Measuring the Health of Nations
These graphs show international rates of “amenable mortality”—that is, deaths from certain causes before age …
Keogh and Ambulance Services
There is much good sense in Sir Bruce Keogh’s blueprint for urgent and emergency care across …
In which the Court of Appeal tells Jeremy Hunt his actions are strained and unnatural….and illegal.
Monday 28th October will be the date when, just like Wallace, Mr Rory Phillips QC …
Expenditure on healthcare compared with outcomes
Date from OECD Countries 2010
NHS Liberation
NHS Liberation first came to light through well informed rumours that the DH was working …
Private treatment and the NHS
This discussion paper was presented to the the Socialist Health Association Central Council November 2013 but …
Director’s Report
Since September my main attention has been directed to the long awaited redesign of the …
Public Health Possibilities
The Labour Party Health Policy Commission will be turning its attention to Public Health over …
Update on the work of the Independent Commission on Whole Person care
The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care was launched in April 2013 by Ed Miliband, …
Welcome to the new SHA website
Well done and thank you to Noemi Fabry for leading the redevelopment of the SHA …
Market Madness and Hospitals
According to the Regulators (Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority and the Care Quality Commission) just under …
A week in parliament or a challenge to a weak Parliament?
Polly Toynbee in her Guardian column of 25th October draws attention to “an emergency extra …