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Paybills and planned care targeted in huge savings drive – Health Service Journal
NHS 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’s provider sector deficit.

NHS providers on course for £500m deficit, says Mackey – Health Service Journal
NHS providers are on course to finish 2016-17 £500m in the red, despite national rules requiring the sector to eliminate its deficit this year, Jim Mackey has revealed.

Integrating care in Southwark and Lambeth: what we did and how we did it –  Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC)
SLIC 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 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 ‘Framework for Success’ as a resource for others undertaking similar programmes of transformation.

Rebooting the cap: improving protection from catastrophic care costs – Strategic Society Centre
The government has postponed the ‘capped cost’ reforms to care funding in England until April 2020. Following this announcement, social care campaigners have questioned whether the ‘capped cost’ reforms will be postponed again before 2020, or scrapped completely. This report 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 ‘capped cost’ model, such as the risk of unintended consequences.

Supplier chosen for Carter efficiency league table – Health Service Journal
A supplier has been chosen to provide the league table ranking NHS trusts on their efficiency.

New English language test requirements – NMC
NMC to amend English language test requirements for applicants trained outside the UK

Turbo charging integrated care – Dr Phillip Bennett-Richards – NHS England Blog
The 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, the chair of the Tower Hamlets Together vanguard discusses how they are using the national support offered to boost their efforts:

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt could bid for Conservative leadership – GP Online
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt could be set to join the race to succeed prime minister David Cameron as leader of the Conservative party.