Blog: July 2010
The scale of the challenge facing NHS leaders in pushing through the major reforms outlined in the recent White Paper, with current financial constraints, is unprecedented.
The government's plans for NHS reform place a great deal of power in the hands of the proposed NHS Commissioning Board, but will this help to improve quality of care?
The coalition government is promising real-terms growth for the NHS, but in practice this will be very small. So how should the NHS respond to this new world?
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The coalition wants England to achieve the best health outcomes in Europe and deliver year-on-year productivity savings – could reconfiguration help to achieve this?
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Having previously studied integrated delivery systems in the United States, Chris Ham supports Andrew Lansley's comments on integrated health systems.
Information is destined to have a key role in the new vision for the NHS. But will it help to give patients choices and to increase public accountability?
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If the proposals set out in the White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence’ are implemented in full, the changes will have far-reaching consequences for the NHS.
The King's Fund believes the health White Paper will need to answer some difficult questions if it is to offer a credible plan for the future.
Quality accounts are intended to achieve two things - to increase boards' focus on quality, and to provide greater public accountability for quality.
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The spending cuts announced last week left the health care budget intact, but there were no such promises for social care. What is the impact on wellbeing?
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Over the past two years, the world class commissioning programme has attempted to measure the quality of commissioning and encourage improvement. The results of the second annual assessment, due to be published in July, are expected to show that PCTs have made improvements since 2009.