Think differently blog
We are asking guest contributors to provide interesting and challenging perspectives on health and social care in the future. We will post a new blog each week, and invite you to give your views too.
Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, explains how appropriate housing for older people could improve health outcomes and deliver savings.
In a blog for our Time to Think Differently programme, Hugh Reeve, a GP and Clinical Chair of Cumbria CCG, explains why changes to primary care must start with the basics.
Paul Corrigan kicks off our second Time to Think Differently debate by looking at how the current model of hospital care could and should change.
We had an incredible response to our debate on the changing patient – with views from politicians, health and social care professionals and, most importantly, patients themselves.
Finbarr Martin, Consultant Geriatrician at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, argues that we need to challenge our assumption about how best to meet the needs of people with long-term conditions.
Ben Page, Chief Executive at Ipsos MORI, gives the facts on current public expectations of the NHS and how this is likely to change in the future.
Christina Patterson, a patient and columnist at The Independent, makes a powerful case for what patients should expect from health services in the future.
Time to Think Differently is a new programme of work aimed at stimulating debate about the changes needed for the NHS and social care to meet the challenges of the future.