It’s a familiar cry – the NHS needs staff at the front line and fewer bureaucrats and administrators. Or as it was put to me the other day, with a little re-writing for political correctness – “we need fewer chiefs and more ‘native Americans’”. I’d
Having considered what a strategy should contain, suggested that many Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s) don’t seem to be to be properly strategic and speculated on why that might be, I now want to show what the essence of a strategy might look like.
2016 is widely seen as being a terrible year, but how was it for health and wellbeing policy? I’ve been doing a weekly update of news items since 2012 but this is the first full year that it’s been on a database with a score
I thought the Five Year Forward View (5YFV) had a lot of promise. It identified the key issues: “we need to take our own health seriously, change the way services are provided, and yes ask the next government to support us financially”, source: press release)
Ours is one of the better performing CCGs, but there is still considerable worry about whether we will be able to balance the budget this year. A lot is being done to tackle the problem and, as a lay member on its governing body, I
Can the political parties’ auction of promises make the difference that’s needed for our health and wellbeing? (That’s the UK 2015 general election, by the way, in case you’re reading this some time later and/or from elsewhere in the world. And it’s the May election