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Chris Ham and Anna Charles: Accountable care is a promising way of integrating care
Campaigners have launched judicial reviews of a proposed contract designed to enable NHS commissioners to procure care from accountable care organisations. The contract would allow these organisations to take responsibility […]
Veena Raleigh: Uses of the Mental Health Act—is the data fit for purpose?
How reliable is the data collected about detentions under the Mental Health Act? Veena Raleigh looks at the data quality issues and their implications. […]
Karim Brohi: Trauma networks and terrorist events—to care for many, care for one
In 2005, I was a senior specialist registrar in surgery at the Royal London Hospital and managed casualties from the 7/7 London bombings. Twelve years later, now a consultant trauma […]
NHS standards and performance: Is prioritisation the answer we’ve been looking for?
The King’s Fund’s June 2017 quarterly monitoring report (QMR) showed that NHS performance on key access targets over the financial year 2016/17 continued to deteriorate. For the ambulance response time, […]
Jennifer Isherwood: A trainee’s perspective on delivering frontline care
A trainee’s day falls into one of two categories: emergency or elective work. Both follow a similar pattern: arrive, handover, see patients (ward round and review new referrals), clinic/endoscopy/theatre, handover, […]
Harrison Carter: Medical students’ perspectives on delivering frontline care are unique
Medical students rotate through clinical placements in their final three years of study. The timetables at medical schools are tailored to ensure that medical students experience different hospital environments, from […]
Rammya Mathew and John Launer: Holistic care is fast disappearing
GPs have considerable insight into the care that their patients receive as we are commonly the ones to instigate the acute admission. We also take over the ongoing care of […]
Lillie Wenzel: The impact of NHS financial pressures—a mixed picture
Recent figures revealed that NHS providers have a deficit of nearly £900 million for the first three quarters of 2016/17—a clear sign that NHS organisations are struggling in the face […]
Chris Ham and Don Berwick: An insight into frontline clinical care in acute hospitals
During the past year we have become increasingly aware of the pressures facing frontline clinicians working in acute hospitals. Each of us spent time in 2016 shadowing a general physician […]