All Social care articles – Page 3
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HSJ InteractiveDo hospitals need to get more serious about sleep?
Making hospitals more conducive to high quality sleep might benefit patient experience and wellbeing, and could perhaps even lead to reduced length of stay
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NewsExclusive: social care waiting times revealed for first time in a decade
Older people are routinely enduring hidden waits of several months to get essential care and support, according to new figures obtained from government.
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HSJ LocalCEO admits ‘risk aversion’ clogging up hospitals
Medics and managers must overcome a system-wide “aversion” to risk after their integrated care system was identified as a national outlier for low numbers of patients discharged home, according to the ICS’s chief executive.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Why the NHS is cutting pooled budgets
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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HSJ PartnersImproving the lives of the people through place-based procurement
Stuart Watkins, health business manager at Crown Commercial Service, explains the importance of place-based procurement and offers key considerations for developing successful policies
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CommentThe future of our health service lies in the power of community
Six principles will help the NHS unlock the power of community organisations to tackle profound health inequalities, says Locality chief executive Tony Armstrong.
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HSJ InteractiveProviding mental health support to NHS staff
A recent HSJ webinar explored the worsening mental health of many working in the NHS, and how both sustained investment and a long-term strategy are needed to develop wellbeing within local systems
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NewsRevealed: The ICBs paying a third of care home bills late
Several commissioning boards have been routinely failing to pay the money they owe to care homes in a timely fashion.
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Expert BriefingNorth 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 BriefingFollowing 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 BriefingThe 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 BriefingThe 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 BriefingThe 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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NewsTrusts 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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CommentImproving 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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CommentNHS 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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CommentThe 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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NewsHospital 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 BriefingNorth 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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NewsSocial 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.