Brexit may be dominating political debate, but the NHS cannot be ignored
The main parties’ conferences are now over and the dust is settling on the post-election landscape. The NHS’s position in that landscape is complex.
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Improving health outcomes of young people by developing soft skills
How can developing soft skills enable young people to access good quality work, and opportunities to live healthy lives?
The principles behind a future NHS payment system
While the majority of patients who use NHS services will give little thought to the payment system that reimburses a provider for their work, it can greatly affect the type and quality of care that th...
Building literacy for better health in Middlesbrough
Our ability to read, write and communicate in everyday situations has a huge influence on our wellbeing and health.
Ideas to support GP recruitment and retention
Despite 90% of patient interactions with the NHS occurring in primary care, traditionally, the medical school curriculum has been dominated by secondary care.
Valuing the social care workforce
90,000. That’s the number of live vacancies on any given day in adult social care across England and highlights the recruitment and retention challenges facing our sector.
New dystopian fiction shines a light on the social and commercial determinants of health
We challenged writers to create a dystopian future in which society had failed to act on the social and commercial determinants of health.
Winter is coming: How much would it cost to keep the pressure down?
The evenings are drawing in, and NHS minds are once again focusing on the impending winter pressures.
Has the continuing success of the NHS contributed to the ongoing hard line on funding?
The NHS presents an economic dilemma. On the one hand we boast one of the best performing and most highly efficient health care systems in the world, yet on the other we see services and the staff tha...
Work trouble: Working 9-5 doesn’t always make good living…
In Dr Fisher’s consultation room, work and its relationship with physical and mental health is linked to a range of patient complaints. In her latest blog, she explores how making more employment good...
