Commissioning health
This report compares the efficiency of English PCTs in producing a valued output: the health of their populations in relation to the costs expended.
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The road to a national strategy for human factors: Part 3 - what should it be like?
I wrote part 1 and part 2 of this blog as a small group of people were struggling with the question, ‘how do we close the gap in patient safety?’ Let me explain what I mean by ‘the gap’... Other sa...
We are not alone! Other countries have problems too - and we can learn from them
‘The NHS is famously bad at looking outward for lessons on how to respond to new challenges, preferring to find its own way...What I find intriguing and perhaps reassuring is the sense of familiarity ...
A desire to cooperate: could it bring us through hard times?
Last month I spent an interesting Tuesday with 25 health care leaders from across the country discussing approaches to quality in times of austerity. Our brief was to tackle the question of whether th...
Whither quality?
What does the future hold for quality in the NHS? We’ve certainly become accustomed to the quality of health care rising steadily in England. As recently as 2007, only half of those waiting for electi...
How useful is competition in improving hospital performance?
Over the last few years there have been attempts in England to investigate scientifically the claim that competition between health care providers leads to better outcomes. The arguments for and again...
Patients can be part of the solution, we just need to let them in
The idea of consumers being at the centre of services is a simple idea that’s illustrated across retail, travel, finance and many other sectors. However health professionals – clinicians and managers ...
The cost of protecting the NHS budget: how do the parties' pledges fare?
The NHS will form a fundamental part of debate in the run up to the election in May next year. The Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all made promises to increase the NHS budget should they win....
What the party conferences told us (and didn’t) about the future of the NHS
The context of this year’s UK party conferences, just seven months before the general election, was unusually challenging. Voters in both Scotland (who voted in the Referendum) and in Clacton-on-Sea (...
Compassion at the heart of safer health care
Through our role supporting organisations to run Schwartz Rounds, we at The Point of Care Foundation regularly hear stories from health care staff struggling to deliver compassionate and safe care. ...
