Health Service Journal
Neil Churchill
Neil Churchill is chief executive of Asthma UK.
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'A culture shift can help reduce prescription wastage'
17-May-2012
Patient involvement is paramount to prescription policy. -
'Patients and organisations still need an information revolution'
5 January 2012
Reorganisations might be familiar at Richmond House, but revolutions are rarer. With the information strategy officially paused, has the promised NHS spring turned to winter, asks Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill. -
'After destructive debate, the case for reform needs to be rebuilt'
13 October 2011
The government needs to find a way to make the ingredients of reform seem like opportunities for positive change rather than threats, writes Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill. -
Local services need the backup of national support
21-Jul-2011
We’ve all gone local these days. The health secretary is handing power to GPs. NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is giving a bigger say to patients. -
The listening exercise needs to reach grass roots voices
12 May 2011
The government appears to be listening hard in a bid to appease opposition to the health service reforms - but, as Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill explains, some patient groups’ concerns are still not being addressed. -
Community action in the NHS is quietly building the Big Society
24 March 2011
Mention the Big Society now in the voluntary sector and you are likely to be met with stony gazes. The prime minister’s relaunch of what he describes as his mission in politics will struggle to convince a sector facing the loss of £1.2bn in public funding from April. -
'Time to scrap GP exception reporting'
19-Jan-2011
We must now scrap exception reporting by GPs in the quality and outcomes framework. -
NHS efficiency savings could get a rough ride
28 October 2010
What is the difference between a cut and an efficiency saving? And will patients be able to tell the difference? -
NHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind
26 August 2010
It could be the language that seals the deal. New Labour’s mission got lost in a technocratic haze, so a white paper more comfortable with the vernacular of the voluntary sector is helping patient groups swallow the pill of another reorganisation while showing genuine enthusiasm for the changes ahead. -
GPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?
15 July 2010
The quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programme, a colleague once said, is like redesigning a plane while attempting to fly it. -
Neil Churchill: NHS savings on long term conditions
20 May 2010
Encouraging patients to be more self sufficient could go quite a way towards realising the required savings of £2.7bn a year by 2014 from the NHS’s long term conditions budget -
Neil Churchill: advice for managers on giving criticism
21 January 2010
As a manager, you are meant to give three pieces of praise for every piece of criticism. That’s the minimum ratio experts believe is effective in encouraging good performance.
