Making dialysis care more person centred
It’s increasingly recognised that empowering people to take a greater role in managing their health care is beneficial for both patients and health care professionals, especially for those living with...
It’s increasingly recognised that empowering people to take a greater role in managing their health care is beneficial for both patients and health care professionals, especially for those living with...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...