All Local government articles – Page 55
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NewsCouncil plans £100m loan to buy out foundation's PFI contracts
A local authority is in negotiations to lend up to £100m to a foundation trust seeking to buy out its private finance initiative contracts, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to empower GPs and local commissioners to deliver care
Community GPs and local government taking charge of care delivery is a goal that by Kent Health Commission could soon successfully realise. Paul Carter explains how it’s working.
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NewsWelsh leader calls for Cameron 'humility'
David Cameron should find the “humility” to admit his party’s proposals to reform England’s NHS are wrong, Wales’ first minister Carwyn Jones has said.
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HSJ Local
Yorkshire trust appoints new chief exec with council background
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has been appointed at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust.
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NewsReforms spell end of joint commissioning in Peterborough
A long-running agreement on joint commissioning of health and social care has come to an end because of the government’s health reforms.
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CommentCommissioning for Social Value: a vision for people, practices and communities
The Public Services Bill 2010 could help healthcare commissioning and procurement deliver wider social benefits to the community than population health, as David Maher and colleagues explain.
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HSJ KnowledgeTelehealth can be at the heart of integrated health and social care
A council plans to integrate health and social care services in their new model of care. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council executive director of adult social care and inclusion Paul Davies discusses how telehealth is fundamental to this service redesign.
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NewsGovernment risks going backwards on integration, warn MPs
Financial pressures and the government’s reforms risk the level of integration between health and social care actually diminishing, despite ministers restating their commitment to the policy, according to MPs.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve staff collaboration and delivered integrated care
Collaboration and enabled leadership helped one trust achieve better integration of services, which ended up benefitting both the patients receiving care and the staff delivering it, writes Jane Wells.
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HSJ Local
Surrey health and wellbeing board backs bill
STRUCTURE: The joint chairs of the shadow health and wellbeing board for Surrey have supported the government’s NHS reforms in a letter to the Daily Telegraph.
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Healthcare trust facing deficit considers 'wholesale' outsourcing
The trust predicting the largest deficit in the country is considering a “wholesale approach to outsourcing corporate functions”, HSJ has discovered.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: just how much will public health have?
So local authorities, it appears, won’t be getting much of a public health fund after all.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy it's vital to improve patient access to information
In an age of instant access to news and data, on the go and 24 hours a day, patient access to healthcare information and decisions remains unreliable and poorly connected. An independent council in Northern Ireland is trying to change this, as Maeve Hully explains.
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NewsDoubts cast over size of topline public health budgets
Warnings have already been sounded that the £2.2bn funding due to be ringfenced for councils to spend on public health will be insufficient for them to achieve better results than primary care trusts.
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NewsGovernment announces £5.2bn public health spend
The government has announced £5.2bn will be spent on public health next year, and published its first Public Health Outcomes Framework.
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Comment'Local healthcare cannot be delivered by giant commissioning bodies'
The key to healthcare delivery models lies within natural communities – not in bloated commissioning organisations, says Charles Alessi.
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HSJ KnowledgeDeveloping a health and local government service integration model
Could one trust’s health and local government service integration be a model for the rest of the country to follow? Dr Chris Clayton reports on the successful pilot at Blackburn with Darwen PCT.
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NewsNo 'structural merger' of health and social care, MPs told
There will be no government drive to merge health and social care organisations across the country, health minister Paul Burstow has told MPs.
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NewsBiggest health and social care provider given the 'green light'
Plans for the biggest joint provider of health and social care in England have been approved by NHS Midlands and East, HSJ has been told.
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NewsDH plans to allow councils to take on public health functions early
The Department of Health is considering “arrangements” that will allow councils to take over the management of public health functions before the legal transition of responsibility in 2013.