Blog tagged as: NHS reform
Public health needs to move out of the lecture hall and into the living room, according to Anne Milton MP. But what role should GPs be playing in public health?
The scale of the challenge facing NHS leaders in pushing through the major reforms outlined in the recent White Paper, with current financial constraints, is unprecedented.
The government's plans for NHS reform place a great deal of power in the hands of the proposed NHS Commissioning Board, but will this help to improve quality of care?
The coalition government is promising real-terms growth for the NHS, but in practice this will be very small. So how should the NHS respond to this new world?
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The coalition wants England to achieve the best health outcomes in Europe and deliver year-on-year productivity savings – could reconfiguration help to achieve this?
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Having previously studied integrated delivery systems in the United States, Chris Ham supports Andrew Lansley's comments on integrated health systems.
Information is destined to have a key role in the new vision for the NHS. But will it help to give patients choices and to increase public accountability?
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If the proposals set out in the White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence’ are implemented in full, the changes will have far-reaching consequences for the NHS.
The King's Fund believes the health White Paper will need to answer some difficult questions if it is to offer a credible plan for the future.
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Over the past two years, the world class commissioning programme has attempted to measure the quality of commissioning and encourage improvement. The results of the second annual assessment, due to be published in July, are expected to show that PCTs have made improvements since 2009.
GP budget-holding will play a major part in the coalition's plans for the NHS. What lessons should be drawn from previous attempts to involve GPs in commissioning?
The Secretary of State's revisions to the 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework have been published today and, as expected, the government is scaling back access targets.
Candace Imison considers the future for the NHS as the coalition government begins to form its health policies and reforms for the NHS.
What happens when we look at public money in terms of where it's spent instead of which organisations spend it? Richard Humphries explores the Total Place initiative
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John Appleby compares the words found in the coalition government's health and social care policy statements and then in the Health Bill itself with our wordle.
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Anna Dixon asks whether the Health Bill will support the Conservatives’ ambitions to replace a ‘top down approach' with devolution of power to doctors and patients.
We pull together the health policies of the Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos pre-election, to see the how they could affect future health care policy.
Patient demands and the desire to improve the quality of NHS services will outstrip NHS funding growth to the value of around £21 billion by 2013/14.
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Yesterday's historic agreement means we have a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in power. But what will this mean for health care policy and the NHS?
This week's Institute for Fiscal Studies' report drew attention to the political manifestos, but contained less information about how they would balance public finances.