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For patients – is change a loss or a gain?

National Voices and its partners, the NHS Confederation and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, are calling for a whole-system approach to changing the health and care system.
Integration is key to NHS future

The NHS should take all possible steps to become an integrated system that dissolves the boundaries separating health, mental health and social care said Norman Lamb, Minister of State for Care and Support (pictured).
NHS e-Referral Service will replace Choose and Book

Clinical Commissioning Groups have a major role to play in the success of a new e-Referral system that’s part of plans to make the NHS paperless.
BMA scheme to bring MPs into practices

GPs are to invite MPs into their practices to take a look at the impact of NHS reforms. The scheme is one of a series of initiatives launched today by the BMA.
Queen’s Speech disappoints

Plans to restrict immigration are at the heart of the government’s planned new laws, set out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament.
GPs keen to influence public health but …

GPs may lose opportunities to improve public health unless public health professionals work closely with GP communities and clinical commissioning groups, finds a just published report from the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC).
Parkinson’s – let’s change perceptions

Portraits of 130 Parkinson’s heroes are on sale to help fund research into Parkinson’s Disease. Painted by Timothy Cumming the contemporary portraits from the “Facing the Light” exhibition, show portraits of people with Parkinson’s, carers, medics, activists and supporters.
Budget puts pressure on LAs, NHS …

The new NHS and Clinical Commissioners will come under increased financial and service pressures following the Chancellor’s Budget.
Online records to drive “zero harm” and health research

The NHS must get its values right with staff that have more care and compassion for patients following on from the Francis Report, said Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. In a key speech given at the Healthcare Innovation Expo in London, Hunt said “real time information” and “a paperless NHS” will help to make a “zero harm NHS a priority.”
…the biggest challenge facing dementia is?

What, in your view, is the biggest single challenge facing dementia, and/or the provision of dementia services, at the moment and what outcome would you like to see achieved?