Diane Gray
Dr Diane Gray originally trained and worked in general medicine before specialising in public health medicine. She was a visiting Fellow at the King’s Fund in London and, before coming to the US, she was director of strategy and planning and deputy director of public health for NHS Milton Keynes. While in the US, she will be using two case studies (New York's Health and Hospitals Corporation and Kaiser Permanente Southern California) to exemplify how integration of care delivery improves quality whilst maintaining affordability.
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Inadvertent integration?
Recent reports from the US and UK suggest primary care and hospitals merging on both sides of the Atlantic. But are we missing these opportunities to understand truly integrated care in the NHS?
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Customer knows best ... ?
Keeping the customer happy is important in US healthcare - but at what cost?
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Big Apple with the Big Heart
How US healthcare isn't all Wall Street ...
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Trick or treat ...
The spectre of the US mid-term elections will be lingering well past Halloween. But are there any lessons in all this for how we handle our own health reforms?
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Comment on: Strategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'
In our PCT, we had aligned with some success the public health and strategic planning functions, so that developments in healthcare delivery were based on population need. The "Liberating" White Paper seems to have overlooked that 'health services quality' part of the public health function, so it will be interesting to see whether the Public Health White Paper, and in particular its description of the national public health service, mentions any role in the strategic planning of health care services.
