Blog: March 2011

31st 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.
28th March 2011 | Comments: 17
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?
24th March 2011 | Comments: 7
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.
22nd March 2011 | Comments: 2
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?
18th March 2011 | Comments: 6
Are referral management centres in line with national policy on free choice of elective care and the principles of co-operation and competition?
15th March 2011 | Comments: 4
Is the Department of Health's large-scale evaluation necessary to support the need for telehealth and telecare?
7th March 2011 | Comments: 8
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.
4th March 2011
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.
2nd March 2011 | Comments: 2
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.