All Social care articles – Page 3
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Trust left isolated as strike nears 50 days
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: NHS England’s convenient excuse
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: New model neighbourhood
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: The migration surge helped social care – but not enough
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Trusts entering care market ‘threaten viability of existing providers’
A local authority where a foundation trust has registered to provide social care has warned the move may destabilise other organisations, and encouraged NHS providers to focus on community health services.
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Comment
Improving patient experience needn’t cost the earth
Access to care continues to be the biggest concern reported by the public to Healthwatch. Still, William Pett, head of policy, Public Affairs and Research at Healthwatch England, argues that getting the small things right could make a big difference
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Comment
NHS leaders do not have the data they need to keep patients safe
James Titcombe, Melanie Leis, and Peter Howitt delineate the major themes of a roundtable to address challenges in improving patient safety, emphasising the need for data sharing nuances, cultural shifts, optimising limited resources, prioritising workforce plans, and staff well-being
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Comment
The NHS needs to give its 'accidental managers' more support
Inadequate training for NHS managers highlights a pressing need for mandated and high-quality leadership training to enhance patient care and organisational effectiveness, writes Anthony Painter
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News
Hospital launches social care service to reduce ‘astronomical’ delayed discharges
An acute trust is launching its own social care service to reduce the ‘astronomical’ costs of delayed discharges.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Can region justify its outlying workforce numbers?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Social care staff doing NHS work ‘unfunded’
Social care staff are undertaking activities that would have previously been done by the NHS on an unfunded basis, report 70 per cent of adult social services directors.
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Comment
ICS teething troubles are the price they must pay for success
Richard Taunt says ‘grounded hope’ about integrated care systems might hold the key to their success.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Baby steps again on specialised services
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Comment
The NHS needs to share power with the communities it serves
Brian Fisher elaborates how embracing community strengthening is the key to a sustainable and inclusive NHS, shifting from merely listening to empowering communities, improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities, and creating a brighter future for all
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Comment
Stop scaling and start investing in local ideas
Social investment can make the biggest difference in helping to fund innovative, customised solutions for healthcare, writes Katy Saunders
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Comment
NHS tech needs to be about solving problems, not shiny solutions
We live in a fast-paced, digital age, and it is important that the NHS keeps up. Greater and improved use of technology can benefit the service by enabling the delivery of better quality and faster care to patients, as well as relieving pressures on leaders and their staff. Whilst there ...
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News
‘Management bandwidth’ is slowing integration, says minister
Integration is being slowed down in some areas by a lack of ‘management bandwidth’ in systems dealing with competing pressures, a minister has said.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Social care goes it alone on staffing plan
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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News
Exclusive: Government and NHS in talks over £1bn funding gap
Government is in talks with national NHS leaders over how to fill an urgent funding gap of at least £1bn this financial year, HSJ has learned, as new analysis shows all 42 local integrated care systems were behind their own plans less than halfway through 2023-24.