All Social care articles – Page 47
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HSJ LocalSingle board to share risk across Cambridgeshire health economy
STRUCTURE: Providers and commissioners across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have created a joint board for strategic planning which they hope will ultimately share financial risk across the health economy.
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CommentThe guidance you can swear by for the 'F' word frailty
A guide for health and social care workers to identify frailty
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HSJ PartnersCare integration: The vision is clear but the road is rocky
There are challenges to be overcome to achieve the forward view
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NewsCampaign: HSJ wants your views on how to achieve inclusive NHS change
HSJ, in association with NHS Improving Quality, launches a campaign to help the NHS achieve transformational change.
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HSJ Partners
New care model gives patients 24/7 access to end of life care
Commissioning end of life care services
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NewsCCGs must set targets for reducing health inequalities
Clinical commissioning groups will have to set targets for reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for health and wellbeing, under the 2015-16 planning guidance.
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NewsEmergency care demand for older people predicted to rise
Emergency admissions among older people are likely to keep rising during the next five years, a Department of Health funded study has found. This is despite ministers’ claims that the better care fund will lead to a reduction in non-elective activity.
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NewsExclusive: Better care fund investment returns 'wildly unrealistic', analysis finds
One in 10 better care fund plans are predicting a first year return on investment of more than 20 per cent, HSJ analysis has revealed, prompting new suggestions that the financial planning of the fund is ‘wildly unrealistic’.
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HSJ KnowledgeNetworking gives a lifeline to better patient care
How a CCG deployed ‘eco leadership’
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CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
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HSJ KnowledgeUsing the building blocks of joined up care
Projects across the country delivering integrated care
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HSJ KnowledgeSegment the population to enable better integrated care
Revealing patient needs holistically
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CommentTragic tale of 'Baby P' shows we shouldn't play the blame game
Distinguish accountability from blame
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HSJ PartnersHow providers should deal with scrutiny and balance service demands
Best practice from the Ridouts conference
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NewsPatient safety bill to legislate for zero NHS harm
The NHS could be required to achieve ‘zero avoidable harm’ if a government backed bill being driven through Parliament by the MP for Stafford makes it onto the statute books.
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NewsExclusive: Delayed transfer rate soars to highest level
The national rate of delayed transfers of care has soared to its highest ever level, threatening the better care fund’s ambition to cut costs by improving the transfer of patients from hospital to other care settings.
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SupplementsCommissioning supplement: Sorting the good ideas
The NHS is looking to CSUs to bring health and social care together
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays