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Nick Fahy: What does Brexit mean for health and social care?
On Tuesday 24 January, Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health gave evidence to the Health Committee of the House of Commons about how he plans to handle Brexit for […]
Chris Hopson: “We need to be honest and realistic about what is deliverable at the NHS front line”
The next significant step for NHS strategy and planning will be the Five Year Forward View delivery plan which NHS England say they will publish in March “setting out a […]
A “Footprints” approach to patient experience and organisational development
Patients as educators [1] are vital for organisational development. Their narratives of patient experience can connect patients, users, and healthcare providers to their common humanity. The Francis report (2013) [2] […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS 3: Accident and Emergency—meeting targets but “hand to mouth”
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS 2—Recruitment is the number one problem
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]
Richard Smith: Dumfries and Galloway NHS I—The three priorities of the chief executive
Richard Smith visited and wrote about the NHS in Dumfries and Galloway in 1980, 1990, and 1999, and this series of blogs describes what he found in 2016. A feature […]
Richard Smith on supply-led demand—more doctors, more hospitals, more cost, but not more value
I squirm every time I hear that “increasing patient demand” is driving up costs in the NHS. I squirm because demand, although a standard technical word of economists, sounds so […]
Derek Bell: A blame approach will endanger the future of the NHS
Both the news headlines and the staff working in healthcare report real pressures within the NHS. The reasons for this are multifactorial and include recruiting and retaining a high quality workforce, […]
Samir Dawlatly: The perfect storm to distract us from a crisis
All over social media recently there has been wailing and gnashing of teeth by GPs, such as myself, at suggestions that the opening hours of general practice are in some way […]