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 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 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 Tim Wilson, Partner, PwC Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting... these are the five criteria for quality that 30 members of the general public - broadly representative of the English population with different needs and experiences of the NHS - developed after two intensive days sitting as a PwC...
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