All Social care articles – Page 100
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Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'
In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about
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Unjust social care funding
'One in four people over the age of 85 in Oxfordshire are in receipt of a high cost package of care'
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Care UK chief urges swift ISTC take-up
Chief executive Mike Parish sounds a cautionary note that government must move quickly to ensure a local ownership care system takes route
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HSJ Knowledge
How to commission high quality, low cost health care
The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...
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Practitioner view: Measuring outcomes in mental health and social care
Measuring outcomes is a direct way to improve the quality and accountability of services. It can help us to improve our understanding of the impact of services on people's lives. Those who use services and carers need reassurance that treatments and care provided are producing results for them as individuals, ...
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Information Centre prepares to expand role
The role of the Information Centre for health and social care in the NHS is set to be stepped up, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health networks for children and young people
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has released a report calling for health services for children and young people to be delivered within networks of care.
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HSJ Knowledge
How overview and scrutiny committees can help, or hinder, NHS service redesign
Nick Edwards reports on a survey of OSC chairs about their attitudes towards NHS managers
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Michael White: parliamentary deadlock
'Parliament is deadlocked on serious issues that may end up in a 'ping pong' test of wills'
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.
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HSJ Knowledge
International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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Targeting health - a duty of well-being
Councils can make the most of their powers to build healthy communities, by making sure local shops sell affordable and accessible healthy food, says Saba Salman
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Minister: end third sector 'mutual loathing'
Commissioners have been urged not to hold third sector health services at 'arm's length'.
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Pilots lead way in new era of high-tech 'telecare' at home
Three primary care trusts will be chosen next month to deliver hardware worth thousands of pounds to the homes of patients with long-term conditions, according to Department of Health head of primary care Gary Belfield.
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No fence for LINks
Funding for local involvement networks will not be ringfenced, the government has announced. In its response to consultation to its July proposal to establish the networks, the Department of Health said that funding to local authorities would be 'allocated as a targeted but not ringfenced grant'.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS and local government: friends and relations
HSJ 'Managers make the difference' campaign: HSJ's campaign charter stresses the responsibility and capacity of NHS managers to engage stakeholders outside the NHS. To mark the launch of an exclusive briefing paper, Colleen Shannon looks at the complex relationship with local government and MPs
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Work together to lessen the gap
Local government can play a key role in improving the quality of people's lives. Achieving this requires stronger partnerships at local level and aligning incentives for health inequalities
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Old is not ill
With more and more people living longer, the health service and its partners must address some communities' low expectations on quality of life, says Claire Laurent
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HSJ Knowledge
Power of two
A new bill will oblige councils and primary care trusts to work together. In a joint feature with Local Government Chronicle, Kaye McIntosh asks how it will work in practice