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Map: Find out which CCG your area fits in Simon Rogers
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The watchdog has been making serious efforts to restore professional confidence, but news that it may appoint a former Conservative party chief executive as its chair is concerning The Care Quality Commission is the public bulwark against neglect and abuse in health and social care. That's why the...
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Newly published Dr Foster Hospital Guide shows lack of integrated care leads to overcrowded A&E departments In March this year, the Department of Health published the evaluation of the national integrated care pilots launched in 2009. The results were disappointing. The hoped-for reduction in emergency...
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The test is not another complaints system – it puts the voice and opinion of patients at the heart of the NHS The friends and family test is not just another NHS data collection exercise. For the first time, the fundamental purpose of the information collected is to share it with the public in a totally...
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There are signs local authorities will forge closer relationships with CCGs than they might have done with primary care trusts During this time of transition as public health moves into local government and GPs into clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), both sides are bound to bring some historical challenges...
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The only way to improve the quality of all patient meals in England is to require them to meet mandatory sustainability standards NHS hospitals in England buy a lot of food, enough for 300 million patient meals a year. Much of it is poor quality and unpopular with those who are asked to eat it. Most...
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Next April local authorities take charge of public health, but what partnerships will need to be established? Saba Salman reports on the third in a series of debates on the changeover With less than six months to go before councils adopt responsibility for public health from the NHS in April 2013, much...
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Regular updates from our live blog on the health secretary's speech to the Nuffield Trust health policy summit in Dorking 2.24pm: The health bill is also currently being discussed in the House of Lords. You can keep updated on it's progress at the Guardian's NHS reforms live blog here . From...
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Integration and co-ordination can make a huge difference in the service delivered to children – and the impact on their health To some children and their parents it can feel like different parts of the NHS just don't talk to each other. The parents of Craig*, a 10-year-old with learning difficulties...
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New website aims to provide residents with information on health and social care services in the area Wirral council has launched a new website which brings together information on health, social care and wellbeing from a range of organisations. The new site has been developed by Voluntary and Community...
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Social workers have gained increasing levels of approval – at least in their professional titles Before I was an approved mental health professional (AMHP), I was an approved social worker, and before I was an approved social worker I was a social worker – but I'm getting ahead of myself already...
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Former health secretary says health and social care has use new technology to eliminate waste Stephen Dorrell, chair of the health select committee and former health secretary, has called for the NHS to make better use of IT and management information to eliminate inefficiencies. Speaking at the National...
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Hospital in Enfield will lose its A&E and maternity units and merge with neighbouring trust Health secretary Andrew Lansley has backed plans for Chase Farm hospital in north London to merge with North Middlesex University hospital trust. Lansley has accepted proposals put forward by the Independent...
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Heads of the four strategic health authority clusters in England will take up their new posts in October The Department of Health (DH) has confirmed the appointment of Strategic Health Authority (SHA) chief executives for the north, south, Midlands and east of England and London. The DH has appointed...
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Delegates at conference agree that the issue of whether a GP's primary responsibility will be to patients or to commissioning consortiums 'must be clarified' GPs could lose the trust of patients unless the government clarifies in the health and social care bill to whom they owe their primary...