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Supporting poorly performing NHS hospitals to improve

Chris Ham comments on Jeremy Hunt's plans to ask high-performing NHS hospitals to provide support to poorly performing hospitals to enable them to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 25 September 2013
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Hospitals: is bigger better?

In the latest edition of our Insight magazine, we talk to Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, about the problems often faced by smaller hospitals and how these problems could be overcome.
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By Nigel Edwards - 13 August 2013
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Midhurst Macmillan Community Specialist Palliative Care Service: Delivering end-of-life care in the community

Part of our co-ordinated care project, this case study looks at the Midhurst Macmillan Service – a community-based, consultant-led, specialist palliative care service in a rural community in the south of England.
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By Veronika Thiel et al - 8 August 2013
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Integrated care in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Lessons for England

What can the health and social care system in England learn from the experiences of the other countries of the United Kingdom?
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 16 July 2013
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Leading health care in London: Time for a radical response

Our report on health care in London asks where responsibility for leading improvements will rest in future and argues that the new NHS structures are unlikely to provide the leadership needed to meet the challenges ahead.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 26 June 2013
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An opportunity for local government to influence future health policy

Richard Humphries writes about a deepening structural fault line between the NHS and social care providers.
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By Richard Humphries - 24 June 2013
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Patient-centred leadership: Rediscovering our purpose

This report summarises the main findings of the Francis Inquiry into the failings of care at Mid Staffordshire in relation to NHS leadership and culture. It sets out what needs to be done to avoid similar failures in future.
23 May 2013
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