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The decision to conduct a listening exercise for the Health and Social Care Bill creates an opportunity to revisit the problems the Bill is intended to address.
The environmental impact of everyday things can come as some surprise. Chris Naylor examines the environmental impact of the NHS.
John Appleby asks if the NHS will be getting a real increase each year, as promised, over the next four years of the Spending Review or not.
There has been much debate over GPs potentially making a profit out of health care budgets as result of GP commissioning. Are we ready to allow these profits?
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How good is the quality of general practice in England? An independent panel commissioned by the Fund provided an answer to this question this morning.
Is the nation being nudged or shoved into making better health choices? What can we learn from the government's Tobacco Control Plan and the Responsibility Deal?
Are referral management centres in line with national policy on free choice of elective care and the principles of co-operation and competition?
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Is the Department of Health's large-scale evaluation necessary to support the need for telehealth and telecare?
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Could the situation in maternity care be improved if maternity services changed the way they use their current workforce? Natasha Curry explores in our blog.
Chris Ham visited Intermountain Healthcare to see what makes it one of the most admired health care systems in the US and to discover what the NHS could learn.
One of the biggest challenges to GP consortia is breaking out of the mindset that all private sector initiatives are to be avoided, says Paul Zollinger-Read.
Lisa Weaks announces the ten winners of the 2011 GSK IMPACT Awards and explains why the awards are even more important as financial cuts bite.
Public spending must be cut to create the right conditions to deliver growth and innovation in the private sector. But how will this affect health and wellbeing?
Debate about competition in the NHS is often polarised between those who are opposed to private sector involvement in the NHS and those who think the NHS needs to be broken up.
In light of the Health Service Ombudsman's recent report, Jocelyn Cornwell examines ways to improve NHS care, including intentional nurse rounds.
If the government’s new mental health strategy is to have any force behind it, mental health needs to be fully reflected in the outcomes framework.
After a bad experience of airline customer service, Bev Fitzsimons reflects on how similar an experience patients may face with health care providers.
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At a time when the health service is under pressure to improve quality with fewer resources, new technologies are being carefully scrutinised.
The NHS is already implementing radical changes to commissioning, but GP consortia are not commissioning services yet: what should health care providers do in the meantime?
Andrew Lansley has invoked our relatively poor cancer outcomes as part of his justification for health reform. But just how bad are we at treating cancer?