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Care services minister Paul Burstow wants the NHS to pay for telehealth and telecare through monthly contracts Paul Burstow, the care services minister, has indicated that he would like to see telehealth and telecare services provided to the NHS without the need for up-front capital payments. Speaking at the King's Fund international congress on telehealth and telecare, Burstow said a community nurse supervisor should be able to pay for a blood pressure monitor through a monthly contract, in a similar way to that in which people pay for iPhones or Blackberrys. Such a strategy is already used...

Join us from 12 to 2pm on Wednesday 7 March to discuss how the NHS can contribute to improving public health in the future Public health is currently in a state of transition, with the responsibility of public health services transferring from the NHS to local authorities across the country by April 2013 under plans set out in the government's public health white paper last summer. Each primary care trust (PCT) is required to submit an integrated plan for public health to the Department of Health by the start of April, ensuring that transition measures have been developed with local authorities...

Chief executive of Whittington Health, Dr Yi Mien Koh, explains to Jessica Fuhl that the biggest challenge to integration and efficiency is getting staff on board Whittington Health has ambitions plans for the future. It hopes to achieve foundation trust status by 2014 and its first step to ensure it made sufficient efficiency savings in order to do so was to fully integrate local community services with the hospital last year. In January it had reached 98% of its cost improvement programme (CIP) target for the financial year as a result. The integrated health organisation is a merger of the formerly...

Catch up on just a few of the comments from Twitter on this year's Nuffield Trust health policy summit This article is published by Guardian Professional. Join the healthcare network to receive regular emails and exclusive offers. Policy England Work practices Efficiency Jessica Fuhl guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Gill Hitchcock reports on how Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University hospitals NHS trust tackled healthcare associated infections When Diane Wake began a new role at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University hospitals NHS trust in 2007 she faced a major challenge. The 800-bed trust was a "national outlier" in terms of its healthcare associated infection rates and, as the trust's new executive director of nursing and operations and director of infection prevention and control, Wake was tasked with tackling this. "We had large amounts of MRSA, an excessive rate of clostridium...

We round up the biggest and best stories on the web from last week, covering healthcare news, policy and best practice Inertia rather than privatisation is the biggest threat facing the NHS Chris Ham is chief executive of The Kings Fund. He argues that the most effective response to concerns that the core values of the NHS are under threat is to show that it can adapt rapidly to the challenging environment in which we live. BMA: one hundred years of solidarity The British Medical Association looks back at a hundred years of its GPs committee and summarises a report from health historian John Eversley...

Department of Health receives thousands of responses to call for comments and ideas about best health apps The Department of Health (DH) has received nearly 500 entries and more than 12,600 votes and comments in response to its invitation for ideas about the best existing apps and ideas for new ones to support healthcare. The invitation went out in August 2011 and was open for six weeks. According to the department it has helped identify apps with "potentially huge value to patients and the NHS that promote better management of long term conditions or healthy living". A DH spokeswoman...