Some Christmas cheer for the NHS?
A little bit of Christmas cheer might be in the offing for the NHS in George Osborne’s Autumn Statement after he announced additional funding of anything up to £2bn for the NHS in 2015-16 on Sunday. ...
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A chain reaction? Anticipating the Dalton review
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr allegedly observed that it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Hard but not impossible: the Five Year Forward View has already made a big impact on...
Compassion, dignity and respect are fundamental aspects of care, not add-ons
We recently held an important event focusing on fundamental aspects of health care that I feel particularly passionate about: compassion, dignity and respect. It was interesting to explore what the...
To FT or not to FT: that is the question. Or is it?
As part of our work on analysing the controversial decision to prohibit the proposed merger of Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Tru...
QI methods: the essentials of good clinical management?
It’s nearly 15 years since the NHS Plan set out the blueprint for a national agency tasked with applying quality improvement techniques across the NHS. In its heyday, the Modernisation Agency was runn...
A transformation fund for the NHS
It is now widely accepted that, in order to meet the challenges facing the health and care system, the NHS will need both to improve productivity and to receive a real-terms increase in funding. It is...
Integration: put people first
A friend recently told me she’d had eleven assessments in the past year, all relating to her health and care needs. When attempting to more closely align health and social care, the last thing we shou...
We shouldn’t just blame sheer weight of traffic for NHS queues this winter
I was in Manchester last weekend and drove back on the M6. As we approached the Cheshire/Staffordshire border the traffic slowed down and stopped. We then crawled slowly for what seemed like ages and ...
Human factors in health care - what’s new and what next?
Those who know me well will know that I'm a pessimistic optimist – I know we'll eventually see human factors firmly embedded in health care across the world, but I know it won't happen without a great...
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...
