NHS Voices

Effective support for people with sensory impairment starts with making it real | Sue Brown

23 / 11 / 2015 12.30am

With health and social care two sides of the same coin, Sue Brown says simple steps on both sides can make a huge difference to people with sensory impairment.

The silent scandal that speaks volumes | Jan Tregelles

18 / 11 / 2015 12.30am

Why has the avoidable deaths of 1,200 people every year not stirred the national scandal it ought to, asks Mencap chief executive, Jan Tregelles.

The evolution of a CCG lay member | Susanne Hasselmann

16 / 11 / 2015 12.30am

Providing scrutiny and assurance, challenge and expertise, lay members’ roles on clinical commissioning group (CCG) governing bodies have evolved over the last three years. Susanne Hasselmann, a lay member herself, tells us how.

Now’s the time for local solutions to national challenges | Julie Wood

11 / 11 / 2015 12.30am

With concerns growing over mounting bureaucracy, oppressive reporting processes and an out-of-touch financial system, Julie Wood says five things must change if clinical commissioning groups are to realise their potential.

How neighbourhood care in the Netherlands is hitting the right note | Kate Ling

09 / 11 / 2015 Midnight

A startlingly simple approach to health and care integration in the Netherlands is striking the right note with patients and staff alike, raising one simple question: could it work on this side of the pond? Kate Ling takes us on a tour of the pioneering Buurtzorg model.

Healthcare entrepreneurs dare to enter the den | Denis Gizzi

02 / 11 / 2015 12.30am

To spot the brightest new ideas surfacing in the NHS, Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group signed up to a ‘Dragons’ Den’ style programme. Managing director, Denis Gizzi, shares its early success and provides a glimpse into the type of innovations that entered the den.

Digging deeper into how partnership working can achieve change for patients | Stephen Collier

30 / 10 / 2015 12.30am

Working more closely together will help health and care services push the boundaries and come up with the innovations needed to meet the challenges ahead, writes Stephen Collier.

Where would you rather be – home or hospital? | Christine Outram

29 / 10 / 2015 12.30am

As the NHS grapples with how to deliver high-quality care in a capacity-stretched system, Christine Outram says clinical homecare is a win-win for patients and the NHS.

Self-care and health literacy, part and parcel of a viable NHS | Dr Selwyn Hodge

28 / 10 / 2015 12.30am

Since its inception, the NHS has unwittingly contributed to the demise of self-care, writes Dr Selwyn Hodge. Can the NHS ever remain viable if this trend isn’t reversed and health literacy levels increased?

Securing a sustainable funding settlement – our case for certainty | Paul Healy

26 / 10 / 2015 11.02am

As the Spending Review nears, the NHS Confederation’s economics expert sums up why upfront investment and protection for both social services and public health is best for health, care and the wider economy.