Blog: June 2012
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Looking back on the conference, Anna Dixon considers outstanding reform issues, including the difficult decisions that must be made around hospital reconfiguration.
Despite the coalition’s pledge in its programme for government that it recognised the urgency of reform, almost a year has elapsed since Dilnot reported.
Chris Naylor asks what role CCGs can play to stop people with mental health losing out in the NHS.
Lean is a methodology developed by Toyota which aims to improve flow while minimising waste. But why is it so difficult to apply to health care?
Chris Naylor looks at what the future shape of support arrangements for clinical commissioning groups will look like.
Why has the British public's satisfaction with the way the NHS runs taken a nose dive in 2011 – falling from 70 per cent (its highest ever level) to 58 per cent?
NHS hospitals will soon be required to ask patients whether they would want a friend or relative to be treated there. But will this make hospitals raise their game?
Angela Coulter responds to the Department of Health's new consultation on 'No decision about me, without me'.