All Prevention articles – Page 3
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NewsUPDATE: Four new ministers join DHSC
Four new ministers have been appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care.
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NewsGovernment plans new integration white paper
The government will publish a white paper with further ambitions on integration and social care reform later this year, it has announced as part of a new funding settlement.
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HSJ PartnersPatient data-driven insights can help reduce health inequalities
A new approach to population health planning and collaboration in health systems is required to tackle health inequalities – and data is the key vehicle for social change, says David Sharp
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NewsDHSC hiring three £110,000 policy directors
The Department of Health and Social Care is looking for three policy directors for its new Office for Health Promotion, to be paid £110,000 or more.
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CommentThe NHS is sleepwalking into a cardiovascular catastrophe
Cardiovascular disease has received a concerning disregard during the pandemic, which will mean a looming avalanche of strokes and heart attacks over the coming months and years, warns Jules Payne
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HSJ InteractivePreventing ill health
Panellists explored what ICSs can do around prevention and early intervention
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CommentWhy has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?
The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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NewsExclusive: Thousands still being denied PPE for procedures with ‘high covid risk’
Thousands of frontline workers delivering treatments where the risk of transmitting coronavirus is heightened are still being denied personal protective equipment, according to multiple unions and professional bodies.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: End of the care home?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior integration correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: System or Commissioner Led Service Redesign Initiative
Winner West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Wessex AHSN, Somerset CCG, Kernow CCG: RESTORE2 - right care, right place, right time for care home residents RESTORE2 is a project to support staff in care and nursing homes to proactively recognise and manage physical deterioration in order to improve resident experience and ...
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NewsHancock says new ‘standalone’ body could take PHE’s remaining functions
A new public health agency could be formed to take on the health improvement and prevention functions of the soon-to-be-defunct Public Health England, the health secretary said today.
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NewsExclusive: Many public health responsibilities to return to the NHS
There is a ‘central working hypothesis’ that many of the functions of the abolished Public Health England will return to the NHS next year, according to very senior sources close to the proposed changes.
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CommentWest Midlands seeks to mainstream public health
We want people to think and talk more about wider determinants of health, upstream interventions and preventive approaches – only then will we fully embrace all the pillars of public health, write David Kidney and Lisa McNally
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NewsWidespread service suspensions will have ‘lasting impact’
The NHS has been warned of the “lasting impact” and worse outcomes likely to result from delaying cancer screening programmes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Comment
A virtual hospital model can help tackle the covid-19 pandemic
West Hertforshire Hospitals Trust has been running a fully integrated, virtual consultant delivered triaging service that can be a vital part of the armoury against covid-19, say Rama Vancheeswaran, Matthew Knight, David Evans, Michael Van der Watt, Alex Newland Smith, Charlie Oliver, Philip Kelso, Chantoy Spencer and Andrew Barlow
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CommentLeadership of our testing system needs an overhaul
Sir John Oldham argues the UK needs to get the right leadership skills in the right place for successful mass testing.
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CommentHow far will integrated health and care systems go in preventing disease?
Both STPs and ICSs are the latest attempt in a long list of national policies aimed at providing more integrated care but will they help prevent poor health asks Adam Briggs.
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NewsNational incident over coronavirus allows NHSE to command local resources
NHS bosses have declared coronavirus as a “level 4 incident” — a move which allows NHS England to take command of all NHS resources across England.
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HSJ LocalGreater Manchester must ‘deeply recognise’ its A&E problem
The need for Greater Manchester to improve its performance against the accident and emergency target needs to be “deeply recognised” — and lessons learned from the slower than expected impact of the region’s prevention work, one of its senior leaders had told HSJ.
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HSJ InteractiveDeveloping population health management is key to integration
Population health management is a true test of system working, requiring health and local authorities to come together in a different way. However, it also means shifting resource, says Andy Haynes