Autumn Statement leaves NHS pining for the fjords
Regular readers of our Healthcare Roundup will know that there is huge concern over financing for health and social care. The major think tanks, finance leads and noted commentators appear to agree –...
View Article2011: A year of unravellings and opportunities
The past year has been marked by the unraveling of grand plans. It’s also seen a real buzz emerge in the UK’s healthcare IT sector. And as far as patients are concerned, 2011 might be...
View ArticleBringing today’s technology to tomorrow’s NHS
Last week, as Big Ben chimed out midnight and the fireworks erupted around the London Eye spectacularly, my mind went back to the chimes of Big Ben welcoming the Millennium. We all waited with bated...
View ArticleHospital acquired infection: Sanitiser and systems
Over the past week I have been lucky enough to be tucked up in bed, away from the once again sinking temperatures. However, I have been unlucky enough to have contracted norovirus, a nasty bug-type...
View ArticleWithout reform our health and social care systems will implode!
This week the Health Secretary published the social care white paper ‘Caring for our future: reforming care and support’. Its aim was to set out a vision for a reformed care and support system which...
View ArticleA duty to share and care
Last week HSJ ran an extremely significant story relating to the sharing of data and information governance. While few media outlets seemed to pick up on the news and industry stayed similarly quiet in...
View ArticleTime to check out of hospital and into the nearest hotel!
Earlier this week, the BBC revealed that NHS England is currently reviewing the idea of creating ‘health hotels’ to ease pressure on hospital wards. Under the plans patients, such as the elderly...
View ArticlePerspective
It’s funny how from a young age we pick up the things that we hear, and repeat them as the norm, even if they are fictitious. Whilst there are so-called blue variations of violets, the...
View ArticleIntegrated care needs investment in IT skills: an interview with Natalie Bateman
Person-centred care has long been an ambition for the UK. The technology is ready to support the vision but an underinvestment in IT could spell further delays to making it happen, Natalie Bateman,...
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