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Families are the biggest providers of care, yet carers can find themselves cut out of decision-making and bounced between different bureaucracies Caring is a fact of life. Whether a partner falls ill, or a parent needs support as they grow older, or a child is born with a disability – it will affect...
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Cost-effective, person-centred, co-ordinated care requires support for local health systems so they can deliver the right care in the right settings, and develop new ways of working In recent years, the health and social care sectors have both faced a series of unprecedented challenges. These have included...
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Sponsored Q&A: how can higher education better prepare students for a patient-centered NHS? Join our panel of experts on Friday 17 May 12-2pm BST The inquiry into the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year, has left an unsettling nervousness...
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How can the NHS move forward from the current situation where it is besieged by the Francis report and cuts? Post the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the economic climate, providing affordable and safe healthcare is now one of the biggest challenges we face. The NHS is always changing and over time...
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The chair of the NHSLA board on changes in the health service, her life as an academic and why diversity is slipping back What does the NHS litigation authority do? We are essentially a mutual insurance company for the NHS in England. We indemnify NHS organisations against negligence claims, and in particular...
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Public health settlement is more generous than expected but basing allocations on historic spend will leave some councils out of pocket There has been both excitement and anxiety around the transfer of public health to local government this month. Unfortunately the excitement has mainly been in local...
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If we reduce migrants' access to GPs we increase the amount of disease within the population and drive up admissions to A&E Migrants already have significantly less entitlement to use the NHS than the general population. Their current situation is an injustice, and they are suffering the constant...
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Government's swill see more pressure on adult social care departments, but could also lead to a new role in offering information and advice The shortcomings of the government's proposals for a cap of £75,000 (or £72,000 as is now being suggested) on individual liabilities for long-term care funding...
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Following the Francis report, the NHS Confederation was asked to review bureaucracy. Mike Farrar reveals some early findings The NHS has experienced numerous attempts to free staff from the shackles of unnecessary paperwork to allow more time for patient care. These efforts have seemed little more than...
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We asked healthcare professionals whether they had ever reported serious concerns over the delivery of care. Here is a selection of their answers What the whistleblowers say "I reported clinical concerns and highlighted bullying and victimisation - no action was taken." "They were investigated...
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Our latest survey asked healthcare professionals how ready they thought organisations such as clinical commissing groups and health and wellbeing boards were to take up their new responsibilities. Here is a selection of their answers "I believe that a lot of these new structures will be in place...
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Wednesday's event could achieve what the government's NHS reforms have not The NHS Change Day on Wednesday has great intentions and a potential to make a real difference to patients, carers and families, and by virtue of this should make health professionals proud to work in the NHS. So far more...
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A look at the members that make up the body that will run the health service in England from next month Professor Malcolm Grant, chair The president and provost of University College London, he is described by a colleague as having "a brain the size of a planet and is a natural leader – clear and...
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When it was announced, the Children and Families Bill was a huge step forward. Now, expectation has turned to despair Cast your mind back to May 2012; before London had hosted the greatest Olympic Games ever and before the Paralympics had put disability on the map . That May in the Queen's Speech...
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The fundamental problem with the trust was structural and is likely to herald a reconfiguration process in UK healthcare The South London healthcare trust (SLHT) could never work as a single organisation. It was formed in April 2009 as a result of the merger of three struggling acute healthcare organisations...