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Understanding antibiotic resistance: A national antibiotic prescribing dashboard for policymakers

By Katie McCall Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: January 8, 2019

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

By Sally Jacobs and Ellen Schafheutle Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: October 23, 2018

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 […]

Opportunities to improve the management of wound care in the NHS

By Paul Wilson Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: August 16, 2018

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

By Leo Mccann Filed Under: British Politics, Health and Social Care Posted: May 29, 2018

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, […]

Just Because I Can Doesn’t Mean I Will: Behavioural science and translating professional change into practice

By Lucie Byrne-Davis, Jo Hart and Eleanor Bull Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: April 19, 2018

All innovation in health and social care has the same final common pathway: health and social care professionals doing something new or different. There are numerous theories of behaviour and behaviour change, so people who are trying to innovate can find it confusing and difficult to meaningfully draw on behavioural science. Here, Drs Jo Hart, […]

Accelerating innovation in new ways of delivering health and social care

By Simon Turner Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted: March 28, 2018

As funding pressures, population change, and new models of care and management continue to develop within our health and social care system, the ability to encourage and drive innovation is more important than ever. Here, Dr Simon Turner, reviews recent studies on how an innovation-friendly environment can be achieved in local health systems. The greatest […]

Introducing non-GP health professionals into general practice teams: what needs to be considered?

By Pauline Nelson and Damian Hodgson Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: February 1, 2018

Financial pressures and changing service demands are driving a diversification of staffing in general practice (GP). One policy response has been the drive towards increasing levels of ‘non-GP’ staff in local practices. Here, Dr Pauline Nelson and Professor Damian Hodgson of Alliance Manchester Business School survey the current situation, direction of travel, and the steps […]

Accountable Care Systems: Moving at a pace and scale that doesn’t allow us to learn from the immediate past?

By Anna Coleman Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: December 4, 2017

There is a current push to create Accountable Care Systems in the NHS, but does anyone really know what they are, exactly who will need to be involved in their creation, operation and oversight and have we yet learnt the lessons of previous models? asks Dr Anna Coleman. Accountable Care Systems (ACS) have been designed […]

Marking their own homework? The management of conflicts of interest in the NHS

By Kath Checkland, Valerie Moran, Imelda Mcdermott and Pauline Allen Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: November 9, 2017

New research shows Clinical Commissioning Groups face challenges in managing conflicts of interest when commissioning primary care. Here, The University of Manchester’s Professor Katherine Checkland and Dr Imelda McDermott, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Dr Valerie Moran and Dr Pauline Allen, reflect on their latest research into achieving effective governance arrangements […]

Scoping the impact of Brexit for NHS procurement

By Albert Sanchez Graells Filed Under: Brexit, Health and Social Care Posted: August 10, 2017

Our series of blogs from speakers at MANREG‘s ‘Brexit, Regulation and Society’ event continues with the University of Bristol’s Dr Albert Sanchez Graells’ analysis of the effects of Brexit on NHS procurement rules. The ‘purchaser-provider split’ within the NHS is the primary source of complex procurement rules. Reform of procurement regulations is possible within EU […]