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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.
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By Anna Moore - 17 December 2015
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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?
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By Ben Collins - 8 December 2015
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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.
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By Beccy Baird - 2 December 2015
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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.
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By David Oliver - 1 December 2015
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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.
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By David Sgorbati - 23 November 2015
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District councils: time to waken the sleeping giants of public health?

David Buck on district councils and why their role in improving the health of their citizens is less well known and recognised than it should be.
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By David Buck - 19 November 2015
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Transforming mental health services – at what cost?

Helen Gilburt asks is it time for an honest conversation about the impact of cost-saving measures on the quality of care in mental health services?
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By Helen Gilburt - 12 November 2015
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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.
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By Richard Humphries, John Appleby - 8 November 2015
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Improving mental health outcomes for young people: the perspective of a GP trainee

Young people, and their families, are extremely able to express what they need and have done so clearly. It is now imperative that providers and commissioners work together to meet those needs, building on the momentum of Future in mind.
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By Preety Das - 5 November 2015
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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.
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By Becky Seale - 29 October 2015
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Will the new GP contract improve care for patients?

The government's proposal for a new contract that gives groups of GPs the opportunity to work more closely with a range of other services is not a bad idea, says Hugh Alderwick.
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By Hugh Alderwick - 12 October 2015
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Improving hospital discharge and intermediate care for older people

Healthwatch England's recent report, Safely home, described in harrowing detail the personal stories of patients who felt that their discharge from hospital was unsupported. It also described patients marooned in acute beds unable to move on. So how can older people's care be improved?
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By David Oliver - 6 October 2015
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Increased demand for care won't be addressed by doing more of the same

With the first anniversary of the NHS five year forward view approaching rapidly, how are new care models developing, and what are the prospects for the future?
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 October 2015
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Should we be worried about CCG conflicts of interest?

Are conflicts of interest affecting the services patients receive? Or is this inherent feature of clinical commissioning being managed appropriately through common-sense decision-making?
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By Ruth Robertson - 29 September 2015
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We need to talk about social care providers

Amid growing concern that most NHS providers are sliding into deficit, arguably we should be even more worried about social care providers, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 18 September 2015
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Local Healthwatch: progress, promise and power

The coalition government outlined a framework for a network of local Healthwatch organisations, with the aim of creating a credible, representative and influential public voice in the system. So how have these organisations been developing?
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By Phoebe Dunn - 16 September 2015
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Patient involvement and empowerment

Kirsty Morrison look through our digital archive to explore the Fund's work on patient involvement.
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By Kirsty Morrison - 15 September 2015
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Inequalities in life expectancy over time: the importance of place and devolution

Tackling persistent inequalities requires consistent, sustainable action and intervention, which in turn requires stable, committed system leadership with a focus on population health systems.
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By David Buck - 20 August 2015
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What have we learnt in the government’s first 100 days?

Chris Ham gives his assessment of the new government’s health policy.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 17 August 2015
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Cuts to public health spending: the falsest of false economies

Back in June, with no prior warning, the Treasury announced that the 2015/16 public health grant to local authorities would be reduced by £200 million. Last week, the Department of Health finally released the consultation on these ‘in-year savings’. So why the delay?
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By David Buck - 6 August 2015
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