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Accountable Care Systems: Moving at a pace and scale that doesn’t allow us to learn from the immediate past?

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There is a current push to create Accountable Care Systems in the NHS, but does anyone really know what they are, exactly who will need to be involved in their creation, operation and oversight and have we yet learnt the lessons of previous models? asks Dr Anna Coleman. Accountable Care Systems (ACS) have been designed […]

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Can lunch clubs save the NHS?

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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 […]

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Changing the ties that bind

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

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 […]

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CCGs go primetime but reforms have spun a complex web of accountability

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The major reforms stemming from the Health and Social Care Act 2012 have permeated Saturday night television, writes Dr Julia Segar. But while Clinical Commissioning Groups may have made it onto BBC One’s Casualty, a recent storyline misrepresented their ability to hold A&E departments to account; although given the complexity of the new system, this is perhaps […]

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