Public expenditure in health and social care
Our submission to the Health Select Committee inquiry on public expenditure in health and social care.
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The spread challenge
This report shines a light on the challenges facing the NHS in improving the uptake of new ideas and practices, and the need for new approaches when developing national and local programmes to support...
Five top tips for our checklist for building organisational improvement capability
Over recent months, I’ve been testing out a checklist to help organisations assess how ready they are to start improvement projects and see what else they need to put in place. The checklist was de...
Manifesto blur for Scotland… but in a good way
How does a political party stand out from the crowd in relation to the NHS in the lead up to a UK general election? Typically, they attack the prevailing government’s strategy and track record. Commit...
Reforms, review, consensus: What’s in store for health care in Northern Ireland?
Next week, on 5 May, Northern Ireland will elect their new Assembly to oversee its devolved functions. If you aren’t as up-to-date as you might like to be on how the system works in Northern Ireland, ...
A message of hope for the NHS
There are a lot of problems in the NHS right now. And there are a lot of articles and blogs listing them one by one in all their glory. I’ve even written some of them. But this isn’t one of those blog...
How to cause more hurt
James Titcombe is a name that is becoming increasingly familiar to many of you I suspect. James’s son died at Morecombe, and has been the subject of a number of investigations. Last week the Parlia...
Please stop trying to involve me in my healthcare
In 1948, the government introduced legislation which put a duty on estate agents to involve people in the purchase or rental of their houses, preventing the agent from entering into legally binding pu...
A turning point for patient safety?
Fifteen years ago I was involved in developing a performance assessment framework for the NHS – an attempt to provide the public with a rounded analysis of their local NHS bodies. At the time, we were...
Don’t give up on me, baby (aka how to halve avoidable injury)
Imagine having a normal pregnancy, only to have a difficult birth ending in a damaged baby. Imagine the damage was preventable, if only the obstetric care had been better. Your baby would not recover,...
