By Sunil Patel, partner and Janet Dawson, healthcare lead partner One of the biggest changes over the history of the NHS is the increase in information available to commissioners and providers. We now know more about what the NHS does and how that impacts on health than ever before –...
By Kalee Talvitie-Brown and Janet Dawson With 1 April looming, clinical commissioning groups will be focused on their role in improving and transforming services and putting clinical decision making firmly at the heart of the new NHS landscape. CCGs first 100 days will set the tone for their performance over...
By Nick M Jones The combination of increasing demand and a tightening financial envelope means that business as usual is no longer an option for the NHS. Our recent report with the Nuffield Trust – The anatomy of health spending – reviews NHS spending and productivity over the period 2003/04...
By Ed Bramley-Harker What might the future hold for the NHS in 2023? On 26 February, we brought together a range of stakeholders from across the health sector, and beyond, to think about this question, exploring the possibilities for the NHS over the next decade. The potential visions for the...
By Janet Dawson and Dr Tim Wilson The NHS has had its fair share of headlines over the past twelve months. High profile debates over quality, reform, restructuring and funding make it hard to imagine a day when change won’t be constant in the NHS. For healthcare professionals in the...
By Janet Dawson and Sally Bassett As we wait for the second Francis report into care failings in Mid Staffordshire, the question has to be asked, given we already know much of what is needed to drive improvements, why are so many healthcare providers waiting? Setting a responsive regulatory environment...
By Janet Dawson and Dr Tim Wilson The basic shape of today’s healthcare provision was largely established when the NHS came into being in 1948. Although a single health service was created, provision was fragmented between general hospital, teaching hospital, community care, mental health and general practice. The apocryphal story...
By Janet Dawson and Edward Bramley-Harker Most healthcare providers will be aware of the new licensing regime Monitor is introducing. But many will still be puzzling about what it means for them. How the licence will play out in practice will be complex. The licence replaces terms of authorisation and...
By Tim Wilson, Partner, PwC Healthcare is under pressure, with limited finances stretched to meet ever-increasing demand. The urgency that straitened times instil, alongside the structural and organisational changes that the Health and Social Care Act has brought about, mean that commissioners are having to make increasingly difficult decisions about...
By Edward Bramley-Harker Last week Monitor, the sector regulator for health and social care, published a consultation paper that presented draft proposals on the licence that providers of NHS-funded care will need to obtain and comply with. While Chairman David Bennett stressed in his introduction that Monitor “look[ed] forward to...
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