Integrated care
Merger of Ealing PCT’s provider services arm, Harrow PCT’s provider services arm and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
Co-operation and Competition Panel | accessed 18 December 2009
Ealing PCT’s provider services arm, Harrow PCT’s provider services arm and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust are proposing to merge to form an Integrated Care Organisation.
Consistent with its draft interim merger guidelines, the CCP will examine the costs and benefits of the proposed merger to patients and taxpayers, [...]
Integrated Care Network – An Introductory Guide
Department of Health | accessed 26 October 2009 (pdf)
The programme of Integrated Care Pilots (ICP) is a two-year Department of Health (DH) initiative. Its purpose is to explore different ways of providing health and social care services to
help drive improvements in local health and wellbeing.
The programme of Integrated Care Pilots (ICP) is a two-year Department [...]
Walk-in doctors’ surgery launched in Nuneaton
Coventry Telegraph | 20 October 2009
AN INNOVATIVE walk-in doctor’s surgery has been launched at a health centre in Nuneaton.
It will allow patients to have an appointment even if they are registered with another surgery and is part of a government programme to increase access to family GP services.
George Eliot Hospital has become the first Acute [...]
Integrated care pilots: An introductory guide
Department of Health | 30 September 2009
The programme of Integrated Care Pilots (ICP) is a two-year Department of Health (DH) initiative. Its purpose is to explore different ways of providing health and social care services to help drive improvements in local health and wellbeing.
Integrated care is an important building block within the strategic plan for [...]
Integrated care: pride of the community
Health Service Journal | BY DALONI CARLISLE | 28 August 2009
District nurses embody the high quality workforce envisioned by Darzi, but the sector lacks the commitment to attract new nurses to this 150 year old service, says Daloni Carlisle.
District nursing is changing to reflect a modern service.
The workforce is ageing and training has been slashed.
Renewed commitment to the [...]
Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) project
Durham Dales PBC | accessed 3 August 2009
The Darzi Next Stage Review set out a vision for Primary and Community Care. Buried in the middle of this document was a relatively short piece of guidance which proposed that the Department of Health would pilot Integrated Care Organisations in 2009.
Integrated Care Organisations are an attempt to [...]
Integrated Care Organisations
Assura | Cambridgeshire PCT | accessed on 3 August 2009
Assura is working with groups of GPs across the country to develop new models of healthcare provision and organisation by working in partnership with other NHS bodies, such as local hospitals and PCT community services. The name for these partnerships is Integrated Care Organisations (ICOs).
Cambridgeshire ICO
In [...]
Integrated care pilot for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) in North Tyneside
NHS North of Tyne | News | 17 July 2009
Doctors in North Tyneside are preparing to test a new way of working with patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as part of a national project.
The 15 GP practices in North Tyneside are trialling a new approach which is developing ways of joining up [...]
Integrated care pilot to be investigated
Health Service Journal | By Sally Gainsbury | 16 June 2009
One of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot schemes is to be investigated by the co-operation and competition panel to see if it breaches merger, choice and competition rules.
Under pilot scheme, City Hospitals Sunderland foundation trust plans to merge with a local GP practice. [...]
Integrated care
British Medical Journal | Feature: Health Policy | Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist | Published 8 May 2009
The government hopes that integration of services will improve care, but as Nigel Hawkes reports the pilot schemes have a lot to prove
Sixteen organisations have been chosen to pilot new models of integrated care in the English National Health Service. [...]
Only Connect: Policy Options for integrating health and social care
The Nuffield Trust Briefing Paper | Chris Ham, University of Birmingham | April 2009
INTRODUCTION
To explore the issues involved in achieving closer integration of health and social care, the Nuffield Trust held a series of seminars led by experts in this field between November 2008 and January 2009.
The series built on previous work by the Trust on [...]
Integrated care will be tested by only 16 organisations
Health Services Journal | 1 APRIL, 2009 | BY HELEN CRUMP
Just 16 organisations have made it onto the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot scheme.
The department had originally said it would select around 20 bids from more than 100 applicants.
Three strategic health authority areas – NHS South Central, NHS South East Coast and NHS West Midlands – have [...]
A practical guide to integrated working
Care Services Improvement Partnership
What is integrated care?
Integrated care refers to advanced arrangements for joint working. In the context of this book the focus is on health and local authority care provision for children and adults, which at times will include Housing and Leisure services. The broad context of Local Area Agreements and joint strategic needs assessment which must underpin [...]
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