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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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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.
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By Mandip Randhawa - 16 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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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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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.
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By Jonathan Fielden - 26 November 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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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.
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By Hugh Alderwick - 16 November 2015
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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.
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By Vijaya Nath - 29 October 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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Are we supporting or sacrificing NHS staff?

With financial pressures at unmanageable levels, increasing demands and great uncertainty, staff are exposed to the violence of a perfect and continuous storm.
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By Michael West, Donna Willis - 22 October 2015
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Building healthier accountable communities

Nicola Walsh reflects on three important messages that emerged from our 2015 integrated care summit.
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By Nicola Walsh - 21 October 2015
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Simon Stevens' vision for the NHS: welcome but challenging to deliver

In his keynote address at our annual integrated care summit, Simon Stevens gave what was arguably his most important speech since he took up post. His speech contained three big messages.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 14 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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Moving from integrated care to integrated population health systems

While integrating care services is part of the journey to a transformed health system, it is not the destination. Efforts to integrate care have rarely encompassed the broader health of local populations and the impact of the wider determinants of health.
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By David Buck - 30 September 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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NHS mergers: putting all our baskets into one egg?

What can be done to improve the quality of decision-making on NHS mergers, and can the tide of unsuccessful mergers be stemmed?
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By Ben Collins, Michael West - 24 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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High-quality health care: do Deming or die

Vijaya Nath visited Intermountain Healthcare to find out how they are able to deliver low-cost, high-quality health care. She found a culture of clinical integration and quality improvement inspired by the work of quality theorist W Edwards Deming.
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By Vijaya Nath - 10 September 2015
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Is the NHS delivering enough things right?

Misuse occurs in the NHS when health services are poorly delivered. So how big is the problem of preventable harm in health care?
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By Hugh Alderwick - 9 September 2015
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What impact do accountable care organisations have on care quality?

Although the ambitions of the care models in the US may resonate with our intentions here, we would be wise to learn from the early experiences of those who went before us, says Rachael Addicott.
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By Rachael Smithson - 24 August 2015
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