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While demands on accident and emergency departments have always received great attention, Robert Royce highlights that many are still struggling to cope.
Jocelyn Cornwell gives her advice to non-executive directors following the Francis Inquiry report.
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National Voices’ narrative for integrated care is a helpful first step in providing local health and social care system leaders with a set of principles for ‘what good looks like’, says Nick Goodwin.
Will NHS leaders of the future adopt similar leadership approaches to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher or to Birgitte Nyborg, the fictional lead character in Danish political drama series Borgen?
While long-term trends in delayed transfers of care might be reducing, our latest quarterly monitoring report revealed some concerns from NHS finance directors. James Thompson explores the figures in his blog.
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What does today's announcement from Jeremy Hunt mean for social care funding? Richard Humphries considers the key points in his new blog.
Anna Dixon gives her reaction to the recommendations set out in the long-awaited Francis Inquiry report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Now that total public health allocations to local authorities has been decided, it’s time to move beyond the debate on the reforms to what matters: assuring that the resources really do improve the public’s health and reduce health inequalities
Andy Burnham’s speech to launch Labour’s health and care policy review was strong on principles but left many questions unanswered.
Revalidation has been a popular topic in our leadership work with medical directors, GPs and consultants – so what have we learnt so far?
Nigel Edwards concludes our look at the relocation of care, considering whether shifting care closer to home is always the best solution.
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The focus of the Royal College of Surgeon’s new report on engagement with the public on service change is very welcome, but will it translate into a genuinely different dialogue at a local level?
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The NHS Commissioning Board has issued its ‘planning guidance’ to the 211 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that are to take control of local budgets from April. So what message does it send to CCGs?
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It will be increasingly impossible to duck the big questions about what kind of health and care system we are willing to fund, how this can be achieved and where the money comes from.
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In the past few days, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have come several steps closer to taking control of £65 billion of NHS spending.
The personal health budgets evaluation, published recently by the Department of Health, contains encouraging news for those who believe that giving patients greater choice, flexibility and control can improve their quality of life.
We've had an incredible response to our debate on the changing patient – with views from politicians, health and social care professionals and, most importantly, patients themselves.
The NHS Commissioning Board, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and providers need to be held to account, with plaudits if they excel, and consequences if they fall short of expected standards.
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Having spent the first half of the Parliament legislating for radical changes to the organisation of the NHS, the government now needs to focus on the mundane but much more important challenge of implementing and executing the service changes on which its record will ultimately depend.
The government has announced that the Public Health Sub-Committee is being done away with. But did it have the potential to challenge the rest of Whitehall on the public health impacts of their policies?