Patient and public participation can liberate the NHS

Our fifth and final instalment about participation in primary care practices looks at the big policy picture of a liberated NHS in England.  It’s scary for some and exhilarating for others.  But it’s an offer the NHS cannot refuse.  Patient and public participation shows the way forward... 
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The Great Pathfinder Consortia Stampede – Patient Participation Left Eating the Dust?

London GPs are off and running as 29 out of 31 London PCTs put forward local commissioning groups to be “Pathfinder consortia”.  Big unresolved issues about who will inherit the accumulated debt in some essentially bankrupt PCTs haven’t put people off (not yet anyway). Stampede to shadow consortia It... 
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“Starting Up and Stepping Out” for NHS Start-ups

We are collaborating with Cordis Bright Consulting to offer a totally timely half-day seminar for NHS Managers thinking about a social enterprise start-up future for themselves.  “Starting Up and Stepping Out” goes beyond vision to look at practical business strategy for survival outside... 
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Getting off on the right foot with your patient participation group

The fourth of our five articles on patient participation in primary care gives some pointers to practices about starting out on a positive footing with a new patient participation group and reflects what MAC partners have learned from evaluating a successful 10 year old participation group. Find out... 
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Follow the Moore Adamson Craig Partners on Facebook at “Public Involvement”

Facebook is now slated to be the Google slayer so the MAC Partners are going with the flow. Enjoy our page “Public Involvement” on Facebook, click on the thumb  and join in. We look forward to seeing your views on our views on the issues of the day affecting user and public involvement in... 
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It’s a “consumer champion” Jim, but not as we know it

MAC partners like to think about the deeper meaning of their real-life consumer experiences.  The one I relate here was  not so much “in my face” like Colin’s, as “on my screen”.   And it gave me a wholly unexpected lesson in what “consumer champion” can really mean.  If you thought... 
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“Despairing. Gobsmacking. Claptrap” – PAC verdict on health inequalities

Sweating in front of a parliamentary select committee doesn’t get much worse than hearing your record described as  “Despairing …. Gobsmacking … Claptrap”.  That’s how Public Accounts Committee Chair Margaret Hodge MP (Labour-Barking) flayed civil servants – and by implication their... 
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Counting up patient participation

Our five part series about patient engagement in primary care practices continues with the third instalment, looking at “what counts” as patient participation.  It reassures practices that one size does not fit all and participation doesn’t have to be about setting up a patient participation... 
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SOS in techie info pile-up

I logged on for the webchat with the Secretary of State from 1.30-2.30 on Tuesday afternoon hoping to learn more about the most recent consultations on the “information revolution” and “greater choice and control”. It was a bit of a technical pile-up really.  The screen displayed loads of questions... 
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All right Guv’nor?

Having recently become a school governor again after a four year break, I have just stumbled across a report on school governance to which I contributed so long ago I can’t even remember what I said or whether it was sensible.  The Twentieth Century School: Implications and challenges for governing... 
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