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Partnership working: why is integrating health and social care so difficult?

By Jolanta Shields Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: July 6, 2017

Intense financial pressures and an ageing population have challenged NHS England to rethink the ways in which health and social care can be delivered in future. Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) are the key strategic place-based plans that outline a new approach to maintaining financial balance while achieving an improved and integrated health care model. […]

Tagged With: health and social care, NHS, NHS England, STPs, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships

7-day GP services – can this policy deliver for the NHS?

By William Whittaker Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 22, 2016

Failures in patient access to primary care has been suggested as a root cause of the current A&E crisis and was one of the motivating factors for the Government’s 7-day GP services policy.  The logic was that improved access would help to relieve pressure on A&E and other emergency services. But is this best use […]

Tagged With: 7-day NHS, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care, health policy, NHS England

Why I’m unconvinced by Cameron localism and DevoManc chatter

By David Walker Filed Under: All posts, Devo Posted: March 31, 2016

DevoManc’s control of health is at the centre of the government’s localism policy – but the policy is a sham, argues David Walker. Lack of attention Since the ‘historic day’ a year ago when the health secretary stood alongside the chancellor in signing the Greater Manchester health devolution deal, Jeremy Hunt has not – it’s fair to […]

Tagged With: DevoManc, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care, localism, NHS England

Deficit and reform: the NHS’s twin challenges

Kieran Walshe By Kieran Walshe and Judith Smith Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: November 11, 2015

The NHS deficit is unprecedented and unsustainable. All eyes are on the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review and on some promising ideas for reform, explain Professor Kieran Walshe and Professor Judith Smith. The first quarter financial returns for the NHS, published just after the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, are the worst ever. Trusts were £930m […]

Tagged With: devolution, Francis inquiry, Lansley reforms, NHS, NHS England

Can lunch clubs save the NHS?

By Paul Wilson Filed Under: Featured Posted: June 2, 2015

Social prescriptions have been hailed as a wonderful way of improving health outcomes, at low cost. But Paul Wilson argues that we need less rhetoric and more sound research to evaluate project results. The Queen’s Speech has seen the new government reconfirm commitments to make an extra £8bn of funding available to the NHS. But […]

Tagged With: CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Five Year Forward View, gyms, health, Health Select Committee, jeremy hunt, lunch clubs, NHS, NHS England, social prescriptions

What health and social care can learn from UK devolution

By Joy Furnival Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Featured Posted: March 16, 2015

Greater Manchester has announced its plans for health and social care devolution and its oversight of providers.  Joy Furnival examines health and social care oversight functions across the UK and asks what Greater Manchester can learn from these. Devolution and integration of health and social care in Greater Manchester (GM) is the first of its […]

Tagged With: Care and Social Services Inspectorate, Care Inspectorate, Care Quality Commission, devolution, DevoManc, foundation trusts, Greater Manchester, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, Monitor, NHS England, northern ireland, regulation, Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, Scotland, Scottish Patient Safety Programme, Scottish Quality Improvement hub, Scottish Quality Strategy, Trust Development Authority, wales, Welsh Assembly Delivery Unit

Changing the ties that bind

Julia Segar By Julia Segar Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: February 9, 2015

Clinical Commissioning Groups were introduced by the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. The role of GPs within the NHS and their relationships with NHS managers are changing as a result, explains Julia Segar.  The NHS is dealing with severe challenges at present, with A&E in crisis and bed blocking preventing the release of some […]

Tagged With: CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Five Year Forward View, GP Fundholding, GPs, Health and Social Care Act, NHS, NHS England, PCTs, Practice Based Commissioning, Simon Stevens

New approach needed to tackle ‘lifestyle diseases’

Stanley Blue By Stanley Blue Filed Under: Featured Posted: February 2, 2015

The Change4Life campaign just launched by NHS England is the latest attempt to persuade people to adopt healthier lifestyles.  But, says Dr Stanley Blue, this type of public health campaign is not enough to tackle fast rising rates of ‘lifestyle diseases’. Current public health policy is focussed on getting people to change their eating, drinking […]

Tagged With: cancer, cardiovascular disease, Change4Life, drinking, exercise, lifestyle diseases, NHS, NHS England, non-communicable diseases, obesity, public health, smoking, type 2 diabetes

Care.data project tarnished by liberties and assumptions

Jonathan Hammond By Jonathan Hammond Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: February 21, 2014

The potential for Care.data to improve the health of the nation is hard to argue with, writes Jonathan Hammond. But he argues that a lack of patient control, security concerns and a lamentable communications strategy have tarnished the laudable aims of the whole scheme. Let’s start with some facts about Care.data. It is a programme […]

Tagged With: care.data, GPs, health policy, healthcare, NHS England, patient data, patient database, patient trust, primary care, public health

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