Blog tagged as: NHS reform
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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.
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At a time of rapid policy change in health care, there is a thirst for international insight: so what can other countries teach us about health system reform?
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?
The decision to conduct a listening exercise for the Health and Social Care Bill creates an opportunity to revisit the problems the Bill is intended to address.
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?
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?
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.
Public spending must be cut to create the right conditions to deliver growth and innovation in the private sector. But how will this affect health and wellbeing?
Debate about competition in the NHS is often polarised between those who are opposed to private sector involvement in the NHS and those who think the NHS needs to be broken up.
If the government’s new mental health strategy is to have any force behind it, mental health needs to be fully reflected in the outcomes framework.