Significant regional variations in access to NHS stroke prevention surgery

A report commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and published on June 21st, found that there are considerable delays between patients experiencing stroke symptoms and being referred on to…

Tuesday June 28th, 2011

Document of the Week (27th June): Why hasn’t integrated health care developed widely in the United States and not at all in England?

This journal article (Why hasn’t integrated health care developed widely in the United States and not at all in England? J Health Polit Policy Law. 2011 Feb;36(1):141-64. Bevan G, Janus…

Tuesday June 28th, 2011

10 suggestions for GP commissioning, based on US experience

Dr Casalino (Chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Weill Cornell Medical College) spent six weeks exploring commissioning in the NHS in England in the light of the…

Thursday June 23rd, 2011

Government response to the Future forum report – Accountability and Sharing Decisions…

There is much language in the Government response that chimes very well with the principles of accountable, integrated care and shared decision making: “patients and carers should be at the…

Wednesday June 22nd, 2011

Document of the Week (20th June) – Accountability in the NHS

This King’s Fund report looks at how providers and commissioners of NHS care are currently held to account, and considers how this would change under the government’s reform programme. See: Accountability in…

Tuesday June 21st, 2011

Uneven picture of IVF provision across the NHS

This All Parliamentary Group  report uses freedom of information requests to provide  a snapshot of IVF provision across the UK and to assess the extent to which the National Institute…

Monday June 20th, 2011

Joined-in care: practical steps to patient participation

Folllowing the announcement by Andrew Lansley earlier this week that patients would be represented on the boards of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), delegates to an event in London next Thursday…

Monday June 20th, 2011

Document of the Week (13th June) – NHS Future Forum recommendations

The NHS Future Forum has made 16 key recommendations on the future of NHS modernisation, including: – nurses, specialist doctors and other clinicians must be involved in making local decisions…

Tuesday June 14th, 2011

Right Care @ the Internet Informed Patient Symposium

We’ve just added an excellent new video to our site. Dr Steve Laitner outlines the case for Shared Decision Making at the recent Cambridge symposium The Internet Informed Patient. All…

Thursday June 9th, 2011

Cameron on integrated care

David Cameron’s speech yesterday on the NHS makes much use of words such as “integrated” care and “accountable” care – but what is understood by these concepts? From the forthcoming…

Wednesday June 8th, 2011

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