Patient safety: learning from Europe
Last week the European Union launched its joint action on patient safety. The three year programme will share knowledge on approaches to improving patient safety across the community and support imple...
Last week the European Union launched its joint action on patient safety. The three year programme will share knowledge on approaches to improving patient safety across the community and support imple...
Last week was a week worthy of reflection. Monday saw the publication of the information strategy – The power of information – which sets a ten-year framework for transforming information for the N...
Recent press reports (such as in The Independent and the HSJ) float the suggestion that NHS funds in England should be distributed to local areas solely on the basis of the age of the local population...
This month we’re starting work with the organisations selected for our Shared Purpose programme, and we’re really excited about some of the work that they’ll be doing. The aim of the programme is to s...
Bullying is very topical. Every time it’s discussed on TV or the radio, people queue up to say ‘yes, it happened to me’. But surely it’s something we grow out of as we enter the world of work? I’m not...
I’ve been working in mental health for 20 years and, in all this time, I can’t remember hearing as much about quality of the care we provide as I have in the last five years. Early in my career, I ...
There is an emerging consensus amongst professionals, patients and politicians that patients have a central role in the decision making process about their health. But scratch the surface of that c...
Now that the fun and games are over, what will the future bring? Let me clarify – I am not referring to the Olympic Games, for we have yet to experience the thrills and spills of the Paralympics. No, ...
At Macmillan, we have for several years had an ambition statement which said we want to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer. We know now (though we did not when we wrote the amb...
After my first wife died during a routine operation in 2005 I had many things to contend with. But in common with most people who’ve lost someone at a young age, I wanted to try and understand what ha...