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Budget shows politicians’ unwillingness to address ‘inactivity time bomb’

Danny Fitzpatrick By Danny Fitzpatrick Filed Under: Westminster Watch Posted: March 21, 2014

This year’s Budget is further evidence of politicians’ unwillingness to address an ‘inactivity time bomb’ that in time will undermine our economy, explains Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick. Lower unemployment and improved growth forecasts made this year’s Budget a much happier one for George Osborne. He was helped by the surprising news that most people in the […]

Tagged With: Budget 2014, culture, health, inactivity, obesity, public health, sport policy

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Middle managers hold key public health role

Kathryn Oliver By Kathryn Oliver Filed Under: All posts Posted: March 17, 2014

Ignore middle managers at your peril. They may be central to development and implementation of policy, explains Dr Kathryn Oliver Middle managers are more important than people often think – and that is very true when it comes to influencing and implementing public health policy. In fact, middle managers without a professional training in public […]

Tagged With: Greater Manchester, middle management, middle managers, NHS, NHS reform, public health

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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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Reality check-up: Care.data is good for our health

David Springate By David Springate Filed Under: Science and Technology Posted: February 20, 2014

Amid the furore over the delayed Care.data scheme, the reality is that the storage of pseudoanonymised patient data is already common practice, writes Dr David Springate. He argues that a national primary care database will bring big benefits – and says the risk of individuals’ data being de-anonymised by big pharma companies or criminals is remote. […]

Tagged With: care.data, NHS, 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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Public health: is the glass half full or half empty?

Julia Segar By Julia Segar Filed Under: Featured Posted: November 14, 2013

Dr Julia Segar was one of those out in force during Manchester Policy Week to hear Durham University’s Professor David Hunter and Manchester’s own Professor Steve Harrison ponder whether optimism or pessimism should prevail in the light of recent changes to the way public health is organised. The recent healthcare reforms have seen public health […]

Tagged With: council, local authority, local government, NHS, Nudge, obesity, public health, reform, shove, smoking

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