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2nd February 2012
The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
1st February 2012 | Comments: 7
Chris Ham puts forward the argument that the complexity and importance of the issues at stake cannot be reduced to the simple question, are you for or against the Bill?
27th January 2012 | Comments: 6
Chris Naylor considers the potential loss of managerial talent as new designs for the NHS Commissioning Board are revealed.
26th January 2012 | Comments: 3
Lara Sonola asks if clinicians used data to improve clinical practice and drive efficiency, could a little change help the NHS in a big way?
23rd January 2012 | Comments: 2
David Buck asks whether the government should be looking towards Scotland and considering minimum pricing on alcohol.
20th January 2012 | Comments: 6
With the Royal College of Nursing announcing their opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill recently, Chris Ham considers the next steps for the health reforms.
19th January 2012 | Comments: 1
James Thompson examines the data on median hospital waiting times and targets in our latest data briefing.
12th January 2012 | Comments: 4
Primary care must be at the heart of delivering integrated care; in his blog, Chris Ham looks at the changes needed in general practice to achieve this goal.
10th January 2012 | Comments: 17
While Jocelyn Cornwell welcomes a commitment to hourly nursing rounds, will the introduction of new measurements just increase bureaucracy in patient care?
4th January 2012 | Comments: 5
Paul Zollinger-Read considers whether it's the size of clinical commissioning groups that counts, or their ability to collaborate.
31st December 2011
With the pressures on A&E, Richard Humphries explains that it's the frail elderly patients that remain in hospital beds that we should be more concerned about.
22nd December 2011 | Comments: 2
Joanna Goodrich considers the impact of NICE's aspirational guidance on the delivery of adult mental health care on patient-centred care.
21st December 2011 | Comments: 1
Candace Imison assesses what evidence is needed for NHS merger decisions.
20th December 2011 | Comments: 2
The report of the National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2011 has put a sharp focus on the care of people with dementia in hospitals.
16th December 2011 | Comments: 1
Francesca Frosini asks how a new measurement of patients treated in non-NHS hospitals will help to assess patient choice.
12th December 2011 | Comments: 2
Chris Ham asks what can clinical commissioning groups learn from medical practices in California.
8th December 2011 | Comments: 3
John Appleby analyses the results of the British Social Attitudes survey to see why our satisfaction with the NHS is so high.
8th December 2011 | Comments: 5
John Clark explains why doctors must become more engaged in NHS leadership as he introduces our new review into leadership.
7th December 2011 | Comments: 8
Nick Goodwin asks if new government strategies and positive results from the Whole Systems Demonstrator trials will encourage new investment into telehealth.
30th November 2011 | Comments: 3
John Appleby's blog about how new inflation estimates affect real spending figures for the NHS.

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