Government considering single leader for local NHS and care services
The HSJ has reported that the government are considering a change to a single person being accountable for planning health … Read more
Long-term plan
More flaws exposed in ‘integrated care’
New study concludes: No shared understanding of what integration means Pilots achieved “only mixed results” and made little progress on … Read more
ICSs fail to recruit chief executives
Five integrated care systems in the Midlands have failed to appoint a chief executive designate for their integrated care boards. … Read more
NHS given impossible ‘guidance’
“The floggings will continue until morale improves.” That’s clearly the way management is viewed in today’s crisis-ridden NHS. It seems … Read more
Expansion of pharmacies’ clinical offering fails to offset crisis in general practice
The move by the NHS community pharmacy sector to bolster its clinical offer to patients by expanding into hypertension case-finding … Read more
New Health & Care Bill will gag local voices
A major loss of local accountability and control, coupled with a massive expansion of centralised powers, and the danger of … Read more
End the injustice of dementia patients paying for their care
Let down again, charities and campaigners representing 850,000 dementia patients were united in their criticism of the government this week … Read more
What will be in the Health and Care Bill?
The 2021 Queen’s Speech lacks any details of the proposed ‘Health and Care Bill,’ which we might have expected to … Read more
NHS CEO Simon Stevens heads for the exit
The latest, shocking statistics show the scale of the decline of NHS performance on almost all of its key targets: but the … Read more
Urgent action needed for post-pandemic recovery
A new analysis shows that the NHS will be unable to get to grips with post-pandemic health challenges or make … Read more