Getting the best NHS deal for Manchester
There must be an election coming. After five years of making savage cuts to council budgets, and five years of fragmenting and privatising, George Osborne has waited until five weeks before this...
View ArticleA Manchester Health Service… MHS or NHS?
At what scale are things best organised? That is at the heart of so many of our big debates today – Scottish independence, UK independence, devolution. And yet the debate rarely takes place with a deep...
View ArticleDevoManc, DevoMancHealth and the perils of techno-fixes
This week’s big news in Manchester is that the devolution of direct responsibility for significant areas public spending to the city-region will now be augmented by the devolution of the entire NHS...
View ArticleDevo All – The Role for Local Authorities (in England)
It has long been SHA policy that greater democratic accountability should be introduced into our health care system. The NHS has never had any form of effective accountability. Since there are already...
View ArticleWhat I don’t want for the NHS in Manchester
I know nothing about writing blogs – but I know what I don’t want for the NHS in Manchester; 1. I do not want the NHS to be “devolved” to a bunch of Council Leaders with no clinical knowledge...
View ArticleDevoManc: does the future of health and social care start here?
Devolution has been coming to Greater Manchester (GM) for some time. The recent announcement that the total health and social care budget for GM – £6bn – is to be included as part of the devolution...
View ArticleThe Five Year Forward View – Plan To Destroy The NHS
Simon Stevens, the new chief executive of NHS England, former President of global health at UnitedHealth, a large US health corporation, proposed the Five Year Forward View in October 2014. Five Year...
View ArticleThe potential of Devo Manc
How devolution deal has the power to improve health, care and lifestyles for people in Greater Manchester Last week’s historic health devolution agreement signed in Greater Manchester puts local people...
View ArticleGreater Manchester Devolution Package
An MPU-Unite Statement SUMMARY What follows is an analysis of why we feel ‘DevoManc’ is the wrong solution to the correct question – how can we integrate health and social care locally under a national...
View ArticleSadiq Khan has a chance to kickstart dementia policy in London
I am very excited actually. Why? Today’s the day it’s likely one of my Twitter followers becomes Labour’s new mayor. Time to draw a line under Boris Johnson’s suffocating air quality, and the perennial...
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