All QIPP articles – Page 22
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HSJ Knowledge'Care in the home' scheme helping reduce length of stay and hospital admissions
A third sector voluntary scheme helps service users return home from hospital sooner and resume their daily activities - and it even helps to avoid admissions in the first place, says Emma Dent.
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HSJ Local
Commissioning change 'delaying QIPP' at Newcastle FT
FINANCE: Quality, improvement, productivity and prevention (QIPP) planning around Newcastle is being further delayed by reforms to the local commissioning landscape, a foundation trust is reporting.
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HSJ Knowledge'Will community services boil down to "any willing price"?'
At a recent senior company team meeting, I was discussing the changes envisaged in the Health and Social Care Bill and raised the notion about writing this article and calling it “any willing price”.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs acute trust seeks more efficiency plans to remain ‘viable’
FINANCE: University Hospital of North Staffordshire is likely to need more cost cutting plans in order to remain “financially viable” next year.
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HSJ Local
Luton and Dunstable FT looks at radical workforce savings
WORKFORCE: Luton and Dunstable Hospital Foundation Trust is looking at measures such as reducing workers’ annual leave and sick pay entitlement to meet savings targets.
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NewsPCTs fail to make half of savings targets
Primary care trusts are predicting they will miss their savings targets by up to 56 per cent this year, analysis by HSJ has found.
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NewsConsortia to be authorised in stages, Sir David tells HSJ
Commissioning consortia could be authorised in degrees and should not “make” their own commissioning support, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told HSJ in a wide-ranging interview.
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HSJ Local
NHS Blackpool savings plan slips another £1m behind in one month
FINANCE: The primary care trust fell another £1,060,831 behind on its savings plan between November and December.
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NewsAnti-trespass laws to be used to shift bed blocking patients
Hospitals in north Merseyside are planning to use the anti-trespass powers used to ban “hoodies” from shopping centres to shift patients who are blocking beds.
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NewsConsortia must involve non GPs - Zollinger-Read
One of England’s most senior GP commissioning leads is calling for consortia to recognise the potential contributions of other health professionals.
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HSJ Local
Mid Essex PCT 'slips' on QIPP plan
FINANCE: Mid Essex PCT’s progress on its QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) plan has slipped, meaning it could miss its year-end target by £2.7m.
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HSJ Local
GPs appointed to clinical cabinet to find more savings at Oxleas Foundation Trust
FINANCE: A primary care trust has appointed two GPs to try and top the £1m of savings negotiated with the mental health trust in 2010-11.
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NewsPCT overspending sparks fresh efficiency fears
Twenty-five primary care trusts have overspent their 2010-11 budgets by a total of £145m so far this financial year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeEnd of life care: full interaction at the end of life
End of life care must remain multidisciplinary despite financial constraints, argues Rachael Addicott
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NewsDepartment of Health: 'Staff may lose focus on patients during reforms'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that Andrew Lansley’s sweeping NHS reorganisation risks distracting staff from their £20bn savings target, and from patient care.
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Comment'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'
There are too many hospitals swallowing up too much money for too little return. Which is fine until you try to close or downsize one, and all hell breaks loose.
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NewsInnovation Expo to profile QIPP programme
Sir David Nicholson and health minister Earl Howe are spearheading the Department of Health’s support for the 2011 Healthcare Innovation Expo, which takes place in London’s Docklands on 9-10 March.
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Leader‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery
As the NHS drowns in reform, the danger of distraction grows.
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HSJ KnowledgeVoluntary sector speaks up on QIPP
Charities are getting more bullish about saying how they can deliver care and savings in health, says Emma Dent
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Leader'Now with 25pc more reason to believe'
“Hope is a key differentiator between those NHS organisations that succeed and those that don’t,” says the NHS Institute’s Helen Bevan. She adds, “the driving force of hope is belief” - belief that things can be improved.