Minding the gap
I read in Health Service Journal last Sunday (6 July 2013), comments from NHS England director for patients and information, Tim Kelsey that the funding gap in the NHS is set to reach a £30...
A titanic challenge for NHS communications
It was while fishing over the Easter weekend with my friend that I began to reflect on the significant changes happening this week in the NHS in England. I was updating him on events since...
Doctor, Doctor, I’m suffering from ‘writer’s block’
Patient visits GP surgery: “Doctor, Doctor I think I’m suffering from writer’s block.” Doctor replies: “I really want to help you, but to be honest I’m all words.” Jokes about writer’s block aren’t funny because…er,...
Speculate to accumulate: will GPs get it right without IT investment?
The NHS Commissioning Board recently announced that CCGs are to be given £186m a year to invest in GP IT. But what does this mean and how will they spend it? With the transfer from...
Healthcare records online: real purpose?
The government has entered a race to get the NHS ‘digitised’, with the ultimate goal of a paperless health service by 2018. Although most people will agree that this is the right course of action...
The missing link in true NHS integration
As an acceptance grows across the NHS that there is a crucial need for integration across health and social care, the extent to which our National Health Service is disjointed is becoming increasingly clear. In...
What’s needed is intelligence-based right care, right time, right place!
It has been a recognised fact for many years now that we live in an era where people are living longer and not doing so healthily and pressure continues to build on healthcare systems around...
Commissioning – no more time to bereave, so move on and accept!
Conference season is fast becoming conference year, with yet another healthcare event opening its door this week in the form of the Commissioning Show. The show, which claimed it would attract more than 3,000 GPs...
Time for telehealth to hit the High Street?
Earlier this week I attended a telehealth event that brought together a small number of suppliers to discuss the 3 Million Lives Campaign. The campaign, which aims to provide telehealth and telecare to three million...
Road ahead for the ‘Liberated NHS’
After 14 months of extensive debate and more than 1,000 amendments, The Health and Social Care Bill will soon become the law. This law is expected to ‘Liberate the NHS’ and will give rise to...
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