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NewsFury greets cuts to funding for social care’s contribution to integration
Confirmation the government has cut hundreds of millions from budgets partly designed to boost health and care integration has been met with fury, with the decision described as leaving the social care reform agenda in ‘tatters’.
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NewsHewitt: Give the 10 best ICSs greater powers by next year
Ten of the most mature integrated care systems should be given far greater control over their spending and operations from next April, Patricia Hewitt’s much-anticipated review of ICS autonomy has recommended.
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NewsHewitt contradicts new NHSE finance rules
Integrated care systems should be given the freedom to draw up their own payment systems, a government-commissioned review has said, which appears in direct contrast with guidance NHS England has just issued to local leaders.
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NewsSunak should lead ‘national mission for health improvement’
A government-commissioned review has suggested the share of local NHS budgets being spent on ‘prevention’ should be increased by at least one percentage point over the next five years.
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NewsGP contract needs ‘radical reform’, warns ICS review
The GP contract urgently needs ’radical reform’ to enable greater flexibility and local autonomy, the government has been warned.
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NewsReport sets three-month deadline to remove ‘distracting’ central data requests
Patricia Hewitt’s review of integrated care systems has called for an end to the ‘unacceptable’ manual reporting burden placed on ICS providers and partners by NHS England and the government.
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CommentHow ICSs can arrest the decline in the nation's health
Axel Heitmueller, Martin Carkett, Paul Blakeley explain integrated care systems’ part in arresting the decline in the nation’s health.
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NewsAmbulance delays a ‘factor’ in 104 deaths in one region during final quarter of 2022
More than 100 patients died after experiencing delays waiting for care in the last thee months of 2022, an ambulance trust review has revealed.
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Daily InsightDaily Insight: Less than 20/20 vision?
The must-read stories and debate in health policy and leadership.
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NewsICBs lack the data to effectively manage pharmacy, eye and dentistry services
Integrated care boards lack the information to oversee the quality of the primary pharmacy, ophthalmology and dentistry services they took responsibility for at the start of the month, NHSE England has been warned.
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NewsRecruitment rules for interim managers on £750-a-day plus tightened by NHSE
Very senior interim managers, including turnaround directors, employed on a day rate of over £750 will have to be hired through ‘on-framework’ recruitment agencies, new NHS England guidance has stated.
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HSJ Local‘Traffic control’ forecasts will give ICB ‘line of sight for every patient’
An integrated care system is hoping to be among the first to use predictive analytics to plan services, after hiring the firm credited with success of the NHS covid data store, as well as the 2016 Vote Leave campaign.
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NewsUse of private providers damaging NHS eye care, survey reveals
The independent sector should be commissioned to provide more NHS outpatient appointments, rather than just be focused on cutting cataract waiting lists, the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists has said.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Doing the right thing
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HSJ InteractiveHSJ webinar addressed the usability conundrum of electronic patient records
An on-demand version of this webinar is available. In association with The consensus is that electronic patient records are essential to delivering more joined up and integrated care. NHS England’s stated aim is therefore for all hospitals to have an EPR in place by 2025. ...
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: the NHS should target poor understanding, not performance
Instead of trying to understand the causes of problems, the NHS performance management process demands lots of data which only achieves ‘the illusion of control’ in NHSE, writes Steve Black
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News‘Free’ NHS makes people ‘lazy’ says pharmacy chief
The director of a leading pharmacy chain invited to advise the prime minister on healthcare reform has claimed the NHS makes people too ‘lazy’ to take responsibility for their health.
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NewsNHS England warns against block cancellations during ‘unprecedented’ strikes
NHS England has told trust, system and regional leaders to avoid “block rescheduling” of elective cases during the four-day junior doctors’ strike next month.
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News‘Aggressive’ NHSE campaign insists trusts enable digital communications with patients
NHS England has launched a ‘very aggressive campaign’ to ensure all acute trusts give patients the abillity to make appointments and receive messages online.
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NewsTrusts given five years to achieve safe midwife staffing
NHS trusts have been given until 2027-28 to employ enough midwives to meet safe staffing requirements, NHS England’s new maternity delivery plan has said.