Health
The latest briefings, news and opinion about health
News
Health and wellbeing boards could take control of £1bn care fund
Ministers consider giving new boards financial responsibility for the first time
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Reform calls for lifting of NHS ringfence
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Senior NHS official 'sceptical' about CCGs relying on in-house commissioners
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CQC reveals details of services ratings plan
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Fund to examine health and care integration
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Oxfordshire council and CCG to step up pooled budget
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Revealed: the 100-fold variation in CCG workforce size
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Integrated care has cross-Whitehall backing
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Quarter of CCGs facing financial 'difficulty'
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Low paid NHS staff offered route to top clinical jobs
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Struggling CSUs to be told to outsource or lose accreditation
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GP safety reporting to be investigated
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LGA troubled by 'death tables' website
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Sir David Nicholson announces major review of NHS strategy
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'Close hospitals' to save the NHS, say managers, doctors and patients
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Nicholson: Transferring health funds to social care spells 'radical changes' to hospitals
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Wellbeing board architect questions Burnham plan
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Joint health pioneer pulls social workers back
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First details of integration pilot bids revealed
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Death rate league table to ‘challenge’ councils
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Chief inspector of hospitals revealed
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NHS staff morale holds up despite pressures, say HR directors
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Government plans 'talking' pilot to improve NHS culture
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Workforce chiefs seek further cuts to pay and conditions
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CCG concern over 'top slice' to fund property company shortfall
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CCG tenders integrated older people's service worth up to £1bn
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CCG Barometer: Confident commissioners voice gripes with new system
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Who could succeed Sir David as NHS England chief executive?
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CCGs doubt CSUs' ability to innovate
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Patients able to complain to Monitor about anti-competitive behaviour
Opinion
Challenging the health service
Strategic commissioning is the real challenge for local government, argues Wirral chief Graham Burgess
Michael White: viva la women's revolution!
Are women in healthcare putting a strain on services, asks Guardian and Health Service Journal columnist Michael White
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Briefings
Backing communities to drive reform
Essex’s Dan Gascyone discusses how injecting some common sense into new ways of working ensures programmes head in the right direction
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Boards are briefed but the task is tough
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Health: ripe for whole place plans
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Dilnot is a building block, let’s move on
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How can Health and Wellbing Boards and Academic Health Science Networks collaborate?
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Heseltine report a timely springboard
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The consequences of a lack of inter-provider information sharing
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Tackling an 'acute' bias
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Breaking boundaries to improve lives
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The work and wellbeing challenge








