Blog: 2010
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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.
Much of the conversation at the NHS Confederation annual conference has been about productivity. How will the NHS cope with increasing demand?
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As expected, George Osborne’s first budget set out a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, but how will the NHS be affected?
GP budget-holding will play a major part in the coalition's plans for the NHS. What lessons should be drawn from previous attempts to involve GPs in commissioning?
The Secretary of State's revisions to the 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework have been published today and, as expected, the government is scaling back access targets.
General practice lies at the heart of the new coalition government's plans for reform of the NHS in England.
Candace Imison considers the future for the NHS as the coalition government begins to form its health policies and reforms for the NHS.
What happens when we look at public money in terms of where it's spent instead of which organisations spend it? Richard Humphries explores the Total Place initiative
Ruth Robertson questions whether government plans to empower patients to choose their hospital will lead to improvements in services.
In an area where policy has frequently feared to go, NICE has provided practical solutions in its new guidance to alcohol consumption.
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John Appleby compares the words found in the coalition government's health and social care policy statements and then in the Health Bill itself with our wordle.
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Anna Dixon asks whether the Health Bill will support the Conservatives’ ambitions to replace a ‘top down approach' with devolution of power to doctors and patients.
The frontline staff we have spoken to as part of the Point of Care programme are telling us that the financial pressure of NHS reforms is already upon them.
Patient demands and the desire to improve the quality of NHS services will outstrip NHS funding growth to the value of around £21 billion by 2013/14.
We pull together the health policies of the Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos pre-election, to see the how they could affect future health care policy.
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Yesterday's historic agreement means we have a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in power. But what will this mean for health care policy and the NHS?
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Last week's GSK IMPACT awards showcased the very best in third sector provision of health and social care services. (Blog, Mark Jennings, 4 May 2010)
This week's Institute for Fiscal Studies' report drew attention to the political manifestos, but contained less information about how they would balance public finances.
Over the past few months, there has been increasing talk about concepts such as 'employee ownership'. But would the 'John Lewis model' work for the NHS?