Keeping an eye on the NHS Commissioning Board
The new Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board – Malcolm Grant Provost of University College London – is not unused to conflict. He has been attacked by the right and the left in recent times. Now that...
View ArticleDavid Nicholson in charge at the Department of Health!
At the bottom right of the Department of Health website is a tag cloud which is an aggregation of terms that have been highlighted in Department of Health publications. Behind it is a popular tags list...
View ArticleCommissioning to tackle Cancer and the Social Determinants of Health
My last post focussed on the importance of local leaders driving needs assessments and commissioning through using commissions to ask the tricky and difficult strategic questions that systems need to...
View ArticleNHS Commissioning Board Mandate – Implications for Local Activists
Do you remember Strategic Health Authorities? Most people were completely unaware of their existence and they had no accountability to local people. Yet they were the key mechanism used to shape the...
View ArticlePublic rate NHS England higher than GPs and Hospitals!
The latest data from the NHS England Insights dashboard shows that the public are making more positive comments about NHS England on social media than negative ones this compares far more favourably...
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