Tag Archives: Health

Suspicion and gloom in sunny Liverpool

The sun was shining in Liverpool for the NHS Confederation Conference last week but inside the conference centre clouds gathered as NHS managers congregated to review the issues of the day. Dark mutterings of discontent could be heard in the … Continue reading

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Policy Exchange: Future Foundations

Last Wednesday saw the publication of the inquiry into the failures at Mid Staffordshire hospital where over 400 patients needlessly died.   The inquiry was ordered by the Secretary of State in response to the public outcry.  The recommendations are, of course, … Continue reading

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Policy Exchange: Safety in Numbers

The Department for Health did not have a good week last week.  It started with hospitals being accused of putting patients’ lives at risk, for failing to comply with safety alerts issued by the National Patient Safety Agency.  And it has … Continue reading

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Living Walls

On a slightly different note to what I  normally write about… I had heard about this but yesterday went to see it. The Living Wall in the new Anthropolgie store on Regent Street is amazing. The shop itself is full … Continue reading

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Achieving equality by putting patients in charge of their health

A Policy Exchange report has proposed a radical new framework to tackle the inequality of primary health care provision. The overwhelming majority of NHS activity takes place in primary care, for just 11% of total NHS costs.  But whilst the … Continue reading

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