All Local government articles – Page 43
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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.
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NewsNICE: community centres best placed to tackle health inequalities
Councils can do more to encourage older people to attend NHS health checks as part of their new public health role, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeCan councils have a role in commissioning support?
CCGs will soon expect real choice in the support market
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HSJ KnowledgeThe impact of the better care fund on CCGs explained
Diverting billions into integrated care has huge implications
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NewsBid to update alcohol licence rules
Councils should be able to curb pub and off licence opening hours in a bid to cut costs and ease the pressures of alcohol-related admissions on hospitals, it has been claimed.
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NewsMinisters: better care fund cash will be spent on health
Health and local government ministers have insisted better care fund cash will not be diverted by councils into non-health projects.
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NewsMPs back wellbeing boards to be 'system leaders'
The Commons health committee has called for health and wellbeing boards to be given a greater role in spearheading integration between health and social care to ensure the sectors make urgently required savings.
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NewsExclusive: Cash penalties axed for care fund failure
The Department of Health has scrapped plans to withhold money from areas that fail to deliver performance improvements through joint commissioning with local authorities.
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HSJ KnowledgeA lawyer's view of health and social care integration
How to ensure smooth care coordination
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NewsExclusive: Councils boost care fund pools
Several councils are planning to pool their entire adult care budget with the NHS in one of the biggest boosts to the integration of care between the two sectors to date, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeA multitalented approach to delivering community care
All staff can become holistic practitioners
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NewsCouncils row with DH over deferred care bill
The Local Government Association has claimed a key part of the government’s social care reforms could cost councils five times more than estimated, triggering a row with the Department of Health.
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HSJ LocalCouncil takes back mental health service
Norfolk County Council is to take its social care service for working age adults with mental health problems back under its direct control after shortcomings emerged in the service which was run by a mental health trust.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS is bucking the low morale trend
NHS staff have more pride in their job than other public sector workers