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Groups in charge of the NHS budget for your care should be open, but more often than not it’s hard to tell how your where the money is going.
Navigating the welfare system is part of the daily work of most health and social care workers – from the therapists advising patients on how to survive a “fitness to work” assessment to the 30% of NHS…
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
Spending on temporary staff sparks debate but staff shortages in the NHS means reducing them isn’t a simple solution.
Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
Keeping taxes lower and protecting the government services most dear to our hearts has huge implications for everyone.
Conservative targets for 1% annual savings in the next two years will actually feel like more than 5% for a swathe of government departments.
Precarious work is just one of the big issues facing NHS staff.
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
The paradox of competition and integration other key challenges facing the re-appointed health secretary.
The Conservative Party’s plans for an extra £8 billion annual health spending aren’t enough to halt a decline in quality care – never mind transform the NHS.
When employees of dodgy companies or slipshod institutions put it all on the line to do the right thing, why do we hang them out to dry?
More nurses and higher education levels - not a change in values - are needed if nursing in Britain is to regain its world-leading status.
The tories have promised £8bn a year for the #NHS but further cuts for local government will affect our health.
The devolution of NHS budget to Manchester is part of a broader trend that allows central government enough control but without much of the responsibility for delivery or failure.
DevoManc will see £6 billion devolved to Greater Manchester for the NHS, and
Research suggests that physician-led hospitals do better, so let’s have more of them please.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says A&Es are seeing and treating people faster than any other country that measures performance. Is he right?
Management and financial performance measures are only a small part of the story of how we maintain the NHS.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor for Responsible Business, Middlesex University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Deputy Director, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, and Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Economics, City, University of London
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Chair in Organisation and Management, University of Bristol
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
