Blog tagged as: NHS reform
At this time of tight budgets and organisational restructure, Al Mulley explores the implications of practice variation for the NHS.
The recent public health Command Paper, Healthy lives, healthy people: Update & way forward, was underwhelming in its recommendations, according to David Buck.
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According to The Future Forum, integrated care is integral to the future delivery of health and social care. Nick Goodwin asks if we know what this truly means.
While David Cameron announced public services reform, Anna Dixon says the real challenge is translating them into practice in a service as diverse as the NHS.
John Appleby champions the need to keep improving NHS productivity, even if we decide to spend more on health care in his blog.
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Chris Naylor asks if the NHS Commissioning Board will succeed in liberating NHS workers or is it simply reinventing existing structures.
The new-look Health and Social Care Bill: what are the next steps for clinical commissioning groups?
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Paul Zollinger-Read asks if the pause in the Health and Social Care Bill is welcomed by clinical commissioning groups or do they want to get on with the NHS reforms?
Will the health reforms and the formation of Public Health England help to address health inequalities in England? David Buck investigates in our blog.
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With announced revisions of the NHS reforms, hospital doctors are being given an opportunity to become involved in clinical commissioning.
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Richard Humphries asks, when it comes to health and social care reforms, can a simulation exercise help us deal with the challenges we might face?
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Some opposition to the Health Bill focused on the privatisation of the NHS. Anna Dixon explains what the NHS reforms will truly mean for the private and voluntary sectors.
Should the Health and Social Care Bill be focusing on the reform of GPs as providers instead of on GPs as commissioners? Candace Imison takes a look at the changes to NHS reforms.
Has the government really listened to opinion on the Health and Social Care Bill? And if so, how will any new system of commissioning be held accountable?
With the Department of Health responding to the consultations on 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People' soon the Health Select Committee is looking at public health reforms
NHS leaders, whether commissioners or providers, have to influence others as much as they lead heroically - a model requiring additional skills.
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A year ago, few people would have guessed we would have a coalition of Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. So what has been the impact on reforming the NHS?
NHS waiting times were once again the subject of heated exchanges in the Commons. But as our waiting times tracker shows, it all depends on how you measure it.
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One aspect of the Health and Social Care Bill that has attracted remarkably little controversy is the proposal for health and wellbeing boards. But are they really part of the solution?
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Paul Zollinger-Read considers the many similarities between American medical groups and the proposed GP consortia.
How similar is the Health Select Committee's report to a simulation exercise run by NHS Lincolnshire to illustrate commissioning NHS health services in 2013/14?