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Exploring CQC’s well-led domain: How can boards ensure a positive organisational culture?

The CQC’s inspections focus on five key lines of enquiry as part of its ‘well-led’ domain. This paper sets out what boards can do in these five areas and draws on examples of good practice in leadership and culture in health care.
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By Katy Steward - 17 November 2014
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People in control of their own health and care: The state of involvement

Despite the consensus that patients should be more involved in decisions about their health and care, little progress has been made. This report examines the reasons why and considers how we can put ideas about patient involvement into practice.
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By Catherine Foot et al - 4 November 2014
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Adult social care funding: viewpoints

The LGA and ADASS invited senior figures from across the care and support sector to provide their perspective on some of the issues covered in their report, Adult social care funding: 2014 state of the nation. This is Richard Humphries' viewpoint.
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By Richard Humphries - 28 October 2014
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NHS social care: how to make those who would benefit pay for radical improvements

The predictable and understandable reluctance to talk about higher taxation before the election means that the funding challenge facing the NHS is not being adequately addressed.
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By Kate Barker - 7 October 2014
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Our priorities for the next government

With the general election coming at a pivotal time for health and social care, we set out our view of the key challenges and priorities for the next government.
16 September 2014
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A new settlement for health and social care: Final report

The final report from the Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England.
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By Kate Barker - 4 September 2014
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Thoughts on the first 100 days of the next government

As part of the Local Government Association's new campaign, Investing in our nation’s future: the first 100 days of the next government, Richard Humphries details what the Fund would like from the next government in its first 100 days in office.
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By Richard Humphries - 8 July 2014
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Activate the next level of patient engagement

There is evidence that patient activation is an effective way to measure the capacity of patients to manage their health and for providers to better tailor services to them. Helen Gilburt and Alf Collins explain how.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 29 May 2014
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Living longer – a cause for celebration

The fact that people now live longer has been a source of concern for some years now. Many older people say they are happy and report high levels of well-being, while research is beginning to suggest that the proportion of old people with poor health may be reducing. So should this phenomenon be a cause for celebration rather than concern?
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By David Oliver - 27 May 2014
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Developing collective leadership for health care

Our paper argues that collective leadership, as opposed to command-and-control structures , provides the optimum basis for caring cultures.
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By Michael West et al - 21 May 2014
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Supporting people to manage their health: An introduction to patient activation

It is vital that people engage more with improving their own health. This paper introduces a way of conceptualising and measuring that engagement known as patient activation.
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By Judith Hibbard et al - 16 May 2014
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Public satisfaction with the NHS and its services in 2013

We found no change in overall satisfaction with the NHS since 2011, although there have been changes in the public’s views on specific services.
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By John Appleby et al - 6 May 2014
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Why we need a single budget for health and social care

Hard choices have to be faced to ensure our health and social care systems meet the challenges of the 21st century, says commission chair Kate Barker
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By Kate Barker - 3 April 2014
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A new settlement for health and social care: Interim report

The interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England explains why England needs a single health and social care system, with a ring-fenced, singly commissioned budget, and more closely aligned entitlements.
3 April 2014
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Take care with pension reforms

The freeing up of pension pots announced in the Budget could have unintended negative consequences for the social care system. These need to be urgently addressed.
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By Richard Humphries - 1 April 2014
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Making the care system fit for an ageing population

Richard Humphries looks at how social care can meet one of this generation's biggest policy challenges in an opinion article for Community Care.
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By Richard Humphries - 19 March 2014
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Don't see older people as a 'burden' on the NHS

In an article for the Health Service Journal, David Oliver, an author of the Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population report, discusses the changes that must occur and highlights some of the work that is already improving care for older people.
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By David Oliver - 6 March 2014
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Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population

Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people. This report sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components.
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By David Oliver et al - 6 March 2014
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Care.data – your bits in their hands

Over the past few months there has been considerable debate and argument about plans by the NHS to collect and centrally collate details of individual patient records from general practice for the first time. Such fears are perhaps not just hypothetical given past examples of lost patient notes and what appear to be the misuse of sensitive patient information (even for the best of intentions).
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By John Appleby - 13 February 2014
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Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs: Lessons from seven international case studies

This report synthesises evidence from seven integrated care case studies, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help with the challenges ahead.
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By Nick Goodwin et al - 30 January 2014
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