Picture it: Andy Burnham, George Osborne and Norman Lamb get stuck in a lift. What do they talk about? Going by their recent speeches, integration of health and care might be a good place to start. It...
It’s been an important couple of weeks for the finance departments of all providers of NHS services. Following objections from 13% of commissioners, and 75% of relevant NHS providers by share of suppl...
Let’s follow the logic: to improve quality and efficiency, the NHS needs to change dramatically. Given widespread variation, the parts of the NHS which particularly need to change are those particular...
Two years ago I was fortunate enough to join a study visit to India. One of the many impressive examples of health care systems driven by the commitment to high quality care at the lowest cost possibl...
Most of my work in health care has been in the US, but I have always been fascinated by universal health care and the NHS. And so I jumped at the opportunity earlier this year to work with the NHS on ...
It’s been a big week for children’s mental health. Yesterday saw the publication of a major taskforce report, today sees the budget announcement of extra money for mental health services. Does this me...
Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to FutureFest – an exciting multimedia and multi-sensory imaging of the future. Creating the atmosphere of part-conference, part-exhibition and part-festival (we ...
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...
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...
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...
