Health Service Journal
Nick Bosanquet
Nick Bosanquet is professor of health policy at Imperial College London and chair of Volterra Health.
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'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'
10 November 2011
The financial problems of the NHS are extremely serious – but more like anaemia than haemorrhage. It is the financial equivalent of a long term medical condition, says Nick Bosanquet. -
Funding crisis: Greek ruin could come to the NHS
14 July 2011
Efficiency is no longer just about releasing cash from an outdated health service edifice - a new model must be built -
Performance surplus hides the fact many trusts are facing critical finance problems
14 April 2011
Trusts with serious financial problems are in danger of being overlooked as a surplus on “aggregate performance” comforts some in the NHS. Nick Bosanquet looks at five ways to avert the hidden crisis. -
Book review: 2030 - The Future of Medicine
7 April 2011
Some reading may be optional - but Richard Barker’s book 2030 - The Future of Medicine is essential. It is based on unusual joint experience - of the UK and the US systems and of health system with scientific research. -
Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security
13 January 2011
The pre-Christmas snow shower of documents did little to gather momentum towards better services. Rather, it added to the risk of planning blight for new organisations which have to find personnel and trial their powers and budgets. These are my five steps to rescue the change programme: -
An action plan for busting NHS deficits
20-Oct-2010
An action plan is needed now to ensure acute trusts do not run out of money in 2011 -
Nick Bosanquet: history offers the NHS survival skills
26 November 2009
As rising costs and a tidal wave of public expectations push the NHS towards a new funding crisis, managers would do well to study the lessons history offers -
NHS60: What's the verdict?
30-Jun-2008
We invite three health pundits to pull no punches and deliver their judgments on the past and future of the NHS -
Counter argument
17-Aug-2000
The NHS plan proposes a much wider role for community pharmacies - and this is long overdue, says Nick Bosanquet -
New Alzheimer's care
20-Aug-1998
Our report on Alzheimer's disease (News, page 4, 9 July) aims to provide a base for thinking about improvements in care.
