It’s tough out there – no one needs reminding. Finding a rational way ahead will tax us all (no pun intended). The first task is to make an accurate diagnosis of the challenges. What’s the detailed...
Last week Monitor and NHS England announced that, due to the number of objections raised against their proposals for the 2015/16 tariff, implementation of the new tariff would be delayed. Just over 1 ...
How confident are you that the risk management processes in your organisation enable you to predict and manage all the risks your patients are likely to face? If you have doubts, you’re probably not a...
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 be a...
No-one would claim that changing culture is easy, but it is possible. And in light of Robert Francis’s latest report we know that there is still much to be done if we are to create the learning cultur...
The NHS Five Year Forward View promises unprecedented opportunities for the ways in which people with long-term health needs are enabled to live well, in the ways which matter to them. It calls for a ...
How can national policy makers support local change? How can those working in Whitehall’s Ivory Towers help, not hinder, those working on the NHS front line? Having spent the last fifteen years workin...
When the Black Death swept through London in 1348, wiping out around a third of the population, differences in socio-economic status didn’t really matter. Chances were, you would be infected. Today...
Patient engagement is much talked about. Thankfully. However, casting my mind back 20 years when organising The King’s Fund’s Promoting Patient Choice conference, I recall having no difficulty in find...
Health and health care policy have been a matter for the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution in the late 1990s. Among the cocktail of policies pursued acr...
