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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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ACO

Campaigners hail victory as ‘back door privatisation’ NHS bodies are delayed

  Daily Mirror  – 7 February 2018 NHS campaigners have hailed victory after a reform they claim could be a … Read more

Categories ACO, Integrated care, NATIONAL, National STP, STPs Tags ACO, integrated care, National STP, National STPs

Manchester ACO contract delayed amid fears of ‘unrealistic deadlines’

Delay for Manchester ACO contract amid fears of ‘unrealistic deadlines’ Full story in the HSJ, 30 January 2018 HSJ reports … Read more

Categories ACO, Integrated care, National STP, STPs Tags Accountable Care Organisation, ACO, integrated care, integrated care system, NHS reform, STP 7

Delays and name change for second wave of ‘accountable care systems’

Delays and name change for second wave of ‘accountable care systems’ Full story in The HSJ, 29 January 2018 The … Read more

Categories STPs, ACO, Integrated care, NATIONAL Tags Accountable Care Organisation, Accountable Care Systems, ACO, ACS, Department of Health, integrated care, National STP, National STPs, NHS England, NHS reform

ACO formation put on pause

ACO formation put on pause Full story in the HSJ, 23 January 2018 NHS England and the Department of Health … Read more

Categories STPs, ACO, Integrated care Tags Accountable Care Organisation, ACO, Department of Health, integrated care, Jeremy Hunt, National STP, NHS reform

Dudley ACO contract set back

Full story in the HSJ, 5 January 2018 The procurement to establish a pioneering “accountable care organisation” model in the … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags Accountable Care Organisation, ACO, community health, hospitals, integrated care, NHS reform, STP 16

Legal action over attempts to ‘Americanise’ the NHS

Full story in The Independent, 3 November 2017 Legal action is being taken against Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health over their proposals … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags ACO, CCGs, community health, cuts to services, Department of Health, integrated care, new models of care, NHS reform, STPs

Council ‘at breaking point’ over NHS’s push to accountable care system

Leicester City Council has threatened to raise formal concerns with Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland STP over proposals to evolve into an … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags ACO, ACS, CCGs, hospitals, integrated care, integrated care system, NHS reform, STP 15

Notts STP teams up with Capita to set up accountable care system

A sustainability and transformation partnership in the East Midlands has recruited Capita to help with the creation of its accountable … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags Accountable Care Organisation, ACO, Capita, integrated care, NHS reform, Privatisation, STP 14

‘Megalithic’ changes to health and adult social care agreed

Three years ago the county council formed the East Sussex Better Together programme with clinical commissioning groups, the trust running … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags ACO, community health, integrated care, NHS reform, social care, STP 33, STPs

Simon Stevens names the first ‘accountable care systems’

Simon Stevens has announced the first eight “accountable care systems”, saying they will be given control of up to £450m … Read more

Categories STPs, Integrated care Tags ACO, deficit, integrated care, NHS reform, STP 24, STP 34, STP 4, STP 41, STP 44, STP 9, STP14, STPs
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE