GP Commissioning: a US view – lots of ways to get it wrong: very few to get it right

Lots of ways to get it wrong and very few ways to get it right – worrying words from US  doctor/academic Dr Lawrence Casalino writing about GP Commissioning. The article in the Nuffield Trust Viewpoint series is mercifully free of political axe-grinding and makes some good points based on his... 
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Testing times: pass or fail for patient and public engagement?

I won’t be the only one living with teenagers at at the moment who is sick and tired of tests and exams (not least because it means you cannot predict who is in the house at a given moment).  But as they say, if you can’t beat ‘em…..So I decided to give myself a little test.... 
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Not fit for purpose – BMA proposal on consortia governance and accountability

The pathfinder clinically led commissioning consortia (to use their proper name) are well and truly off and running.  To what ultimate destination is less clear, but the imminent report of the Future Forum “reforming the reforms” may dispel the mists and give us all a roadmap.  Will the governance... 
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Don’t shout “man overboard” quite yet

Reading through the comments on the Future Forum website about choice and competition and accountability to patients, many of them make me want to weep. The  now-closed “listening exercise” about NHS reforms has apparently drowned in a tsunami of misunderstanding, misinformation, half-truths... 
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June – NHS – Action Drought: Word Flood

Our thumbnail of a fictional flooded Central London (Flood 2007) must reflect the mood amongst those in Government who are now awash with views – MAC’s amongst them – from all us who responded to the invitation to fill the NHS Pause for Reflection with a great tsunami of opinion and... 
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