Blog: February 2012

29th February 2012 | Comments: 6
Jocelyn Cornwell considers why we need a national framework for patient experience, and why it's so important that we have one now.
27th February 2012
While opposition to the Bill has got louder, there has been relatively little debate about the new powers for Monitor and what they will mean in practice.
23rd February 2012 | Comments: 2
Visiting Fellow, Claire Perry gives us an insight into her previous roles in the NHS and the examines the issues surrounding health care in London.
20th February 2012 | Comments: 18
As the Prime Minister's summit on the NHS reforms provides a new focus for debate, Chris Ham considers whether inertia is a bigger threat to the NHS than privatisation.
16th February 2012 | Comments: 3
With huge varieties in spending across the country, David Buck considers the role ACRA must play in distributing budgets for public health.
9th February 2012 | Comments: 2
As policy-makers focus on how integrated care can become a reality in the UK, integration of mental and physical health care should be a key part of the debate.
8th February 2012 | Comments: 1
With the government's response to the Dilnot report on social care funding weeks away, will the HSC's new report set out a compelling case for social care change?
2nd February 2012
The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
1st February 2012 | Comments: 7
Chris Ham puts forward the argument that the complexity and importance of the issues at stake cannot be reduced to the simple question, are you for or against the Bill?