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Telemedicine in cancer management

11 Feb 2011
Susan Royer
The impact of telehealth on cancer patients living in remote areas can be significant, offering them a virtual connection with health professionals & other patients.

GPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying

6 Jan 2011
Chris Ham
As the main primary medical care providers GPs and their teams are in a unique position to use commissioning to develop new models of care in the community.

Explaining variation in referral from primary to secondary care: cohort study

1 Dec 2010
Dulcie McBride, Sarah Hardoon, Kate Walters, Stuart Gilmour
To what extent does referral from primary care vary by age, sex, and social deprivation and do any socio-demographic variations in referral differ? This study investigates.

Kent telehealth pilot study

2 Nov 2010
Mike Clark
Mike Clark describes the programme, set up by Kent County Council, to help 250 people with long-term conditions to live independently using telehealth.

Big Society: Political philosophy and implications for health policy

26 Oct 2010
Beccy Ashton
An overview of the Big Society and what it means for health care in England, this briefing raises a number of questions and issues, including nudging to improve public health, community empowerment and patient power.

Impact of the health White Paper: what do doctors think?

25 Oct 2010
The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk have commissioned a survey to find out how doctors feel about the plans set out in the coalition government's health White Paper.

How might older people and disabled people be using assisted living services in 2030?

20 Aug 2010
Shilpa Ross
A recent study commissioned by Ofcom examined the long-term requirements of key sectors for communication services in the United Kingdom.

GP-led commissioning: quality is key

23 Jun 2010
Nick Goodwin
The flagship policy of GP-led commissioning will transfer real budgets to groups of practices and signals political support for change towards the creation of larger GP-led clinical collectives with more direct accountability.

The experience of implementing choice at point of referral: a comparison of the Netherlands and England

24 May 2010
Anna Dixon, Ruth Robertson, Roland Bal
This paper compares the implementation of electronic referral systems in England ('Choose and Book') and in a region of the Netherlands ('ZorgDomein').

Polyclinics threat to surgeries: Much will depend on how changes are handled

18 Jun 2008
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson looks at the most controversial aspect of the NHS Next Stage Review - the plans for polyclinics.

If Whitehall is to relinquish its control of primary care trusts, this must leave a democratic vacuum to be filled

8 Apr 2008
Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis looks at the wider political implications of increasing the local accountability of PCTs.

Patient choice in general practice: the implications of patient satisfaction surveys

2 Apr 2008
Anna Dixon, Julian Le Grand, Ruth Robertson
Ruth Robertson, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand consider the factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and how this may drive patients' choice of practice.

Quality in primary care commissioning

1 Nov 2007
Richard Lewis, Stephen Gillam
This article discusses the policy background and development of primary care commissioning and discusses potential measures for maintaining and improving practice-based commissioning as well as the quality of the commissioning process itself.

Interventions that change clinician behaviour: mapping the literature

27 Nov 2006
Ruth Robertson, Karen Jochelson
The King's Fund was commissioned to carry out this literature review on clinician behaviour on behalf of NICE.

Who wants patient choice?

13 Dec 2005
John Appleby, Arturo Alvarez-Rosete
John Appleby and Arturo Alvarez-Rosete say that the latest British Social Attitudes survey reveals some interesting - and perhaps surprising - views about choice in health care.

NHS foundation trusts

9 Jul 2005
Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis argues that the Healthcare Commission's review offers something for both proponents and detractors.

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