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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.
Quality accounts are intended to achieve two things - to increase boards' focus on quality, and to provide greater public accountability for quality.
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The spending cuts announced last week left the health care budget intact, but there were no such promises for social care. What is the impact on wellbeing?
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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.
Much of the conversation at the NHS Confederation annual conference has been about productivity. How will the NHS cope with increasing demand?
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As expected, George Osborne’s first budget set out a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, but how will the NHS be affected?
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.
General practice lies at the heart of the new coalition government's plans for reform of the NHS in England.
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
Ruth Robertson questions whether government plans to empower patients to choose their hospital will lead to improvements in services.
In an area where policy has frequently feared to go, NICE has provided practical solutions in its new guidance to alcohol consumption.
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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.
The frontline staff we have spoken to as part of the Point of Care programme are telling us that the financial pressure of NHS reforms is already upon them.
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.