Imagine you are responsible for healthcare in a country where 30 million people are in poverty because of healthcare costs, where you are contending with communicable diseases eradicated in many pa...
We often lament how off the pace the NHS is in harnessing the power of the internet. The rest of our lives have been transformed by the ability to access information, book flights and buy anything ...
The new year started with a clear warning about the impact on the NHS of rising numbers of people living with long-term conditions: the costs of delivering current models of care are increasingly r...
Earlier this month came a report from the BBC of a porter at Northern Ireland's biggest accident and emergency department, who said he was ‘fed up watching our nurses cry’ following problems in the...
Last week the Secretary of State for Health delivered a speech on how safety would be improved in the NHS and bold pledges were made to reduce avoidable harm. Patient safety has long been a priorit...
A few weeks ago I attended the annual conference of the International Partnership in Innovation in Healthcare Delivery. The conference brought together over 30 entrepreneurs meeting the health care...
Innovation is the most exhausted word in the health care vernacular. Everyone seems to be doing it, but who’s doing it right? Historically, the NHS has taken Schumpeter’s later view of ‘big is bett...
One of my favourite days in the Health Foundation calendar must be the annual Shine event. Each year, for the past three years, the clinical teams we have supported through Shine have reported back...
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 b...
Two years ago I was fortunate enough to join a study visit to India. One of the many impressive examples of health care systems driven by the commitment to high quality care at the lowest cost poss...
