All Reconfiguration articles – Page 53
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Comment'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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HSJ Local
Maternity consultation nears end in east Kent
STRUCTURE: A “last call” for the public to have their say on the future of maternity services has been issued by the NHS Kent and Medway PCT cluster.
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Blogs
Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
Candace Imison asks whether potentially merging trusts’ evidence will meet the Competition and Cooperation panel’s exacting review standards, and what the challenge means for the 20 currently unviable trusts in the FT status pipeline.
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HSJ Local
DH backs Bristol pathology plans
COMMERCIAL: An advisory panel chaired by the Department of Health’s national director for pathology has backed plans for a reconfiguration of pathology services in the Bristol area.
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News
CCP rules against largest acute merger plan in the country
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has said plans to create the biggest single trust in the NHS would break competition rules.
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NewsMergers will not make unviable trusts sustainable, warn MPs
The takeover or merger of troubled trusts in order for them to achieve foundation status “is not a convincing solution” that will ensure their future sustainability, according to MPs.
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CommentAll eyes on London's billion-pound merger after SHA sign off
By the time you read this, NHS London will almost certainly have signed off the Barts/Whipps Cross/Newham merger.
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HSJ Local
New mental health service in Hastings and Rother
STRUCTURE: A new hub structure for delivering mental health services across Hastings and Rother was launched on 12 December.
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HSJ Local
Neuro-rehab service plan for west Surrey
STRUCTURE: NHS Surrey and Surrey Community Health have announced joint plans to improve care for patients who need neuro-rehabilitation services in west Surrey.
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HSJ Local
Scarborough merger decisions 'will be taken in public'
STRUCTURE: Decisions on the dissolution of Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care Trust will be taken in public, the chief executive has said.
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HSJ Local
Southern Health values future opportunities at £90m
FINANCE: Southern Health’s “opportunity pipeline” beyond 2011-12 is worth around £90m in total, with six projects in progress and five on hold.
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Comment'Specialised commissioning gives the NHS Commissioning Board a chance to deliver'
The NHS Commissioning Board will have control over specialised commissioning from April 2013. It is a very real opportunity to bring about dramatic improvements in clinical quality, and speed up the adoption of innovation across the NHS, says John Murray.
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HSJ Local
NHS London to sign off Barts merger on Tuesday
STRUCTURE: The strategic health authority NHS London will consider the full business case for the merger of Barts and the London, Whipps Cross and Newham University hospitals at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday.
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HSJ Local
Altrincham Hospital rebuild set to be delayed until November 2012
STRUCTURE: The start of work to rebuild the trust’s Altrincham General Hospital is set to be pushed back a year, to November 2012, a revised timeline for the project shows.
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HSJ Local
£5.4m bailout for Trafford dependant on ‘accountability agreement’
FINANCE: Trafford Healthcare Trust would need to conclude an “accountability agreement” with its commissioners to secure a further £5.4m tranche of “transitional” funding, its last board meeting was told.
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NewsExclusive: London's paediatric emergency services not 'safe or sustainable'
London has too few paediatric doctors to staff paediatric emergency services to safe levels and “an unsustainable ratio” of trainees to consultants in the departments, an internal document obtained by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
Ridgeway to be taken over by non-neighbouring FT
PERFORMANCE: The struggling Ridgeway Partnership in Oxfordshire is set to become part of a larger foundation trust spanning two separate geographical areas, with all the bidders shortlisted to take it over based outside the county.
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NewsOperating framework piles pressure on hospital sector
The NHS’s financial plans for 2012-13 will further concentrate pressure on acute providers and could force a wave of hasty mergers, experts have warned.
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NewsDH exerts pressure to merge on smaller CCGs
Smaller clinical commissioning groups are coming under increasing pressure to merge after the Department of Health announced a tight administrative allowance and a requirement for them to match local authority boundaries “as far as possible”.
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HSJ KnowledgeLearning legal lessons from the transforming community services scheme
Transforming community services was characterised by a transitional approach that is relatively new in the context of NHS organisations. However, it certainly won’t be the last as the health reforms continue, writes Hempsons associate Faisal Dhalla.