Health Service Journal
Richard Smith
Richard Smith is chairman of Patients Know Best and director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world, run by UnitedHealth. He is a former editor of the British Medical Journal.
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Will economic problems finally fix London health care?
14-May-2012
And, can London focus on the future when the present is so tough? -
Does the NHS really believe information technology can improve healthcare?
25-Nov-2011
I doubt that anybody within airlines, financial services, or manufacturing goes to meetings to debate whether information technology can improve what they do. It already has, and continues to. Why, then, have we in healthcare grown very sceptical about information technology, asks Richard Smith. -
Giving dementia the attention and support it needs - and deserves
12-Sep-2011
A recent meeting on dementia suggested that although the condition is widely misunderstood, there’s no reason why progress similar to that made in cancer and HIV care cannot be made for dementia too. Richard Smith, director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease, looks at what needs to be done. -
Competition can work, but only with the right tactics
17 February 2011
“Competition in health care should be tactical not ideological”. This was the main message from the “Competition versus integration in the NHS” debate organised by the Cambridge Health Network and the King’s Fund
