All Service redesign articles – Page 66
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting a grip on workforce costs
NHS trusts are being asked to drive down workforce costs against a backdrop of staff shortages and budgetary pressures
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CommentCapacity, culture and collaboration: a formula for delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View
There are many opinions on why the NHS Five Year Forward View is being held back. But there is a way forward, says Anne Crofts
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NewsExclusive: CCGs should be 'brought together', says King’s Fund
King’s Fund says commissioning must be done across bigger areas This would enable provider-led “systems of care” NHS England expected to require joint planning across health economies NHS commissioning must be carried out on footprints bigger than current clinical commissioning groups, the King’s Fund has recommended.
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NewsRollout of shared care records can cut DTOCs, commission says
Commission calls for the DH to assess the cost of national living wage for social care sector There is an “urgent need” for delayed transfer definitions for mental health Payment mechanisms should be “coordinated” and block contract payments should be dropped Delayed transfers of care can be avoided ...
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HSJ LocalGreater Manchester reconfiguration to face judicial review
STRUCTURE: The controversial shake-up of emergency services in Greater Manchester will be subject to a judicial review, after the High Court agreed to hear a legal challenge from a group of doctors.
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HSJ KnowledgeEasy does it: why slow but sure is the key to redesigning patient pathways
Redesigning patient pathways is a process that must be handled with care but the results are worth the trouble
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HSJ LocalCCG chair fears maternity closure may be permanent
CCG chair has “very significant concern” suspension of maternity services at Alexandra Hospital could become permanent Jonathan Wells has written to arm’s length bodies requesting “external support” to reverse closure Removal of inpatient maternity services from Alexandra Hospital a key component of provider’s reconfiguration plans STRUCTURE: A clinical ...
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HSJ Local‘Super practice’ vanguard appointed to run A&E ‘front door’
PRIMARY CARE: The primary care ‘super practice’ and vanguard site Lakeside Healthcare has begun triaging ambulatory patients who arrive at Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency department.
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CommentWhy recovery in mental health is so important
Helping people with serious mental health problems back to leading normal lives is possible and crucial, says Lisa Rodrigues
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy the NHS must replicate retail
The health service has the greatest purchasing power in the UK
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HSJ LocalCalderstones chief: brand was tarnished but we're not like Winterbourne View
INTERVIEW: The Calderstones Hospital ‘brand’ was so damaged that its closure became inevitable, its chief executive has conceded.
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NewsBennett calls for freeze of foundation trust pipeline
The outgoing chief executive of the foundation trust regulator has called for a suspension of the FT pipeline.
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HSJ LocalNew provider federation to dilute trusts’ veto over Manchester decisions
Trust chiefs in Greater Manchester are set to create a ‘federation’ of NHS providers, as they aim to maximise opportunities for sharing services across the region.
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NewsHeart surgery ‘anticipated’ to be axed from at least one northern hospital
Health service leaders in the north have suggested that congenital heart surgery will be withdrawn from at least one hospital in the region.
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LeaderJulie Moore will need years, not months, to turn Heart of England around
She needs time to make real changes
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NewsExclusive: ‘Flawed’ perceptions of GPs impact recruitment, warns HEE
Junior doctors and medical students are being put off training as GPs because of ‘fundamental flaws’ in how the profession is perceived, the chief executive of Health Education England has told HSJ.
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NewsMapped: Every NHS England vanguard project
HSJ has mapped all 50 vanguards that will introduce new care models across the country. Explore the map to see what changes each vanguard intends to make.
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HSJ LocalCommunity hospitals face closure under Surrey CCG proposals
STRUCTURE: A review of five community hospitals by Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group has set out four options for future community care, which include the closure of two hospitals.
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NewsMapped: Acute care vanguards revealed
Thirteen bids have been chosen to take forward NHS England’s vanguard for future models of acute care.