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Can cancer services be sexist? Rectifying a gender disparity in cancer screening practices.

By Emma Crosbie and Neil Ryan Filed Under: All posts, Health and Social Care Posted: February 7, 2018

Lynch syndrome is a common and inherited condition that puts those affected by it at risk of numerous cancers. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended all bowel cancers be screened so as to pick up Lynch syndrome; a move that will undoubtedly save lives. However, for many women, womb cancer […]

Lessons from the Caribbean on integrated healthcare

By Dawn Edge Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 23, 2015

The NHS has much that it could learn from integrated mental health and primary care in the Caribbean, explains Dr Dawn Edge. The government has signalled that health and social care providers must move from ‘engagement’ to full ‘integration’. While the details are being worked out, there is some (albeit muted) disquiet that mental healthcare […]

Integrating physical and mental healthcare for people with multi-morbidity

By Peter Coventry Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 22, 2015

Multi-morbidity – having more than one long-term health condition, often affecting mental health – is a worsening problem. In the first of two blogs considering the issue, Dr Peter Coventry explains there are ways to improve care. Of the 53 million people living in England, more than 15 million live with a long-term health condition […]

Challenging the cult of competition in the NHS

By Kieran Walshe Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: May 13, 2014

Evidence is short that competition leads to improved healthcare performance, says Prof Kieran Walshe. Collaboration and service integration is a better policy goal. For some time – under both this government and its predecessor – there has been a powerful ideological belief that competition leads to improvements in performance in healthcare. It’s a belief unshaken […]

Lessons from the Caribbean on integrated healthcare

Integrating physical and mental healthcare for people with multi-morbidity

Challenging the cult of competition in the NHS

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