All Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) articles – Page 22
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Comment
The NHS should redefine its role to tackle health inequalities
The NHS will have a better chance at tackling health inequalities if it does so with local government, other partners and communities
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HSJ Local
STP leader steps down
The sustainability and transformation partnership leader for the Black Country and west Birmingham is stepping down.
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News
Life sciences forum launched by HSJ
HSJ has launched its first event for the life sciences sector.
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HSJ Local
Three CCGs plan to consolidate across county boundary
Three clinical commissioning groups in Essex and Suffolk have set out plans to form a “single strategic commissioning body” across county boundaries as part of local plans to establish an integrated care system
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News
New exemplars to end 'absurd' reliance on faxes
NHS England has invited nine regions to develop shared “local health and care records” and data centres, in a bid to break the NHS’s “absurd” reliance on fax machines to share information.
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HSJ Local
Trust cancels operations until Easter to 'reset' health economy
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has cancelled all elective operations until 29 March to try to “reset” its health economy after the region declared a system wide black alert.
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Comment
Halt the use of consultancies to improve efficiency
Management consultants are more likely to generate inefficiency, hence spending less on management consultants could improve outcomes in the healthcare system
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HSJ Local
STP commissioners appoint single leader
A single accountable officer will lead all four clinical commissioning groups across a West Midlands sustainability and transformation partnership.
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News
NHS England looks to do more to tackle health inequalities
NHS England is considering what more it and the NHS should be doing about health inequalities, partly in response to “disturbing” figures showing life expectancy falling in some areas.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: New commissioners – a lead provider
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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HSJ Local
Former acute trust boss to lead six CCGs
A former acute trust chief executive is to head the new single strategic commissioner covering six clinical commissioning groups in Kent and Medway.
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HSJ Local
Top CCG lead named as chief executive of inadequate trust
Inadequate rated Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has appointed local commissioning heavy hitter Antek Lejk as its new chief executive.
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News
Kirkup warnings over scrapped community services 'forward view'
The safety expert who investigated the Liverpool care scandal has raised concerns over NHS England’s decision to scrap a “forward view” for community services.
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HSJ Local
Trust chief: STP must be reviewed after 'extraordinary' winter
The new chief executive of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has said the region’s sustainability and transformation partnership should be reviewed following “extraordinary” winter pressures.
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HSJ Local
Official review tells Hunt to knock back hospital downgrade
An independent review has recommended Jeremy Hunt knocks back an NHS decision to downgrade a general hospital’s maternity services.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Decision time for property disposals
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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News
Speed up mental health improvement, warns report ordered by PM
Promised commitments to improve children and young people’s mental health services must be delivered more quickly or patients will suffer “unnecessary distress”, a report ordered by Theresa May has warned.
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News
Exclusive: Three-trust merger plan dropped
A merger of three trusts has been dropped because it would have created a trust spanning two sustainability and transformation partnership areas, along with concerns over clinical and financial viability, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: ACO out, ICS in
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. By Dave West.
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News
CCG lead and GP join NHS England as primary care directors
NHS England has appointed a former clinical commissioning group leader as its deputy director of primary care.