All Policy and regulation articles – Page 12
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CommentNHS reform: 'how hard can it be?'
Three blokes in a pub are fixing the NHS. Julian Patterson is taking notes in the corner with a pint of mild
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CommentGetting integration to work: is it time to stop throwing policy at the problem?
Integration fails to succeed because working cultures in the NHS and social care haven’t changed to support collaboration, say Helen Buckingham and Sarah Reed.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Ministers hold ICSs’ feet to the fire
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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CommentJust discharging more patients from hospital will not fix the NHS’s problems
Karen Middleton writes in response to the government’s announcement that it will buy beds in care homes
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NewsTrusts given 20 days to book in all 78-week waiters
Trusts must book appointments for all patients who have been waiting longer than 78 weeks by the end of this month under new orders sent out today by NHS England.
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NewsConfusion over changes to CQC inspections signalled by Barclay
The Care Quality Commission is to ‘adjust’ its ‘regulatory activity for the rest of winter’ in an effort to help ‘increase capacity in both adult social care and the NHS’.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Discharge delays trigger ministerial phone calls
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsRevealed: The targets the NHS no longer has to meet
NHS England has shelved priorities on long covid and diversity and inclusion – as well as a wide range of other areas – in its latest slimmed down operational planning guidance, HSJ analysis shows.
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CommentOne million managers: some predictions for 2023
Here are the highlights for 2023, by Jon Restell, CEO of Managers in Partnership
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Comment'Merry Christmas, you're fired'
The NHS Blithering board meets to celebrate another 12 months of integrated progress and to set out overarching ambitions for a system-wide 2023. Julian Patterson circulates the minutes
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NewsCQC delays ‘targeted’ inspection overhaul after staff protest
The Care Quality Commission has delayed rolling out its new approach to inspections by almost a year, following concern from its staff and a need to give ‘providers time to prepare’.
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HSJ LocalTrust drops from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’
A teaching hospital that was lauded for its culture and championed by ministers has been downgraded from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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CommentTop holiday gift ideas for NHS leaders
It’s the thought that counts, but if you can’t be bothered to give present buying any, here’s a list of Christmas gift ideas for the special measures person in your life. Selected by Julian Patterson
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NewsICSs risk becoming ‘rebadged CCGs’ warns Hewitt
Integrated care systems could become ‘rebadged clinical commissioning groups’ or ‘another layer of performance management’, former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Freedom, or nothing left to lose
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsICS has ‘strained and challenging’ relationships, review finds
Relationships between commissioners, providers and the local authority in a troubled integrated care system are ‘strained and challenging’, according to an external review it commissioned.
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NewsNeighbouring trusts placed in ‘special measures’
NHS England has moved two Devon trusts into its successor for the special measures regime, meaning all of the county’s acute trusts are now in the bottom tier of the oversight framework.
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NewsRevealed: Members of government’s new ‘elective taskforce’
Ministers have set up a new taskforce to ‘focus on how the NHS can [better] utilise independent sector to cut the backlog’ and boost overall elective activity, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.
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CommentCan integrated care systems survive their birth?
Nicholas Timmins draws conclusions from the recent interviews held by King’s Fund, highlighting concerns of leading ICS chairs as well as their optimism on the progress that can be made
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NewsGovernment reveals pension changes but no change to tax allowances
No direct changes to either annual or lifetime allowance have been revealed in the government’s announcement on pension proposals today, despite these issues having previously been blamed for forcing clinicians to reduce hours or leave the health service.