All Service redesign articles – Page 43
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How best to support patients at home to ease the burden on the NHS?
People with long-term conditions often prefer home care. Yet inadequate support means they often end up in hospital, at a cost to the NHS. Our expert panellists discussed how this problem can be addressed. By Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How telehealth can help with home care
Telemonitoring is providing a new way of caring for long-term patients while making more efficient use of NHS resources
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Hunt refers controversial maternity shake up to independent experts
Jeremy Hunt has referred the decision on controversial maternity reconfiguration plans in a troubled health economy to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalReasons for referring controversial hospital closure to Hunt revealed
An acute trust has been accused by councillors of “inadequate” consultation over controversial plans involving the closure of an emergency department and a new £298m private finance initiative hospital.
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NewsExclusive: Merger talks to create largest STP in the country
Health leaders are in discussions over merging three northern sustainability and transformation partnerships to create the largest in the country, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: STPs' touching optimism
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsVanguard GP provider expands into fifth STP patch
One of the largest scale GP providers in England has expanded in to a fifth sustainability and transformation partnership footprint.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital seeks 'joyful' merger with teaching trust
Bedford Hospital Trust is seeking a formal merger with Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsControversial heart surgery closure plans could be ready in weeks
Controversial recommendations over the national reconfiguration of congenital heart disease services could be submitted to NHS England in three weeks, ending years of uncertainty.
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HSJ LocalHospital downgrade faces legal challenge
A new legal hearing has been granted into the proposed downgrade of an Oxfordshire hospital.
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HSJ LocalCCG may be charged VAT on national vanguard funds
Commissioners leading a vanguard site may have to pay VAT charges on transformation funding from NHS England because their lead provider is a GP federation.
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CommentThe Better Care Fund is now part of the problem. We need a better solution
The removal of the Better Care Fund’s ‘temporary sticking plaster’ may be painful, but it forces us to think differently, writes Richard Humphries
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust raises concerns over tie up with smaller hospitals
Concerns have been raised by a teaching trust that consolidating its back office with two smaller local trusts may not deliver direct savings for the larger provider, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How can industry play a part in boosting patient safety?
HSJ’s latest event asked panellists how the NHS’s industry partners might contribute to improving the service’s safety culture. Report by Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: engaging staff in the patient safety mission
A culture of ownership – as well as engagement from the start – were two of the key factors cited by HSJ roundtable panellists for success, writes Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: the two-way flow that makes things happen
Industry and the health service must communicate if patient safety initiatives are to work, writes Alison Moore
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NewsHow to cut the cost of diabetes: an in-depth guide
Read HSJ’s digital guide on improving compliance by patients and providing services that better serve their needs, in association with Roche Diabetes Care
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CommentHunt: We will target medication errors next in the drive for patient safety
In an exclusive comment piece for HSJ, health secretary Jeremy Hunt announces an initiative that will aim to change culture as well as systems
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CommentSuccessful new care models will need significant management support
Whatever you call them, new care models all face similar tough challenges. So how likely are they to succeed?
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NewsExclusive: Flagship primary care hubs lack funds
Areas developing a “scale” primary care model, previously praised by Simon Stevens, lack the resources to fully evaluate their models and have yet to work out how they will meet desired outcomes, new research has found.