Steve Ford
Steve Ford is deputy news editor of HSJ and Nursing Times. He covers public health, school nursing, sexual health, smoking cessation and men's health for Nursing Times; and public health, social care and local government news for HSJ.
Contact Info
- Tel: 020 7728 3713
- E-mail: steve.ford@emap.com
Recent stories
-
Government risks going backwards on integration, warn MPs
Financial pressures and the government’s reforms risk the level of integration between health and social care actually diminishing, despite ministers restating their commitment to the policy, according to MPs.
-
Ideas to improve quality and safety in care homes sought
Nurses are being asked for ideas on how to improve patient care and working conditions in care homes, as part of a new programme of work by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
-
Government orders nursing regulator review
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to undergo a strategic review due to its failure to deal with a long standing backlog of fitness to practise cases, it has been confirmed.
- Doubts cast over size of topline public health budgets
- Government announces £5.2bn public health spend
- South East trusts fall short on information practises
- Media Watch: regional pay deals return to the fore while PIP implant saga rumbles on
- No 'structural merger' of health and social care, MPs told
- DH plans to allow councils to take on public health functions early
- Nursing regulator chief executive resigns
