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Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?

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We must reimagine the wider health and social care system

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Health and health services: the next 20 years

The winning Finnamore F20 essay on the future of healthcare

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New thinking about the future of maternity care

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Old assumptions are stopping maternity services from improving

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Size vs quality? Examining hospital mergers

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Reviewing the evidence into the effectiveness of mergers

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Financial Times news reporter Sally Gainsbury

OFT may block basket case trust moves

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If there are flaws in the OFT’s arguments, will the DH be prepared to say so?

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Your Humble Servant: family knows best

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“Everything is essential, dynamic and the answer, until it is replaced”

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Hunt's head is in the Risk Clouds

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The health secretary has a novel way of dealing with his daily crises

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Stafford Hospital

Regulating managers is the wrong response to Mid Staffs

Poor managers are a symptom of a poorly governed system

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Clinical research can improve health and wealth

Research projects can improve hospitals’ finances and treatment

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Community care should be the NHS's first option

Community FTs are crucial to the mandate’s aspirations

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HSJ news reporter Crispin Dowler

Commissioning board makes its move

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Is the board’s rejection of the CCG funding formula a declaration of independence?

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Guardian political columnist Michael White

Michael White: escalation in healthcare's culture wars

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The Francis inquiry has riled the public and private sectors

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The profitable prize behind pension reform

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Radical changes to pensions enable the government’s goal for the NHS

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Staff should be protected from 'never events'

The safety of healthcare workers should also be a factor on the never events list

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Male GP injecting arm of older woman patient

Transforming primary care: let's start with the basics

Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services

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Your Humble Servant: family knows best

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“Everything is essential, dynamic and the answer, until it is replaced”

Your Humble Servant

Your Humble Servant: heroic failure

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“We both know that the only way Monitor will pass us is if we treat a lot fewer patients, with even fewer staff and minimal kit”

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