Young Fabian Health Network
When things fall apart, you can half expect some form of trouble-shooting to go down. …
Monitor – Danger!
There has been a strange two-handed legal dance going on for the last year or …
(3Ps) Publicly Owned Publicly Provided Publicly Accountable
Although it is not SHA policy many of us are drawn to the idea of …
Avoidable Death
Anyone who has been at the sharp end long enough has had the experience of …
Keogh to be Congratulated
The Keogh Review turns out to one of the best documents produced for our NHS. Clear, …
Background to the Keogh Review
The review looked at 14 Acute (Hospital) Trusts, see Table 1, which had a significantly …
13,000 needless deaths?
Having written a widely-quoted systematic review on the (lack of) relationship between risk adjusted mortality …
Mortality Investigations
Our local DGH is one of the 14 somewhat arbitrarily singled out for investigation over …
Protect the inheritance!
In February 2013 the Government published the details of its plans to reform the state …
HEALTHWATCH & PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION
HAPIA, the ‘Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association’ is launched today to continue the national campaign …
Standing Together to Defend the NHS
Again General Practitioners have been accused of being responsible for the difficulties in the NHS. …
Contextual Factors in the NHS in England which are likely to have influenced the Occurrence of the Serious Untoward Events in Mid Staffordshire
Note: This analysis is not applicable to the NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland where …