls and long-term conditions.
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CommentCouncils put the public health ethos into practice
A year since the transfer of public health
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NewsSummit launched to support wellbeing board members
A new health and care integration summit is to be launched by HSJ and its sister title Local Government Chronicle with the intention of offering advice and support to health and wellbeing board members.
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NewsFour in 10 areas to pool extra health and care cash
At least 57 local areas will see better care fund budgets rising, figures show
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HSJ Local
CCG plans to jointly commission children’s services with council
STRUCTURE: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group plans to jointly commission children’s services in Cambridgeshire with the local authority.
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NewsCare home assaults are 'sad fact'
A judge who specialises in analysing issues relating to vulnerable people says assaults and serious incidents will occur at care homes and psychiatric units which house mentally-ill residents.
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NewsMinisters: Involve providers in 'better care fund' talks
Norman Lamb and communities minister Brandon Lewis have jointly written to health and wellbeing board chairs calling for more involvement of providers in plans for the better care fund.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs and councils set to pool more than £5bn in 2015-16
Councils and NHS commissioners are set to share pooled budgets of more than £5bn in 2015-16 under the better care fund, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
‘Health campus model’ considered to save hospital
STRUCTURE: East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group is considering co-locating a wider array of services, including some which are not health services, at a district hospital to ensure its sustainability.