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Citizen’s data, healthcare and trust

By John Ainsworth and Niels Peek Filed Under: Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: August 11, 2020

Health data has informed a central part our NHS for more than two decades, helping the informative bodies to improve services and understand health trends. This has also proved key in understanding, and attempting to mitigate, the worst impacts of COVID-19. However, when this data is shared with secondary bodies, does the public trust that […]

Tagged With: care quality, data, digital, Digital Futures, disability, Health & Social Care, NHS, NHS Digital, NHS improvement, OnDigitalTrust, Privacy, public health, technology

The Health and Social Care system under strain: Rethinking integration policies in the post-COVID-19 era

By Marcello Morciano, Kath Checkland, Matt Sutton and Jonathan Stokes Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: July 1, 2020

In 2019, the NHS published plans (‘The NHS Long Term Plan’) promising to introduce inventive, ambitious ways to bring NHS and social care together across England, working with the private and voluntary sector, and users and carers. Needless to say, things have changed since 2019. Nevertheless, the recent COVID-19 pandemic is showing us just how […]

Tagged With: care quality, NHS, NHS improvement, public health

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Planning and managing service delivery in the NHS: looking to the future

By Kath Checkland Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: May 26, 2020

COVID-19 has reinforced the necessity of effective planning of health services, treatment and prevention capacities in primary and secondary care, and both protecting and optimising our healthcare workforce. Here, Professor Kath Checkland reflects on the renewed centrality of “commissioning” to health policy debates that will follow in the wake of the pandemic, and draws lessons from […]

Tagged With: Clinical Commissioning Groups, local government, NHS, NHS England, NHS improvement, public health

How inequalities are affecting the response to COVID-19

Nasima Begum By Nasima Begum, Arpana Verma and Bella Starling Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: April 28, 2020

In a recent clip widely shared on social media, Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis highlighted the inequalities at the heart of the current COVID-19 emergency, describing it as “a public health issue with huge ramifications for social welfare and a social welfare issue with huge ramifications for public health”. Here, Dr Bella Starling, Professor Arpana Verma and […]

Tagged With: care quality, COVID-19, Health inequalities, inequality, LGBTQ+, NHS, Pandemic, public health, Social Justice

Suicide prevention in action: an update on the national programme

Nicola Richards By Cathryn Rodway and Nicola Richards Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: March 31, 2020

Nicola Richards, Research Assistant, and Cathryn Rodway, Programme Manager and Research Associate, work for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH). In this blog, they discuss the progress of national investment in suicide prevention, and give examples of good practice developed from local quality improvement plans that should help to […]

Tagged With: gender equality, mental health, NHS, public health

Migrants, Asylum Seekers and the NHS: Reasons for ending the ‘Hostile Healthcare Environment’

By Louise Tomkow Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care Posted: October 30, 2019

Dr Louise Tomkow is a Geriatric Registrar in the Northwest deanery. She has recently completed a PhD, exploring migration and health at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. She will begin a 4-year Older People and Complex Health Needs NIHR Clinical Lectureship at The University of Manchester in April 2020. This blog accompanies her recently-published paper in […]

Tagged With: cohesion, health, immigration, NHS

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In the rush to implement Integrated Care Systems, don’t forget Health and Wellbeing Boards

By Anna Coleman Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: August 6, 2019

In the context of the changes set out in the recent NHS long term plan (2019), Dr Anna Coleman draws our attention to the recently published LGA report which highlights some of the good work that Health and Wellbeing Boards have been undertaking since they were introduced in 2013. She suggests the new place-based system of […]

Tagged With: local government, NHS

Maximising opportunities to engage healthcare professionals in public health policy

By Chris Keyworth Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: May 22, 2019

‘Prevention’ continues to grow as a focus of public health policy, seeking to enhance general well-being across a population and to avoid the potential future costs of treatment for avoidable conditions. Here, Chris Keyworth discusses one of the NHS’ flagship prevention initiatives, ‘Making Every Contact Count’. Making Every Contact Count has been designed to form […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, behavioural science, NHS, prevention

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Integrating community pharmacy services in primary care: making better use of our healthcare venues

Ali Hindi By Ali Hindi, Sally Jacobs and Ellen Schafheutle Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care Posted: March 6, 2019

The recently launched ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ proposes to make better use of community pharmacists’ skills and explore further efficiencies in community pharmacy in new primary care networks. In this blog, Ali Hindi, Ellen Schafheutle and Sally Jacobs highlight important factors for enhancing the use of community pharmacy services within primary care for patients with […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, community, health, NHS, pharmacy

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When is a plan not a plan? Reflections on the NHS Long Term Plan.

By Kath Checkland and Jon Hammond Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: January 14, 2019

Professor Kath Checkland and Dr Jon Hammond of the University’s Health Organisation, Policy and Economics unit (HOPE) share their thoughts on the Government’s new ‘Long-Term Plan’ for the NHS.  The new NHS Long Term Plan, and the investment associated with it, are welcome announcements but still fall short of most accepted definitions of ‘plan’ A full […]

Tagged With: #SDG, #SDG Good Health and Well-Being, #SDG Reduced Inequalities, NHS, social care

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