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Quality in social care: we need an ear for stories as well as an eye for data

Listening to people’s experience of services – good and bad - is as important to improving quality as crunching the data, writes Simon Bottery.
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By Simon Bottery - 10 December 2019
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Tackling 'imposter syndrome': working with third sector leaders

David Naylor reflects on ‘imposter syndrome’ and considers its impact on third sector leaders and beyond.
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By David Naylor - 19 September 2019
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Primary care networks and community health services: further, faster!

As primary care services come together under the new primary care networks, Richard Murray reviews progress to date and what’s next for general practice, from integration and workforce to technology and the estate.
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By Richard Murray - 5 July 2019
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A two-way street: primary care networks and integrated care systems

As primary care networks and integrated care systems develop, Anna Charles considers how their relationship might evolve to strengthen the voice of primary and community care and join up local services.
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By Anna Charles - 31 May 2019
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Saving lives, supporting communities: The role of volunteers in ambulance services

Volunteers are involved in providing vital frontline care and support to ambulance services. Helen Gilburt explains how these roles are developing and diversifying to meet the wider needs of the NHS as a whole.
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By Helen Gilburt - 30 May 2019
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NICE at 20: a cause for celebration

Nicholas Timmins celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and considers the challenges ahead.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 29 March 2019
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Commissioning is dead, long live commissioning

With collaboration and integrated care central to the long-term plan for the NHS, Ruth Robertson considers what the future holds for commissioning and commissioners.
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By Ruth Robertson - 14 March 2019
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Quality improvement for patient safety: a chance to steady the ship?

Does the recommissioning of the Academic Health Science Networks’ patient safety collaboratives mark a renewed commitment to quality improvement for the NHS? In this blog, Ben Collins considers the NHS’s relationship with quality improvement and the challenges it faces in bringing about real improvements in quality.
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By Ben Collins - 6 March 2019
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Is it possible to use the digitisation of the NHS to reach the furthest first?

The health and care system has historically been reliant on paper for sharing information about patients. Digitisation is inevitably changing that, but what impact does that have on those who are marginalised?
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By Annie Whelan - 13 February 2019
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Improving care: what can leaders do?

In organisations like hospitals, many of the answers are found among staff rather than in the executive offices and boardrooms, says Chris Ham.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 26 November 2014
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The Better Care Fund: will the plans work?

The government expects councils and NHS partners to achieve way too much, with too little, too soon, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 5 November 2014
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The ups and downs on the road to health service improvement

Parallels between the successful transformation of the Veterans Health Administration in the United States and the changes needed in the NHS in England have been made for a number of years. But recent troubles at the VA offer some important lessons for the NHS in the future.
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By Hugh Alderwick - 11 September 2014
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Can CCGs become accountable care organisations?

‘We need clinical commissioning groups to become accountable care organisations’ – that’s what Jeremy Hunt said recently in parliament. But what does this really mean and will it work in practice? Rachael Addicott gives her analysis.
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By Rachael Smithson - 14 August 2014
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Better Care Fund, better read the small print?

Although earlier rumours of the demise of the Better Care Fund – the government’s £3.8 billion pooled fund to promote integrated care – have turned out to be greatly exaggerated, the significance of the government’s latest announcement about the fund should not be.
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By Richard Humphries - 8 July 2014
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Why we must value leaders from the third sector

If the third sector is to reach its potential in supporting a new health and social care system, then we should look to its leaders and think hard about their support needs.
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By Lisa Weaks - 3 July 2014
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Take care CCGs: it was the conflict of interest that tripped them up last time

In the past couple of weeks, ‘co-commissioning’ has emerged as the latest solution to the problems in primary care. But will it give patients, communities and clinicians ‘more clout’ in deciding how local services are developed, at a time when NHS finances are severely strained?
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By Ruth Robertson - 15 May 2014
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Wanted: an even Better Care Fund

In light of our new report on the NHS productivity challenge, Chris Ham calls for a new transformation fund to stop the NHS approaching a major financial crisis.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 May 2014
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How engaged are CCG members one year on?

One year ago today, clinical commissioning groups formally took on their statutory responsibility for £65 billion of the NHS budget. So how do individuals in CCGs feel about engagement now?
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By Shilpa Ross - 1 April 2014
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The Better Care Fund: what’s love got to do with it?

The success of the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund – designed to promote integrated care and help shift care closer to home – depends on a different kind of chemistry between local NHS organisations and their local authority partners.
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By Richard Humphries - 23 January 2014
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