
David Kerr
David Kerr is director of research and innovation, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
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Social impact investing for the NHS?
David Kerr questions whether the NHS should involve not-for-profit organisations in providing community services as in the US
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We should all join Burnham's debate on integrated care
Key decisions on fusing health and social care cannot wait
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David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
Rather than distracting from the NHS efficiency challenge, the Health Bill could help achieve it, writes David Kerr.
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'The focus now for those who manage healthcare should be value'
Now that the dust has settled somewhat on the furore surrounding the Health Bill, I find myself thinking about the domestic and truly international health agenda.
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Post-reform NHS is life, still, but not as we know it
As the dust begins to settle a little on the furore that surrounded the introduction of the Health Bill last month, the wiser among us have started to think through what the new landscape might resemble.
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'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'
Post-Blair Labour health “reforms” overemphasised a centrist, target driven culture that tended to distort how care might best be delivered. It marginalised clinical staff, leaving them often to adopt a stance of disgruntled passivity.