All Local government articles – Page 43
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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
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NewsMinister backs commissioning-only care role for councils
Care services minister Norman Lamb has voiced his support for a proposal to prevent councils from directly providing adult care services.
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CommentPooling funding is the only way forward
We are at a critical time for health and social care
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LeaderIt is time to bring social care spending in from the cold
Remove the artificial barriers between health and social care
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NewsRoyal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese.
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CommentNew year's resolution: Tackle the UK's exercise crisis
Physical inactivity is a dangerous public health issue
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NewsResearch reveals public health directors' status
Six in 10 top-tier councils have a director of public health who reports directly to the chief executive, according to research by the Faculty of Public Health.
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NewsClash over allocation of £3.8bn integration fund
Department for Communities and Local Government officials are battling for a £3.8bn health and social care fund to be weighted more heavily towards deprived areas, in order to address criticisms that cuts have hit these places hardest, HSJ sister title LGC has reported.