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Chris Ham's blog about the importance of good management and leadership in the NHS.
Bev Fitzsimons, asks whether a new patient and family-centred care programme can help improve patients' experience.
James Thompson explores the figures behind this year's NHS redundancies in his data blog.
As a new Commonwealth Fund survey reflects a positive light on the NHS, Chris Ham asks why we are still moving forward so quickly with health reforms?
While government ministers seem enthused by plans to allow patients to manage their own health budgets, Angela Coulter asks if we should be exploring other options.
Anna Dixon explains why it will only be possible to deliver productivity improvements in the NHS by using human as well as financial resources differently.
Anna Dixon discusses the need to rethink how we commission and contract with primary care if the ambitions of integrated care are to be realised.
As we await the results of the WSDAN project, Nick Goodwin considers what else is needed to support new technologies in telehealth and telecare.
As the NHS Commissioning Board commences a period of shadow running, Nick Goodwin asks whether changes to clinical commissioning are simply reinventing the wheel.
David Buck questions whether a 'fat tax' would help or hinder the government's attempts to curb obesity in England.
In her blog, Veena Raleigh is doubtful that the new hospital mortality rate indictor, SHMI, will provide the definitive measure of a hospital's quality.
Drawing on experience from our Point of Care programme, Jocelyn Cornwell explores the options to improving the poor results on care shown in the CQC report.
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After the CQC report on quality of care, Anna Dixon asks if acute hospitals are providing the right care for people with dementia.
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Anna Dixon asks if ever-increasing specialisation in acute care is benefitting patients in her new blog.
Using a personal experience of emergency surgery, Candace Imison makes the case for hospital reconfiguration in her blog.
Richard Humphries asks whether the political momentum can be found to carry through Dilnot's suggestions for social care funding in England.
Anna Dixon asks what lessons should the coalition government learn from New Labour's NHS reforms?
Chris Ham argues that as the NHS is facing growing demands from an ageing population, clinicians and organisations must work together to meet the needs of patients.
Chris Ham examines how to reconfigure hospital services to improve the quality and safety of health care.
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Sarah Jonas asks what effect will large scale cuts to local authority social care budgets have on child and adolescent mental health services.