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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, […]

Tagged With: ambulance service, care quality, education, Health & Social Care, healthcare, labour market, mental health, NHS, productivity, schools, work & pensions

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What can be gained from focusing on positives which emerge from the current GP gloom?

By Sharon Spooner Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 7, 2016

Morale in UK general practice has dropped to a low ebb and a shortage of doctors is blamed for an increasing proportion of practices seeking to avoid accepting new patients. Yet week after week around 40,000 NHS GPs continue to work. Researcher and part-time GP Sharon Spooner explores the nature and significance of what motivates […]

Tagged With: care, GPs, health, healthcare, NHS, work life balance

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Managing health and care in an ageing society

By Neil Pendleton Filed Under: Devo, Featured Posted: November 17, 2015

Health and social care delivery needs to change substantially to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by an ageing society, argues Professor Neil Pendleton. Lifespan is increasing and we know that our health and social needs become more complex as we age. We also know this changing demographic is generating huge challenges for our health […]

Tagged With: ageing society, demographics, Greater Manchester, healthcare, NHS, social care

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Are patients interested in pharmaceutical research?

By Suzanne Parsons and Bella Starling Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: August 12, 2015

It is important to involve patients and the public in pharmaceutical medicines research and development. Suzanne Parsons and Bella Starling examine who is interested, who is not and why. Involving patients and the public as active partners in their healthcare and in healthcare research has become an increasingly important policy issue in the last two […]

Tagged With: Central Manchester NHS Trust, Dame Sally Davies, drugs, EUPATI, European Patients Academy on Therapeutic Innovation, health, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, R&D

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Why we need a health bill, but aren’t going to get one

Kieran Walshe By Kieran Walshe Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 29, 2015

Here Kieran Walshe reacts to the Queens Speech and comments on the lack of any mention of plans for healthcare. On seeing that the Queen’s Speech contained no proposed legislation on health and social care, many healthcare workers and managers may understandably have breathed a sigh of relief.  After the traumas of the Health and […]

Tagged With: Andrew Lansley, Care Quality Commission, Health and Social Care Act, healthcare, Primary Care Trusts, Queens Speech, Strategic Health Authority

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An unhealthy partnership?

Neil PerkinsJonathan Hammond By Neil Perkins and Jonathan Hammond Filed Under: Featured Posted: February 18, 2015

MPs have just had a bitterly divided debate on what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will mean for the NHS. Neil Perkins and Jonathan Hammond consider the evidence. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a trade deal currently being negotiated between the European Union  and the United States. If TTIP goes ahead, […]

Tagged With: Andrew Lansley, David Cameron, European Commission, Faculty of Public Health, George Monbiot, healthcare, Investor to State Dispute Settlement, ISDS, John Middleton, Matthew Hancock, NHS, Philip Morris, Sir David Nicholson, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP

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Care.data project tarnished by liberties and assumptions

Jonathan Hammond By Jonathan Hammond Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: February 21, 2014

The potential for Care.data to improve the health of the nation is hard to argue with, writes Jonathan Hammond. But he argues that a lack of patient control, security concerns and a lamentable communications strategy have tarnished the laudable aims of the whole scheme. Let’s start with some facts about Care.data. It is a programme […]

Tagged With: care.data, GPs, health policy, healthcare, NHS England, patient data, patient database, patient trust, primary care, public health

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CCGs go primetime but reforms have spun a complex web of accountability

Julia Segar By Julia Segar Filed Under: Featured Posted: December 18, 2013

The major reforms stemming from the Health and Social Care Act 2012 have permeated Saturday night television, writes Dr Julia Segar. But while Clinical Commissioning Groups may have made it onto BBC One’s Casualty, a recent storyline misrepresented their ability to hold A&E departments to account; although given the complexity of the new system, this is perhaps […]

Tagged With: accountability, CCGs, GP commissioning, healthcare, jeremy hunt, NHS reform, public health

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