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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Maximising opportunities to engage healthcare professionals in public health policy

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‘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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Understanding antibiotic resistance: A national antibiotic prescribing dashboard for policymakers

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Antibiotic resistance has been a major concern of policymakers for decades, with wide-ranging impacts upon the world’s food production, sanitation, hospital treatment, and population health systems. Here, Katie McCall of Greater Manchester Connected Health City (GM CHC) discusses how their newly launched antibiotic prescribing dashboard can help healthcare stakeholders and policymakers to understand the extent […]

Commissioning for quality in community pharmacy: towards a better understanding of private sector providers of healthcare

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As a scheme has recently been implemented to incentivise quality in community pharmacy, Sally Jacobs and Ellen Schafheutle discuss the need for further research to inform the development of quality indicators. The role of the private sector in the NHS has expanded over the last 30 years to increase services and reduce costs. This has […]

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Opportunities to improve the management of wound care in the NHS

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The management and care of wounds is a complex aspect of our healthcare system, with implications for primary, secondary, and community care, as well as having a significant impact on both expenditures and outcomes. Here, Paul Wilson of the  NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester (CLARHRC GM) introduces the issue […]

The Case for Optimism amid the ‘Broken’ NHS

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NHS organisations and the professionals who staff them are under tremendous pressure. The University of Manchester’s Professor Leo McCann has been working closely with NHS paramedics in England over the last five years, learning about the changes they have gone through as professionals and the pressures that ambulance trusts face as organisations. In this blog, […]

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