Before, I launch into the second in my series about resources the NHS ignores – I need to make a quick apology about my previous…
Before, I launch into the second in my series about resources the NHS ignores – I need to make a quick apology about my previous…
Now that both ambulance drivers and nurses are set to strike over the Christmas period, it is at least worth asking the question – can…
Our poor NHS is rather like many of our fellow citizens suffering from a post-Covid Syndrome. Two years after the pandemic, we have the longest ever…
This letter first appeared in the Financial Times Martin Wolf’s article encouraging the Tories “to abandon their shibboleths” with respect to economic policy and embrace…
OPEN MANIFESTO POLICY DRAFT The current NHS funding model has not changed since its founding 80 years ago and yet all attempts are reform have…
Radix Fellow, Prof Stephen Smith, has proposed a new hypothecated tax and other measures to increase NHS funding and to ensure everyone contributes fairly. These…
The ten macro trends in the NHS (see Book 1) are creating many more chronic, out-of-hospital conditions and even ‘new’ conditions such as diabetes and…
Book 2 of 2: The Best NHS This is the second book in our series The Best NHS? and it looks at social care, how it works…
PROVOCATION 2 OUR PROVOCATION • The relentless focus on efficiency in the UK National Health Service has led to a mass production mindset in management…
As long ago as 2015, the author of this book – Stephen Smith – together with his brother Ian, published an article in Health Service Journal predicting…