
Stormy Autumn Newsletter
November 5, 2012 by Colin Adamson
Filed under commissioning, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, patient leaders, Public Involvement, QIPP, Research, Social Care
It wasn’t that Storm Sandy was particularly violent. Apparently it was just big and slow and coincided with cold air from the Arctic and some very high tides. It was the combination of factors that hit so hard. Just like the NHS?
The NHS is big and slow – it covers the whole country and seems...
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Engagement entryism – otherwise known as ‘Get Stuck In’
March 19, 2012 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Active citizens, Foundation Trusts, GPs, Local Authorities, Local Involvement Network, News posts, NHS, patient participation, Social Care, Social networking
By all means add your voice to the almost 600,000 who have signed the 38 degrees petition against the NHS Bill. But don’t stop there. What concerned citizens should then do is consider some “engagement entryism” at local level. That is where the real issues will be fought out and that...
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Scottish NHS – SWAG-ering Success?
February 11, 2012 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, Management & Innovation, News posts, NHS, Organisational Innovation, patient participation, Public Involvement, Social Care
Staff engagement as part of an innovative approach to industrial relations is the key to improved patient care says a Nottingham Business School report on NHS Scotland. The authors claim that “Partnership in NHS Scotland has matured into probably the most ambitious and important contemporary...
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Integration Holy Grail could be wishful thinking
January 9, 2012 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Clients, commissioning, Local Authorities, News posts, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Social Care, social enterprise
Integrated services reflecting individual needs and marshalling skills and resources across the health and care sectors for the right people in the right place at the right time. That’s what we should have now after 60+ years of a nationally funded health service. But we don’t have it...
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The biggest something-or-other in the world
September 23, 2011 by Andrew Craig
Filed under commissioning, Local Involvement Network, News posts, Public Involvement, Social Care, social enterprise
Remember the Government’s rather breathless aspiration back in the summer of 2010 to turn the NHS into the biggest social enterprise sector in the world? If you work for Central Surrey Healthcare - the social enterprise owned and run by 770 entrepreneurial community nurses, therapists and...
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Collaborate on neurological commissioning – Lansley
January 21, 2011 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Clients, commissioning, Disability, Local Authorities, News posts, NHS, Social Care
This afternoon we got the answer to one of our questions straight from the horse’s mouth on national radio. Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley answered on Radio 4′s PM phone in about the new NHS reforms the question we and others have been posing about how the more complex,...
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Healthy Lives, Healthy People: nudge or fudge?
December 7, 2010 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Active citizens, Local Authorities, Management & Innovation, News posts, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Social Care
Is it nudge or fudge? Your verdict on Andrew Lansley’s public health white paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People: our strategy for public health in England launched in Wandsworth on Tuesday, ultimately depends on your philosophical stance about what’s desirable – and possible – when it...
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SOS in techie info pile-up
November 11, 2010 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Clients, commissioning, News posts, NHS, Social Care
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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E-App Ahoy! New Navigational Aid for Commissioners
October 29, 2010 by Caroline Millar
Filed under Clients, commissioning, News posts, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Social Care
Off last night to the official launch of the Neurological Commissioning Support’s exciting new online tool for commissioners “NeuroNavigator”. Keen readers of the MAC blog will know that the partnership worked with the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) a couple of years ago...
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Our Patient Participation Group Liberates the NHS
September 17, 2010 by Andrew Craig
Filed under Active citizens, commissioning, Consultation, Local Authorities, Local Involvement Network, News posts, NHS, Public Involvement, Social Care
Last week as Lay Member of NHS Wandsworth PEC I got to spend two hours with a group of patients and a couple of the non-clinical surgery team members at the Balham Park Surgery Patients Liaison Group, where I am also a patient, talking about the Liberating the NHS consultation. It turned out to be...
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