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24th July 2012 | Comments: 1
If the government’s integration framework encourages innovations at scale and pace, England may yet steal a march on Scotland in the development of integrated care.
17th July 2012 | Comments: 16
There will be important differences between CCGs and PCTs. But in terms of the population size they cover, are they looking increasingly similar?
12th July 2012 | Comments: 4
Following Nicholas Timmins's book on the story of NHS reform, Anna Dixon looks at the events that led to the Act reaching the statute book.
11th July 2012 | Comments: 2
Nick Goodwin argues that unless we are prepared to invest in care co-ordination it will continue to be on the fringes of activity rather than being the main event.
5th July 2012 | Comments: 7
Current debates about the future of hospitals and bringing care closer to home echo those of the 1970s. So will anything be different this time round?
2nd July 2012 | Comments: 4
David Buck looks at how public health funding allocations will be decided with the help of the Advisory Council of Resource Allocation (ACRA).
28th June 2012 | Comments: 6
Looking back on the conference, Anna Dixon considers outstanding reform issues, including the difficult decisions that must be made around hospital reconfiguration.
25th June 2012 | Comments: 4
Despite the coalition’s pledge in its programme for government that it recognised the urgency of reform, almost a year has elapsed since Dilnot reported.
20th June 2012 | Comments: 13
Chris Naylor asks what role CCGs can play to stop people with mental health losing out in the NHS.
19th June 2012 | Comments: 17
Lean is a methodology developed by Toyota which aims to improve flow while minimising waste. But why is it so difficult to apply to health care?
14th June 2012 | Comments: 3
Chris Naylor looks at what the future shape of support arrangements for clinical commissioning groups will look like.
12th June 2012 | Comments: 13
Why has the British public's satisfaction with the way the NHS runs taken a nose dive in 2011 – falling from 70 per cent (its highest ever level) to 58 per cent?
7th June 2012 | Comments: 19
NHS hospitals will soon be required to ask patients whether they would want a friend or relative to be treated there. But will this make hospitals raise their game?
1st June 2012 | Comments: 15
Angela Coulter responds to the Department of Health's new consultation on 'No decision about me, without me'.
29th May 2012 | Comments: 5
Anna Dixon discusses whether asking patients what care they wanted could be a much simpler solution towards making savings.
24th May 2012 | Comments: 7
If the NHS is to address financial challenges, while improving patient care, leaders will need to balance the pace-setting style that predominates among top leaders.
21st May 2012
Will the Department of Health’s long-awaited Information Strategy transform health and social care information as we know it today?
16th May 2012 | Comments: 13
Chris Ham argues that If integrated care is to emerge at scale and pace, the NHS needs more positive deviants.
15th May 2012 | Comments: 11
What did the participants who ventured to Kaiser in our recent study tour learn from the experience?
9th May 2012 | Comments: 6
Richard Humphries discusses the government’s forthcoming social care White Paper and the final piece of the jigsaw – Andrew Dilnot’s report on how care is funded.

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