Paybills and planned care targeted in huge savings drive – Health Service Journal<\/strong> NHS providers on course for \u00a3500m deficit, says Mackey – Health Service Journal<\/strong> Integrating care in Southwark and Lambeth: what we did and how we did it –\u00a0 Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC)<\/strong> Rebooting the cap: improving protection from catastrophic care costs – Strategic Society Centre<\/strong> Supplier chosen for Carter efficiency league table – Health Service Journal<\/strong> New English language test requirements – NMC<\/strong> Turbo charging integrated care \u2013 Dr Phillip Bennett-Richards – NHS England Blog<\/strong>
\nNHS trusts have been given a month to produce plans for merging back-office and pathology services with their neighbours, as part of a three-pronged plan to bear down on this year\u2019s provider sector deficit.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS providers are on course to finish 2016-17 \u00a3500m in the red, despite national rules requiring the sector to eliminate its deficit this year, Jim Mackey has revealed.<\/p>\n
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\nSLIC was set up in 2012 as a partnership of commissioners and providers to work together with citizens to improve the value of care in Southwark and Lambeth. This evaluation <\/a>report outlines the achievements of SLIC, highlights its key successes and challenges, and shares lessons learned. It explains how care was integrated in Southwark and Lambeth and includes a \u2018Framework for Success\u2019 as a resource for others undertaking similar programmes of transformation.<\/p>\n
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\nThe government has postponed the \u2018capped cost\u2019 reforms to care funding in England until April 2020. Following this announcement, social care campaigners have questioned whether the \u2018capped cost\u2019 reforms will be postponed again before 2020, or scrapped completely. This report<\/a> explores the options for the government in rebooting the capped cost reforms, arguing that the current pause in implementation presents an opportunity to adapt the reforms to developments in health and social care policy, and address potential downsides to the \u2018capped cost\u2019 model, such as the risk of unintended consequences.<\/p>\n
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\nA supplier has been chosen to provide the league table ranking NHS trusts on their efficiency.<\/p>\n
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\nNMC to amend English language test requirements<\/a> for applicants trained outside the UK<\/p>\n
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\nThe national new care models programme is bringing together local health and care systems as vanguards to radically redesign care for the populations they serve. In the latest of a series of blogs<\/a>, the chair of the Tower Hamlets Together vanguard discusses how they are using the national support offered to boost their efforts:<\/p>\n
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