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Clinical leaders need to bring their experience to service re-design

Anna Moore reflects on how medical leaders can help to develop new models of care and integrate services around the needs of patients.

By Anna Moore - 17 December 2015

Discrimination and NHS staff: stepping bravely into the grey

Mandip Kaur asks how we can have open and honest conversations about difference and what it is like to be discriminated against.

By Mandip Randhawa - 16 December 2015

Using patient feedback to drive improvement

Joni Jabbal looks at what enables NHS acute trusts to take data from inpatient surveys, understand it, work with it, and use it to improve patient experience overall.

By Joni Jabbal - 10 December 2015

NHS vanguards: redesigning the aeroplane in flight

Will vanguards be able to make significant changes to the configuration of local health and care systems, while sustaining existing services in a difficult environment, with limited spare cash and growing service pressures?

By Ben Collins - 8 December 2015

Do the public still trust doctors and nurses?

Do the public still trust doctors and nurses to deliver high-quality care and put patients, interests first, or could high-profile failings and inspection results have contributed to a change in public opinion?

By Anna Charles - 7 December 2015

Assessing demand and supply in general practice

Beccy Baird shares her views on the progress of a project that will collect detailed evidence around the changes in activity in general practice over the past five years.

By Beccy Baird - 2 December 2015

Allied health professionals are critical to new models of care

David Oliver considers the role allied health professionals will have in meeting the challenges facing our health and social care systems and in delivering the new care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view.

By David Oliver - 1 December 2015

Sharing experience with aspiring medical leaders

In the first of a series of guest blogs on clinical leadership, Jonathan Fielden shares some insight into his personal philosophy and on his approach to medical leadership - and life.

By Jonathan Fielden - 26 November 2015

System leaders and patient leaders: learning from a new relationship

What does a positive and effective patient leader/system leader relationship look like, how does it develop and what makes it work? David Sgorbati looks at what we can learn from how these relationships form.

By David Sgorbati - 23 November 2015

What not to do to stay in budget

With the NHS overspend running at £1.62 billion for the first half of the year, what are the options available to trusts struggling to stay in budget?

By John Appleby - 20 November 2015

Learning from others: devolved governance in the Australian state of Victoria

The health care system in Victoria, Australia, delivers good results compared with other states, but there are still areas where improvements could be made.

By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 18 November 2015

NHS sustainability: there aren’t always more fish in the sea

The NHS needs to effectively manage its common resources more money and greater efficiency won't be enough.

By Hugh Alderwick - 16 November 2015

Devolution – silver bullet or Swiss cheese?

Health has found itself caught up in government's latest big idea. But what does devolution really mean for the NHS?

By Helen McKenna - 12 November 2015

Delayed transfers of care: join the queue

Delayed transfers of care, where patients are ready to return home or transfer to another form of care but still occupy a hospital bed, are a hot topic of discussion right now. So what does the latest data tell us?

By James Thompson, David Maguire - 9 November 2015

Social care: a future we don’t yet know

Ahead of the Spending Review, Richard Humphries and John Appleby look at the data to examine the likely fall in social care spending.

By Richard Humphries, John Appleby - 8 November 2015

Does the NHS need more ratings?

Last week, Jeremy Hunt announced the government's plans to introduce Ofsted-style ratings for CCGs, to help fill what he called the transparency gap in the NHS. But are more ratings really what the NHS needs?

By Hugh Alderwick - 6 November 2015

The NHS, the Spending Review and George Osborne

None of the choices that George Osborne faces are easy, but there should be no doubt about the implications for the public and politicians of an NHS unable to balance its budget in the face of rising demands.

By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 5 November 2015

Recognising the experience of BME staff: a reason to hope for better

While there is still much more to do to achieve equality for those from diverse backgrounds who aspire to leadership roles in health and care, there is reason for hope, says Vijaya Nath.

By Vijaya Nath - 29 October 2015

The story of us: our relationship with patients, service users and the public

Becky Seale shares the story of The King's Fund's new and still emerging relationship with patients, service users and citizens, how it has developed so far and where it might go in the future.

By Becky Seale - 29 October 2015

Safe staffing in the NHS comes at a cost

When the Care Quality Commission suggested in its recent State of Care report that safer, better care does not necessarily cost more the inclusion of the word necessarily was important, says Helen McKenna.

By Helen McKenna - 26 October 2015

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