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The variability in the quality of neurological services is clear. Catherine Foot asks if national strategies solve the problem.
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?
Chris Naylor considers the potential loss of managerial talent as new designs for the NHS Commissioning Board are revealed.
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?
David Buck asks whether the government should be looking towards Scotland and considering minimum pricing on alcohol.
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.
James Thompson examines the data on median hospital waiting times and targets in our latest data briefing.
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.
While Jocelyn Cornwell welcomes a commitment to hourly nursing rounds, will the introduction of new measurements just increase bureaucracy in patient care?
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Paul Zollinger-Read considers whether it's the size of clinical commissioning groups that counts, or their ability to collaborate.
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.
Joanna Goodrich considers the impact of NICE's aspirational guidance on the delivery of adult mental health care on patient-centred care.
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Candace Imison assesses what evidence is needed for NHS merger decisions.
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.
Francesca Frosini asks how a new measurement of patients treated in non-NHS hospitals will help to assess patient choice.
Chris Ham asks what can clinical commissioning groups learn from medical practices in California.
John Appleby analyses the results of the British Social Attitudes survey to see why our satisfaction with the NHS is so high.
John Clark explains why doctors must become more engaged in NHS leadership as he introduces our new review into leadership.
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Nick Goodwin asks if new government strategies and positive results from the Whole Systems Demonstrator trials will encourage new investment into telehealth.
John Appleby's blog about how new inflation estimates affect real spending figures for the NHS.