Where’s policy action needed for a healthier population? Learning from international experience
If you were to choose a government department you would run for a day to improve the health of the population, which would it be?
People’s views on the NHS: the hidden tribes at the heart of the debate
The NHS might be 'the closest thing the English have to a religion'. To an extent this is true - but people’s views are much more mixed across the topics we polled them on.
Reflections of a hospital doctor on the challenges of maintaining high quality care in the current climate
Are the pressures on NHS and social care staff having a detrimental effect on the quality of care patients receive?
General Election 2017: Mental health providers need more than kind words
Mental health problems affect 1 in 4 people each year – yet only £1 out of £8 in commissioner budgets is spent on mental health.
Retention, recruitment and morale: it's time to address the key challenges facing our NHS and social care workforce
There are few things that all political parties agree on in this general election. The need to focus on the health and social care workforce appears to be one of them.
General Election 2017: Is the snap election just a distraction?
For busy clinicians the general election may seem a superficial distraction. But is it? While not all political parties have published their manifestos yet, we’ve had clues from speeches and leaks....
General Election 2017: Three unavoidable challenges ahead for the NHS and social care sector
There are three fundamental issues that any incoming government will need to address if health and social care are to be sustained.
Verve and aplomb: Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View
As the good book notes ‘Without a vision the people perish’. While not on a biblical scale, the Five Year Forward View published in 2014 set out what was a broad road for the NHS in England. Last w...
Health and social care devolution: the story so far in Greater Manchester
It is now almost a year since the formal devolution of the £6 billion budget for health and social care commissioning to the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) – a coali...
Evaluating the big bang: the impact of introducing named accountable GPs
England could become a world leader in providing high-quality, affordable health care by drawing on a rich history of policies aimed at improving quality. This was a clear message from our recent p...
