An Alternative Vision for Health Policy
Replacing the Health and Social Care Act Simple repeal of the reviled Health Act 2012 cannot be an end in itself. What is needed is a clear vision of an alternative approach to make our care system...
View Article‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st...
Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said today at the King’s Fund: Today I open Labour’s health and care policy review. For the first time in 20 years, our Party has the chance to...
View ArticleNot More of the Same – innovation in the NHS
Francis set out an excellent analysis but sees solutions through fixing the current system – more regulation to address the comprehensive failure of regulation. It resonates with the mantra that more...
View ArticleIndependent Commission on Whole Person Care
On Monday 22nd April Ed Miliband MP launched a new independent commission which will help inform Labour’s Health and Care Policy Review. The new Independent Commission on Whole Person Care will be...
View ArticleFrailty: a critical test in reversing a ‘Fragmented Illness Service’ to a...
Professionals intuitively recognise “frail” older people as more shrinked, and slowly moving. This phenotype is beautifully described by the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck in the self-portraits...
View ArticleKeep it Simple: whole person care
If Labour is elected in 2015 it will inherit a demoralised and financially challenged NHS and a social care system on the edge of collapse, with challenging economic background. What should it do? Two...
View ArticleGetting the best NHS deal for Manchester
There must be an election coming. After five years of making savage cuts to council budgets, and five years of fragmenting and privatising, George Osborne has waited until five weeks before this...
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