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Clinical leaders need to bring their experience to service re-design

Anna Moore reflects on how medical leaders can help to develop new models of care and integrate services around the needs of patients.
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By Anna Moore - 17 December 2015
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Social care: a future we don’t yet know

Ahead of the Spending Review, Richard Humphries and John Appleby look at the data to examine the likely fall in social care spending.
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By Richard Humphries, John Appleby - 8 November 2015
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Simon Stevens' vision for the NHS: welcome but challenging to deliver

In his keynote address at our annual integrated care summit, Simon Stevens gave what was arguably his most important speech since he took up post. His speech contained three big messages.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 14 October 2015
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Improving hospital discharge and intermediate care for older people

Healthwatch England's recent report, Safely home, described in harrowing detail the personal stories of patients who felt that their discharge from hospital was unsupported. It also described patients marooned in acute beds unable to move on. So how can older people's care be improved?
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By David Oliver - 6 October 2015
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Increased demand for care won't be addressed by doing more of the same

With the first anniversary of the NHS five year forward view approaching rapidly, how are new care models developing, and what are the prospects for the future?
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 October 2015
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NHS mergers: putting all our baskets into one egg?

What can be done to improve the quality of decision-making on NHS mergers, and can the tide of unsuccessful mergers be stemmed?
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By Ben Collins, Michael West - 24 September 2015
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We need to talk about social care providers

Amid growing concern that most NHS providers are sliding into deficit, arguably we should be even more worried about social care providers, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 18 September 2015
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What have we learnt in the government’s first 100 days?

Chris Ham gives his assessment of the new government’s health policy.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 17 August 2015
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Paying for care: back to square one?

The government’s decision to breach an explicit manifesto commitment by delaying reforms to social care funding until 2020 again demonstrates the apparent inability of successive governments to make headway on this issue.
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By Richard Humphries - 20 July 2015
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Care homes: coming out of the shadows?

Care homes have operated in the shadows of public and political awareness for too long, with policy attention focused on reactions to service failure rather than the promotion of good care.
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By Richard Humphries - 10 July 2015
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The politics of NHS funding and taxation in the new parliament

If promised spending increases do not materialise soon, and ministers insist on the NHS regaining control of its finances, then urgent action will be needed, says Chris Ham.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 3 July 2015
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Enhancing health care in care homes: integration in practice

Enhanced care in care homes is one of the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view. This is good news, as it's high time this issue was brought to the fore, for a number of reasons.
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By David Oliver - 19 May 2015
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Is surplus NHS estate the answer to funding transformation?

Both The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation have called for a properly resourced 'transformation fund' to support the kind of large-scale change outlined in the NHS five year forward view. But how big would such a fund need to be and how would it be resourced?
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By Lillie Wenzel - 1 May 2015
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Social care and the election: we need to talk about the money

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo once said that politicians campaign in poetry but govern in prose. When it comes to social care issues in the current election campaign, most UK politicians are struggling with even basic literacy.
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By Richard Humphries - 30 April 2015
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Beyond the manifestos: prospects for the NHS after the election

What then are we to make of the commitments made by the three main political parties?
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 17 April 2015
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Reconfiguring NHS services: necessary but fraught with difficulties

With the NHS facing growing pressures on all fronts, following the general election the next government is likely to begin a new round of NHS service reconfiguration planning. So what are the challenges around service reconfiguration? And what evidence is available to help guide the process?
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By Matthew Honeyman - 14 April 2015
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The coalition government’s record on social care

The coalition has done well to pass the Care Act, but bigger change is now needed. In an ageing society social care has become too important to play second fiddle to the NHS, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 12 March 2015
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Implementing the NHS five year forward view: let’s not forget engaging patients and communities

‘Implementing the Forward View’ is often synonymous with ‘establishing multispecialty community providers and primary and acute care systems’. But this risks leaving behind the more radical chapter of the Forward View – chapter two, on engaging patients and communities.
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By Catherine Foot - 18 February 2015
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Health and social care debate heating up in run-up to election 2015

As debate on the future of the NHS rises up the agenda ahead of the general election in May, the government can take comfort from our report on the British Social Attitudes Survey 2014, which shows public satisfaction with the NHS at its second highest level since the survey began.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 29 January 2015
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Three challenges and a big uncertainty for the NHS in 2015

The NHS faces three major challenges in 2015: preparing for the spending review, achieving much closer integration of health and social care, and ensuring that the NHS has the leadership in place to deliver the highest possible standards of care within available resources.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 January 2015
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