VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
Health & care transformation: What do we need to consider?
25/04/2023 Gavin Bashar, UK & Ireland MD of Tunstall Healthcare, shares his thoughts on the digital transformation of the health and care sectors. |
Hewitt Review calls for social care to be ‘national priority’
04/04/2023 The former health secretary's report on Integrated Care Systems called for further funding and a workforce strategy for social care. |
Charity calls for preventative care to save ‘overstretched’ NHS
17/02/2023 An older person’s charity has called for more investment into preventative care to help ease the pressure on the ‘overstretched’ NHS and social care system. |
How ICSs can take a population-based approach to financial planning
16/08/2022 James Glossop and Shaun Hobbs explains what can be done to better support population based financial planning by Integrated Care Boards. |
White paper aims to improve links between social care and the NHS
09/02/2022 The Government has outlined plans to bring local government and the NHS closer together under its new Integration White Paper. |
‘No evidence’ integration improves healthcare
03/09/2021 New analysis of health and care integration pilots has questioned the benefits they bring about. |
Think tank calls for collaboration in face of ‘stark’ health inequalities
22/02/2021 A think tank has called on health and care organisations across London to continue working together closely after the pandemic in order to tackle health inequalities across the capital. |
Spending watchdog raises 'serious concerns' over Integration Joint Boards
26/01/2021 Councils in Scotland are having to provide financial support to Integration Joint Boards (IJBs), the spending watchdog has warned. |
A vision for transparency
30/09/2019 How can technology-enabled integration and data sharing deliver better outcomes for London’s young people? Dave Pether reports. |
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Greater Manchester to invest over £14m in ‘digital transformation'
29/08/2019 Greater Manchester is set to see £14.3m invested into digital transformation which aims to allow the safe and secure sharing of health-related information. |
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Ministers confirm renewal of the Better Care Fund
19/07/2019 The Government has confirmed the Better Care Fund will be renewed for 2019/20 to ensure the continued integration of health and social care. |
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Impact of Integrated Care Fund 'remains unclear'
18/07/2019 The impact of the Integrated Care Fund in Wales remains ‘unclear’ despite a £385m investment, the Auditor General has warned today. |
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Government announces £28m to ‘ease pressure' of migration
15/07/2019 Councils across England are to receive £28m to help ease the pressures on services resulting from recent migration, the Government announced over the weekend. |
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Integrating migrants could boost economy by £7bn, think tank says
18/06/2019 A think tank has called for the setting up of ‘local integration funds’ to help migrants find jobs that match their skills as part of a series of proposals to improve integration. |
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National strategy to tackle inequalities in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
07/06/2019 Communities minister Lord Bourne has launched a national strategy to tackle inequality and improve the lives of gypsy, roma and traveller communities. |
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£3m fund launched to support integration
20/05/2019 The Government today announced 16 projects which will receive £3m of funding to support ‘innovative’ approaches to integration. |
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Think tank calls for devolution of transport funding
18/02/2019 The devolution of transport funding will enable councils to invest on a strategic basis and help match up transport with new developments, a new report says. |
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Brokenshire announces plans to improve integration
11/02/2019 The Government has announced new measures to help immigrants integrate with their communities. |
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Scottish health and social care must ‘happen faster’, report says
05/02/2019 The integration of health and social care is progressing well but needs to ‘happen faster’, a ministerial group for health and community care has concluded. |
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Funding unveiled to tackle poor integration
10/07/2018 A new £7m fund to help tackle the causes of poor integration in England has been launched by local government minister, James Brokenshire. |
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Health and social care integration ‘hampered’ by lack of communication, MPs say
11/06/2018 There has been a ‘failure’ to engage with local leaders when it comes to the integration of health and social care services, MPs say. |
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Councils to share £19m to boost integration
11/06/2018 Councils in England will receive £19m to help ease pressures on housing, education and health services due to recent migration. |
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Integrated health and social care starts with the network
22/05/2018 Darren Turner explains why having the right network in place is key to the succesful integration of health and social care services. |
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Enoch was wrong, integration can work – if we get it right locally
20/04/2018 Steve Ballinger explores some of the challenges that local areas face when getting integration right today. |
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Five councils to help with Government integration plan
14/03/2018 The Government will work with five local authorities to develop integration plans as it develops a national strategy for England, it has announced today. |
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Local government and health leaders urged to remake partnership
21/02/2018 Local government and health leaders have been urged to seize the ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to remake their partnership by England’s top A&E doctor. |
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Health and social care reforms being ‘undermined’ by financial pressures
19/01/2018 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) may not achieve their ambitious plans as they are being forced to grapple with short-term financial pressures, CIPFA has warned. |
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Fact or fiction?
