Should cities have more say in our health?
'This city is going on a diet.' So proclaimed the Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett on New Year’s Eve in 2007. Cornett had come to the realisation that he was obese and that his city was one of the fat...
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How the Health Foundation is supporting the NHS in 2015
It’s tough out there – no one needs reminding. Finding a rational way ahead will tax us all (no pun intended). The first task is to make an accurate diagnosis of the challenges. What’s the detailed...
What are the implications of objections to the 2015/16 tariff?
Last week Monitor and NHS England announced that, due to the number of objections raised against their proposals for the 2015/16 tariff, implementation of the new tariff would be delayed. Just over 1 ...
What does it really take to improve patient safety?
How confident are you that the risk management processes in your organisation enable you to predict and manage all the risks your patients are likely to face? If you have doubts, you’re probably not a...
Technology and innovation: using virtual clinic follow-up for joint replacement patients
The NHS faces a demographic timebomb and ever-increasing costs of newer tests and treatments. While better treatments and a population that’s living longer are both good news, there’s forecast to be a...
What next for the Francis culture of safety? Six steps to start
No-one would claim that changing culture is easy, but it is possible. And in light of Robert Francis’s latest report we know that there is still much to be done if we are to create the learning cultur...
Let’s start promoting wellbeing, not just treating illness
The NHS Five Year Forward View promises unprecedented opportunities for the ways in which people with long-term health needs are enabled to live well, in the ways which matter to them. It calls for a ...
It’s all about the people: how national policy makers can better support change in the NHS
How can national policy makers support local change? How can those working in Whitehall’s Ivory Towers help, not hinder, those working on the NHS front line? Having spent the last fifteen years workin...
Childhood obesity and the Marmot phenomenon
When the Black Death swept through London in 1348, wiping out around a third of the population, differences in socio-economic status didn’t really matter. Chances were, you would be infected. Today...
Patient engagement - we need to live it, not talk it
Patient engagement is much talked about. Thankfully. However, casting my mind back 20 years when organising The King’s Fund’s Promoting Patient Choice conference, I recall having no difficulty in find...
