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Technology can help people to be responsible for their health from their own home rather than from hospital Arun Marsh
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Rather than comic book heroes, it is often local heroes and the efforts of individual staff that produce co-ordinated care You would be forgiven for thinking that integration is the new fresh-faced comic book hero fearlessly felling all foes. A&E crisis? "No problem ma'am, a bit of integration...
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Integration within the NHS has historically been structural – but from the patient's perspective it has lacked co-ordination Many people have placed great faith in the idea that integrated care can solve some of the most pernicious health issues of our time. With an ageing population and a dramatic...
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Charities have been involved in providing and improving health and wellbeing services since well before the creation of the NHS Earlier this week Norman Lamb announced the government's ambition to make integrated care the norm in the NHS in the next five years. In his speech, he referred to the example...
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Norman Lamb says health and social care will be integrated by 2018 but underestimates the investment required There is a great deal to welcome in the announcement from health minister Norman Lamb that there will be big push to integrate health and social care, but the road ahead is longer, more difficult...
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Families are the biggest providers of care, yet carers can find themselves cut out of decision-making and bounced between different bureaucracies Caring is a fact of life. Whether a partner falls ill, or a parent needs support as they grow older, or a child is born with a disability – it will affect...
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Wed, May 15 2013
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Cost-effective, person-centred, co-ordinated care requires support for local health systems so they can deliver the right care in the right settings, and develop new ways of working In recent years, the health and social care sectors have both faced a series of unprecedented challenges. These have included...
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Tue, May 14 2013
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Integrating housing, health and care services can have a positive impact on costs and outcomes but despite growing evidence, why aren't more organisations doing it? When Midland Heart set up stall at two health conferences last year, delegates were confused about why the housing association was there...
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Sun, Mar 31 2013
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Thu, Mar 21 2013
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There should be more discussion around the potential for voluntary organisations to complement the NHS In recent months, we have seen further evidence that some parts of the NHS are overstretched, struggling to cope with financial pressures and are sometimes failing to meet required quality standards...
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Mon, Feb 25 2013
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With about a month to go before we congregate in Vienna for ECR 2013, we invited Christian Marolt, Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers, to write for us about healthcare in a changing world. The European...
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Fri, Feb 8 2013
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The shadow health secretary says he wants to look to the best US providers when building an integrated care system The response to Andy Burnham's speech on Labour's health policy review is intriguing. With the coalition ostensibly banging the drum on integration as loudly as Burnham himself,...
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Thu, Jan 31 2013
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A report shows how stretched resources can be made to go further when health, housing and social care services collaborate For Bruce Wall, it's not about the money, it's about having his own life back. Wall, who is tetraplegic after a serious motorcycle accident nearly 20 years ago, says moving...
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Thu, Jan 31 2013
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Labour's promising experiment 'barely got out of the lab', yet could teach us a lot about health and social care integration The Labour party's new-found enthusiasm for total integration of health and social care begs the question of what it did to advance such an agenda during 13 years...
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Fri, Jan 25 2013
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