All Social care articles – Page 49
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NewsExclusive: Ombudsman seeks new powers to investigate NHS
A new public services ombudsman should be established with powers to probe the decisions of clinical commissioning groups and councils, the Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman has said.
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HSJ LocalSomerset abandons alliance ambitions
STRUCTURE: A pioneering project to improve the integration of care in south Somerset has abandoned its ambition to boost cooperation among providers with an ‘alliance contract’.
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NewsBurnham: Change will be 10 year journey not a ‘big bang’
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has today unveiled further details of his 10 year plan to merge health and social care
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LeaderThe results of English devolution could be profound for the NHS
It is unclear how but the impact will be huge
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HSJ KnowledgeTransforming services: is the feeling toward social enterprises mutual?
Overcome the obstacles
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NewsNHS hospital comparison website launched
A new website to enable patients and staff to compare hospitals across a broad range of metrics from accident and emergency waiting times to the quality of meals will be launched tomorrow.
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NewsMental health wait times 'too long'
Almost one in six mental health patients are attempting suicide as they face ‘unacceptably long’ waits for help, experts have warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated care round up: Heat turns up in the health and social care debate
Discussion and debate on integrated care has been rife
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LeaderTensions grow as NHS reaches make or break month for waits
More time must be spent on primary care
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CommentIt's time we did the right thing by the children of Rotherham
The response has been unbearably slow
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NewsLabour health expert calls for immediate debate on health and care funding
The expert who authored Ed Miliband’s health and social care plan has called on politicians to immediately begin a public debate on the future of funding for the services.
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NewsBeefed up HWBs 'could commission health and social care'
Health and wellbeing boards could be put in charge of commissioning combined health and social care services if they beefed up their contingent of clinicians.
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CommentThe idea of charging for care may have been killed for good
The Barker commission delivers a huge blow
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NewsPut social care funding on par with health, King's Fund proposes
Individuals’ social care needs should be treated and funded on a par with their health needs.
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NewsCCGs lukewarm on integrating health and social care roles
Most clinical commissioning group leaders are lukewarm about the prospect of merging or sharing substantial health and social care responsibilities, the HSJ CCG Barometer suggests.