English devo bids: healthy or not?
Last Friday was the deadline for ‘devolution bids’ (proposals from groups of councils for greater control over public spending), and no doubt the end of frenzied negotiation and planning up and down t...
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Six challenges to becoming an effective system leader
'We are in the century of the system!' declared Dr. Atul Gawande in his 2014 BBC Reith Lectures. And there is indeed much talk today of health and care systems, thinking systemically, complex adaptive...
Outcomes-based commissioning - much promise, but is it something that CCGs can actually deliver on?
Outcomes-based commissioning is all the rage in the NHS. Many clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are seeing it as currently the only viable commissioning route to deliver on the vision set out in th...
300 inspirational stories of improvement
‘So what kind of improvements do you fund?’ Two years into my time at the Health Foundation, you’d have thought that I’d be quite good at answering this question. But how do you capture a 12 year hist...
Painting a credible picture of general practice care quality?
Today the Health Foundation has published its independent review into indicators of the quality of care provided by general practices in England following the announcement by the Secretary of State fo...
The role of communities: There is more to person-centred care than health services
A lot can change in a year. I wrote this blog almost a year ago. I’d just attended a conference on person-centred care at the King’s Fund and was inspired by the discussions on the importance of co...
Does a financial crisis in the health service mean a crisis in quality of care?
The NHS’ delayed first quarter financial results for 2015/16 hit last week’s headlines in a big way. But does the financial crisis in the health service mean there is – or soon will be – a crisis in q...
New models of care
Too much optimism and obstacles start to get ignored, unjustified risks taken, and what you were so optimistic about in the first place doesn’t come to pass. Read more...
New ways of working for general practice: A view from across the pond
There is increasing recognition that there will be (or already is) a shortage of general practitioners. To address this, there has been a focus on GP workforce by the government, Health Education Engl...
Christopher Dawson-Morris
Christopher is a GenerationQ Fellow and Deputy Director of Planning at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
