The free degrees
On Wednesday the government announced that, from 2017, students starting their training in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions (AHPs) will need to take out student loans when the curr...
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Beware the siren calls…
In the midst of delivering my second child, I got fleeting moments of respite. I caught glimpses of the future, and could envisage life with less pain, despite being up against what felt like impossib...
Why the NHS needs behavioural insights
Researchers who observed a child day care centre found that on average eight parents per week were late picking up their children. One day a sign was placed outside stating that a late parent would in...
Beware false dawns: this will be the NHS's toughest decade
Through this decade of austerity, health will have been protected relative to other government departments. But huge challenges remain for the NHS. The widely welcomed announcement that NHS England...
Breaking the ABCs of policymaking: is charging for missed appointments the wrong solution to the wrong problem?
The dust now starts to settle on the spending review. While additional funding is welcomed (with important caveats), there will always be those who question whether funding health care solely through ...
Quiet bravery: how two local health economies are transforming their health and social care
'What we know is that our current models for delivering long-term care aren’t sustainable. We can’t keep being paternalistic and wanting to fix everybody and expecting everybody to just comply with ou...
A sugar tax: is it a sweet deal?
I’m used to seeing pictures of Jamie Oliver in my living room; Save with Jamie, 15-minute meals, and Jamie’s Great Britain all sit proudly on my bookshelf. But it was a bit of a surprise when he poppe...
The difficult journey to success in outcomes-based commissioning: is there an easier path?
Mark McClellan, the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says the NHS is not alone in facing a challenging path to reforming health care...
What one CCG is doing to build winter resilience in primary care
Winter is here once again, and with it the relentless media focus on ‘crisis’ in accident and emergency (A&E) departments. Historically, ‘winter resilience funding’ (the extra money given to local ...
Devolution: the plot thickens
It seems like a lifetime ago that I wrote about the recently submitted devolution deals, but it was only September. A lot has changed in devolution policy since then, keeping true to its beginnings: a...
