Blog: March 2011
John Appleby asks if the NHS will be getting a real increase each year, as promised, over the next four years of the Spending Review or not.
There has been much debate over GPs potentially making a profit out of health care budgets as result of GP commissioning. Are we ready to allow these profits?
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How good is the quality of general practice in England? An independent panel commissioned by the Fund provided an answer to this question this morning.
Is the nation being nudged or shoved into making better health choices? What can we learn from the government's Tobacco Control Plan and the Responsibility Deal?
Are referral management centres in line with national policy on free choice of elective care and the principles of co-operation and competition?
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Is the Department of Health's large-scale evaluation necessary to support the need for telehealth and telecare?
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Could the situation in maternity care be improved if maternity services changed the way they use their current workforce? Natasha Curry explores in our blog.
Chris Ham visited Intermountain Healthcare to see what makes it one of the most admired health care systems in the US and to discover what the NHS could learn.
One of the biggest challenges to GP consortia is breaking out of the mindset that all private sector initiatives are to be avoided, says Paul Zollinger-Read.