Care Pathways

Three CCGs slapped with NHS England legal directions

18.08.17: Three CCGs have been slapped with NHS England legal directions requiring them to produce urgent improvement and financial plans, as well as hire turnaround directors and review their executive team and senior appointments. The commissioning...

Next steps on shift to accountable care organisations revealed

11.08.17: A handbook has been released to give practical guidance to support local areas looking to implement an accountable care organisation (ACO) model and a whole population budget (WPB) approach to paying for health and care services. Developed...

Labour issues fresh warning over declining access to GP services

07.08.17: Analysis of data on GP services by the Labour Party has revealed a growing crisis of accessibility, as millions of patients across the country have worse access to their doctor than they did five years ago. A major doctors’ group ha...

Unlocking the benefits of age-friendly cities

04.08.17: Stefanie Buckner, Calum Mattocks and Louise Lafortune from the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, alongside Melanie Rimmer from the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, and Daniel Pope and Nigel Bruce from the...

BMA ‘deeply concerned’ about CEP plans to slash £500m from 13 areas

28.07.17: Doctors have today warned that ‘secret’ plans for severe cuts that could extend waiting times, reduce access to services and merge or close hospitals are being considered by the government. The BMA has said that the capped expen...

GM to develop innovative app designed to curb A&E pressures

27.07.17: An innovative measure designed to stop people unnecessarily going to A&E is currently in development by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP). GMHSCP explained that an app and website was in development that...

Over 100 million patients facing week-long GP waits by 2022

24.07.17: Patients will wait longer than a week to see a GP or practice nurse more than 100 million times by 2022, doctors have today warned. Figures released by the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) have shown that if current trends of increasing demand a...

Time to heed the winter warning from the frontline

19.07.17: As we head into the peak of summer most people will be thinking sunbeds rather than hospital beds. But as a new report by NHS Providers indicates, trusts need to start planning and investing now or risk serious pressures when winter bites, write...

Community pharmacy: a vital link

27.06.17: Adam Irvine, chief executive of Greater Manchester Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC), explains how, unlike many sustainability and transformation plan (STP) areas, community pharmacy has an active voice in all the region’s key forums. ...

A hub for healthy communities

23.06.17: Mark Robinson, New NHS Alliance pharmacy lead, discusses why pharmacy is at the heart of healthy living in communities – and explains how pharmacists can play a wider role in supporting the objectives of the new Health Creation Manifesto. ...

Anticoagulation innovation: enabling self-test via a new app

24.05.17: Around 1.25 million[1] anticoagulation patients in the UK can now access the first truly integrated self-care solution – available to 2,700 INRstar NHS locations across the UK with significant potential cost savings for CCGs. Lum...

Despite major slowdown efforts, emergency admissions still hit record high

11.05.17: The fact that the number of emergency admissions to hospital in March this year was the highest ever recorded in a single calendar month is a cause for concern when there is substantial effort across the board to slow the growth of these admissi...

Major £27m Manchester hospital merger plans still carry ‘inherent risk’

03.05.17: Plans worth £27.2m to integrate services between three Manchester hospitals and allow care to be better optimised for patients still have serious risk attached to it, a report has stated. In the document released last week by the GM H...

A third of emergency cancer patients don’t see GP before diagnosis

25.04.17: Over a third of cancer patients diagnosed as an emergency in England did not see their GP beforehand, a survey published in the British Journal of Medical Practice has today revealed. Research funded by the charity Cancer Research UK analys...

‘Labyrinthine’ health system slowing progress of HIV treatment

25.04.17: Progress being made to meet the needs of HIV sufferers is being held back by an overly complex system, a report has today revealed. The research conducted by think tank the King’s Fund, called ‘The future of HIV services in Engl...