NHS ‘Help Us Help You’ before it gets worse Help us help you by speaking with your local pharmacy team about minor health concerns before they get worse. They can help with clinical advice for...
Many speeches have been given to mark 70 years of the NHS. They have rightly celebrated the considerable achievements of this much-loved institution. Few though have mentioned the origins of the NHS in the Welsh...
Anna Charles writing at the King’s Fund: In May of this year, NHS England announced four new integrated care systems (ICSs) to join the ten existing systems. But ‘announced’ is not really the right word;...
Professor Sir Chris Ham writing at The King’s Fund: Recently I spent a day visiting the Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Tameside, Greater Manchester, at the invitation of Amir Hannan, one of the partners in the practice....
Professor Keith Willett, Medical Director for Acute Care, NHS England, writing for the King’s Fund: Considers the conversation around the changing nature of care. Medicine has changed enormously since the foundation of the NHS; GPs...
The NHS is experiencing the longest and most severe slowdown in funding in its history. This has raised questions about the sustainability of its funding model. The way that health care is funded varies between...
Since sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) published their plans late last year, the issue of the number of NHS hospital beds has been rising up the health care agenda. Alongside integrating health and social care...
Beccy Baird writing at the Kings Fund: Last year we published a report highlighting the crisis in general practice. There are strong signs that general practice continues to be under increasing strain, including a rise in...
One is heavily rationed and means-tested, the other free at the point of use and tax-funded. And when assets are involved, the issue becomes politically toxic. In his first speech to the Labour party conference...
Davd Buck at the Kings Fund writes: Digital health is sexy. Last year our take on the eight technologies that will change health and care was the most popular piece on our website and we...
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