Prospects for the NHS: Transformational incrementalism
Our basic model of universal free health care is affordable and desirable for sound economic …
Could NHS Sustainability Plans Help Voters Influence The NHS’s Future?
With Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) aimed at delivering multi-billion savings, being carried out secretly …
Should we classify obesity as a disease?
Obesity has been in the news quite a lot during the past few months. In …
Who cares about the rising number of suicides by mental health patients?
The government says it wants to ‘save lives’, and it’s possible in psychiatry if you …
Fight for sight
Fight for Sight fund pioneering eye research, with the aim of creating a future everyone …
Co-operation, collaboration and competition – inside the mindset of NHS managers
The publicly funded, free at the point of use NHS has been described as the …
Health Creation … tell us your Trojan Mouse success story!
The 5p carrier bag … The early evidence from the assessment of the impact of …
The case for health visiting needs to be strongly made this autumn
The progress made to boosting the health visiting profession in recent years is, once more, …
Tory Plans for Hospital Closures and Further NHS Privatisation
I have written before about Jeremy Hunt’s opaque and secretive reorganisation of the NHS, which …
Labour and the NHS in Era 3 – Policy Challenges
Don Berwick, a North American fan of the NHS and critic of the wasteful US …
Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for the NHS will rescue it from Tory dismantling
The Conservatives have mired our health service in crisis. Our task is to shift resources …
Where you live can kill you
In 1842, the English social reformer Edwin Chadwick documented a 30-year discrepancy between the life …