All Long-term conditions articles – Page 10
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NewsWatchdog threatens 13 CCGs with legal action over 'discrimination'
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to 13 clinical commissioning groups threatening legal action over “discriminatory” funding policies for people with serious long term health conditions.
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HSJ LocalGPs block pilot of new Babylon service
A clinical commissioning group has dropped a plan to pilot an asthma service with the controversial online primary care company Babylon Health, after opposition from its GPs.
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NewsRevealed: 'Ludicrous' CCG variation for care at home
There is dramatic variation across England in the rate of people with serious long-term conditions being approved to receive NHS-funded care at home.
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NewsMore seriously ill people turned down for NHS home care funding
Fewer people with serious long-term conditions are receiving NHS-funded care at home, with massive countrywide variation revealed.
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CommentSplitting up general practice services won't always work
Fragmentation of general practice services will jeopardise the value that it delivers to patients and the NHS, notes Rebecca Rosen
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NewsNHS England given deadline to explain how cuts will not risk patient safety
NHS England has been given three months to explain how it will make large savings from a specialist fund for people with long term health conditions without putting “patient safety at risk”.
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NewsSignificant savings from mental and physical health integration pioneers
Providing talking therapies to patients with long term conditions saved nearly £200,000 for physical health services in one trailblazing site, data shared exclusively with HSJ shows.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: CCG resists Virgin Care demands for more money
Virgin Care has demanded more money for a controversial prime provider contract it signed with commissioners in Staffordshire last year, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalCharity fears national precedent if CCG axes free transport services
A charity has warned a dangerous precedent may be set if a clinical commissioning group enforces its decision to stop funding non-emergency patient transport to people who rely on “life sustaining” treatment.
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NewsCircle reduces losses by more than £3m
Private provider Circle has reduced its losses year on year by more than £3m, documents lodged with Companies House reveal.
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CommentIs connected care the future for the NHS?
Connected care represents a real and very present solution for some of the challenges the NHS faces, new research claims
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CommentCommunity hospitals: a traditional solution to help today’s NHS?
With ease of access and a sense of homeliness, there is potential for community hospitals to be better integrated into the healthcare system. By Emma Pitchforth, Edwin van Teijlingen and Ellen Nolte
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CommentWhy not a psychiatrist as NHS England medical director?
A case for appointing a psychiatrist as the next NHS England medical director
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Circle signs trust's wish list to mitigate impact of new contract
Circle signs agreement to reduce financial impact on trust which lost contract Includes termination clause if planned MSK activity levels at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust fall Trust will deliver care from five community hubs Circle Health has agreed to a set of actions designed to reduce the financial ...
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NewsThousands of disabled people forced to wait months for wheelchairs
Between October and December, 21 per cent of children and 15 per cent of adults waited more than 19 weeks for wheelchairs to be delivered Waiting times of nine weeks-plus for wheelchair prescription and then delivery Longest waits for those with high or specialist needs for prescriptions and delivery ...
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HSJ KnowledgeGet the support to self-manage with specialist nurses
The support of a specialist nurse can equip IBD patients to better manage their condition, thereby reducing dependency on hospital services
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NewsHSJ Value in Healthcare Awards shortlist revealed
The organisations in the running to win one of the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017 at have been revealed.
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HSJ LocalSuccessful scheme to keep high risk patients out of hospital extended
CCG hopes to expand project to reduce high risk patients’ need to go to hospital across STP area Vale of York CCG running a trial with Swedish firm Health Navigator to provide “proactive health coaching” to most at risk patients Two year, £600,000 contract is expected to save £1.4m ...
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NewsNHS England loses landmark drug appeal
Court of Appeal upholds judgment that NHS England has power to commission PrEP If NHS England commissions drug it could result in other treatments earmarked for funding not being commissioned Judge criticises Lansley reforms for creating “bureacratic squabbles” between NHS and local government on funding responsibilitie NHS England ...
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NewsReforms after Winterbourne View scandal hit by NHS funding inertia
The NHS’s failure to sufficiently fund the care costs of people with learning disabilities who are being transferred from long term health service placements has resulted in major overspends for many councils.