All Transforming Community Services articles – Page 4
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HSJ Knowledge
Let the mavericks lead primary care service design
Put GPs at the centre of radical approach to integration
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HSJ Local
CCG considers seven-year community services contract
COMMERCIAL: Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group plans to re-commission its community health and social care services on an unprecedentedly long contract of up to seven years.
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News
Monitor watching CCG procurement decisions 'closely'
Monitor is closely observing the decisions clinical commissioning groups are making about transforming community services contracts, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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News
MP: Let communities run hospitals
“Communities” must be given the chance to own and run smaller hospitals and help push forward the changes the NHS needs to succeed, a Conservative MP has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Local integrated care receives a massive lift
Analysis of the LIFT programme’s benefits
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News
Community trusts devise plan to 'level playing field'
Community services trusts are starting work on a national programme to develop indicators to benchmark their performance and value, which could potentially underpin a tariff payment system for the sector, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
It's time to stop ignoring patients' complaints
Confronting complaints can be uncomfortable but it is essential
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Comment
Predicted wave of tenders refuses to arrive
Lack of TCS tenders is one of many miseries facing commissioners
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HSJ Knowledge
Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice
A new role integrates research and care
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News
Analysis: Pointing the way to change in primary care
As government and NHS leaders step up pressure for radical change in general practice, existing extended services – such as Leeds’ York Street practice for homeless people and asylum seekers – may point the way to new approaches and models for primary care.
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HSJ Knowledge
Community services: challenges in retendering and renewal
Explaining the impact of the TCS programme
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News
Mental health trusts look to diversify
Almost two thirds of NHS in-house mental health providers now also provide non-mental health services, a survey shared with HSJ reveals.
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HSJ Local
Analysed: Community engagement in Mid Devon
Examining the future of Tiverton and District Hospital after a meeting between commissioners and the public
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Leader
Torbay presents a test for the new system
Monitor needs to indicate its position over tendering challenge
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HSJ Knowledge
Redesigning end of life care in the community
It is time to move resources away from hospitals
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News
Community trusts seek payment system reform
Aspirant community foundation trusts plan to lobby for changes to the NHS finance system to prevent activity being driven into acute hospitals.
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Comment
Community care should be the NHS's first option
Community FTs are crucial to the mandate’s aspirations
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Leader
CSUs are heading for centre-stage
The vision for commissioning support units is expanding under Bob Ricketts