Pressures on the NHS are increasing, hospital beds are becoming harder to find and as the costs of hospital stays soar, it begs the question, are hospitals always the answer? According to a new paper launching today, Improving the health of local people through community-based care, bringing healthcare into the community is the right answer…
A new report launched today has shown that areas with hospitals in financial trouble and poor outcomes means that people are dying when they could not have. ZPB’s managing director Alex Kafetz explains more and our involvement in the project. Almost one fifth of the population in England are having their health and life expectancy cut…
A decade ago, if you worked in an NHS hospital, you commonly had to wait for a ward roster to be pinned to a board before you knew what shifts you were working the following month. How to influence the roster was a mystery and staff often frustrated that others seemed to get all the…
This week at the Patient Safety Congress in Manchester, the AHSN Network’s 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) launch their report Making care safer for all. It’s been almost three years since Professor Don Berwick set out his vision for improving the safety of patients in England. The PSCs, founded in response to his recommendations, have…
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