Hospitals in England anticipate a £2.3 billion deficit by the end of the financial year. That won’t leave much in the kitty for the proposed NHS upgrade.
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Sending mentally ill adults and children long distances for care is unacceptable and must end.
Australian citizens make up one of the largest groups entering the UK each year for work or study. But this could change as Australians get swept up in Britain’s efforts to reduce net migration.
There are demands for older children to get the MenB vaccine – but what is the thinking behind the current guidance?
The UK spent much of the late 20th century voting to sell off public services – but now support is growing for a renationalisation programme.
NHS productivity gains have been truly impressive, but are they sustainable?
Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Solving the problem could save a fortune.
Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.
There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
Britain’s local healthcare system of small time gatekeepers should become stronger networks of powerful providers.
Fertility treatments might be designed to improve rather than save lives but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be publicly funded.
When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
Jeremy Hunt’s solution to cutting deaths in hospitals at the weekend is to increase staff levels. But is it just a fudge?
In my final column, I look at how care in the NHS depends upon strong relationships between staff members.
David Cameron promised a seven days a week GP service by 2020, but without considering the possible knock-on effects
We often get the facts wrong, but how we feel about austerity has serious consequences for the political class.
Pharmaceutical companies aim to make a profit, but it took an industry insider to blow the whistle on some exorbitant drug costs the NHS was paying.
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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
