The Government White Paper on improving community health and care services (Our Health,
Our Care, Our Say) proposes shifting care within particular specialties from hospital into …

The Health and Social Care Bill proposes a different approach to commissioning a
significant majority of NHS services. Clinical Commissioning is expected to empower NHS …

The current changes and continuing debate about future primary care services, primary
care trusts (PCTs) and acute hospitals and Foundation Trusts in England need to take into …

Children’s social care services nationally have been distracted by the agenda of organisational
change (children’s trusts), 2 poorly evidenced initiatives for integrated information …

There is a lot to do. General practitioners and hospital specialists are differently employed,
is this important? Should they be employed in the new service and recognised as equals in …

McShane and Smith present a comprehensive summary of Windmill 2009 simulation hosted
by the King’s Fund. 1 2 The simulation gave patients and frontline clinicians a low profile, …

This leaves community child health services in the uncertainty of no-man’s land. There are
no tariffs for community services, mental health or learning disability; so far so good. A …

Telecardiology allows for the remote specialist interpretation of electrocardiographic recordings
via telephone transmission. It has the potential to change the way cardiac care is being …

Containing concise but detailed summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios
and conditions likely to be encountered by trainees, paediatricians, therapists, nurses, and …

The National Health Service (NHS), mostly free at the point of need, is greatly valued by the
UK population and is admired in many other countries. Lengths of stay in NHS hospitals …