03/10/2017 Fact or fiction: dispelling the myths to achieve effective health and social care collaboration. |
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Progress on prevention and integration in care sector ‘too slow’, charity warns
25/09/2017 Local authorities are ‘struggling’ to meet their obligations to prevent, reduce or delay the need for care, the British Red Cross has warned. |
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STPs ‘under pressure’ and ‘under funded’, survey reveals
21/09/2017 Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are ‘under pressure’ as local authorities and health organisations struggle to integrate, survey reveals. |
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City takes part in project to improve integration
24/07/2017 Liverpool is one of five cities taking part in an international project run by Oxford University to help new arrivals integrate. |
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Think tank urges urgent health and social care ‘reboot’
05/07/2017 The integration of health and social care requires an urgent ‘reboot’ by Whitehall following last month’s General Election result, think tank says. |
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Council chiefs withdraw support for Better Care Funding guidance
05/07/2017 Council leaders have hit out at ‘last minute’ plans to penalise authorities that fail to reduce bed blocking in their area. |
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Health and social care devolution deal agreed in Surrey
16/06/2017 A second Greater Manchester-style devolution deal has been struck in Surrey Heartlands. |
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Councils have ‘weak’ understanding of accountable care systems
12/05/2017 Council figures have ‘weak’ understanding of accountable care systems despite the fact they play an important role in integration of health and social care. |
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New city-region mayors should be ‘integration champions’, think tank urges
02/05/2017 The new ‘metro mayors’ will be well placed to become integration ‘champions’ for their areas, report says. |
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Better Care Fund a 'ruse' to plug council budgets say MPs
27/04/2017 The Better Care Fund has been dubbed a 'complicated ruse’ to transfer money from health to local government, in a new report published today. |
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Councils urged to tackle segregation by Casey
05/12/2016 Public sector leaders have done too little to stop communities from becoming segregated for fear of being branded racist, Dame Louise Casey has claimed. |
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MPs blame ‘political maladministration' for unsafe hospital discharges
28/09/2016 ‘Political maladministration’ has led to an unacceptable high level of unsafe discharges from hospital, MPs have warned today. |
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Council leaders reject devolution deal
07/09/2016 The future of a devolution deal in the North East of England is in doubt after council leaders voted yesterday to reject a government deal. |
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Councils ‘willing and able’ to provide leadership in health and care integration
22/08/2016 Councils chiefs have written to the health secretary urging him to recognise local authorities as equal partners with the NHS in health and care integration. |
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Corbyn pledges to 'insource' council services
04/08/2016 Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to insource council services and build 500,000 new council homes in his new leadership manifesto. |
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Failure to share putting service reform at risk, warns paper
02/08/2016 Local authorities have been urged not to ‘reinvent the wheel’ when it comes to reforming public services, in a new paper exploring how to integrate services and improve outcomes. |
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Health and social care integration needs ‘substantial progress’, CQC says
13/07/2016 Older people denied effective and personalised care due to poor integration across local systems, according to health watchdog. |
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Leadership from councillors 'important for integration'
06/07/2016 Political leadership is essential for integration because only elected members have the necessary mandate to ‘bring people together’, according to a speaker from a workshop session at the LGA conference. |
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'Pioneering’ care organisation launched in Salford
04/07/2016 Salford City Council has helped launch a new organisation to join up adult social services and health care across the city. |
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New care roles are a distraction warn experts
30/06/2016 New integrated care jobs are not necessarily the best way of bringing services together, a leading think tank has warned. |
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Report calls for new health and care department
28/06/2016 A new Whitehall department should be set up to manage an integrated health and social care budget, a new report has said. |
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Report outlines urgent need to integrate health and social care
15/06/2016 The health and social care sector should be better integrated, and national leaders need to address the short-fall in public health funding, health experts warn. |
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Council chiefs fearful of service failures in next three years
26/05/2016 More than half of council chief executives (56%) said the fear facing financial crisis within the next year, a new survey has revealed. |
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Councils urged to take a more ‘active’ approach to integration
10/05/2016 Local authorities should publish annual measures of residential segregation as part of a ‘more muscular’ approach to managing ethnic and religious diversity, a new Civitas report argues. |
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Reform of health and social care under threat, warns watchdog
10/03/2016 A lack of national leadership and clear planning is holding up urgent changes needed for health and social care services, Scottish government watchdogs have warned. |
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Think tank calls for integration of mental and physical health services
08/03/2016 The NHS could save £11bn a year by bringing treatment of physical and mental health together, according to specialist think tank The Kings Fund. |
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Better Care Fund struggling with red tape warns report
08/12/2015 The government’s project to integrate health and social care services is being held back by too much red tape, a new report is warning. |
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District councils ‘sleeping giants of public health’ says report
19/11/2015 District councils are the ‘sleeping giants of public health’ and should be seen as such by the NHS and other tiers of local government, according to a new report from The Kings Fund. |
