All Social care articles – Page 2
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CommentThe government needs to explain to the public how care is going to change
The government’s forthcoming 10-Year Health Plan aims to address pressing challenges in health and care, focusing on recovery and reform. Key to its success will be empowering integrated care systems to lead change, aligning policy across sectors, and engaging the public in designing services, writes Annie Bliss
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NewsCare home companies complain NHS is freezing them out
Two of the UK’s largest care providers have said the NHS has commissioned just a fraction of the “winter pressures” beds from them than in previous years, despite the NHS facing similar levels of seasonal delays.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Named and shamed
This week, the podcast looks at the fallout from a lively NHS Providers conference.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What we want from the 10-year plan
A leading trust CEO, ICS leader and policy guru join the HSJ podcast to tell us what’s needed from the government’s 10-year health plan.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: What the ‘left shift’ means for hospitals
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover is joined by the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers to talk money, quality and the CQC
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Winter ‘panic buying’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at what no money for winter means for the NHS, and how real a bold new integration scheme is.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The magic administrator
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues look at whether the NHS’s whole safety, safe-staffing and quality system is getting overhauled, plus was it one simple trick that slashed waiting times at a trust?
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CommentA sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Joe McManners
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CommentReforming NICE would empower the drive to address health inequalities
Keith Syrett and Peter Littlejohns discuss NICE’s evolution, highlighting its cost-effectiveness focus, stakeholder balance, and role in healthcare prioritisation
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HSJ LocalFormer NHSE director to chair cash-strapped ICB
A former NHS England director who has also led adult social care for a council has been appointed chair of an integrated care board.
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NewsTop trust stalls expansion of its pioneering social care service
A trust which had planned a major expansion of its pioneering domiciliary adult social care service has seen progress stall due to recruitment challenges.
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NewsExclusive: 20,000 patients a year ‘warehoused’ in community beds after hospital discharge
More than 20,000 patients each year are being left to languish in care homes and community beds after discharge from hospital without any rehab support according to new data obtained by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Getting past the ‘bitter animosity’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsNHS and social care ‘tripping over each other’ on staffing
The NHS should help social care recruit and retain nurses, including with better pay and conditions, particularly for new service models where care staff take on more health tasks.
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NewsFormer minister joins Streeting’s team
Two new health and social care ministers, who previously held roles in the shadow team, have been announced by the new government.
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Expert BriefingLabour would shackle the service to a target NHSE wanted to ditch
After Wes Streeting committed a Labour government to hitting the four-hour A&E target within a first term in office, the key question NHS leaders will want answering is “how?”, writes James Illman in this week’s Recovery Watch.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2024: Connecting Health and Social Care through Digital
WINNER North of England Care System Support: OPTICA - Optimising Patient Flow and Hospital Discharge Processes
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NewsRegulator chief steps down due to ill health
Andrea Sutcliffe is stepping down from her role as chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council due to ill health, the watchdog has announced.
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News£500m cut to local integration funds revealed
Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021–22.
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NewsNHS overly protective of its workforce, says social services leader
The new president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has accused the NHS of wanting to “protect its workforce” at the cost of developing a more effective health and care system.