Just returned from Dublin, where I attended the International Health Economics Association annual conference. I’m amazed at how far health economics has progressed in the last 20 years. In the late….
After devolution in the UK, there are now four versions of one National Health Service. Hardly anyone is paying attention to this fact. A huge opportunity is being wasted. Not….
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ launch is accompanied by some of the most stark evidence of inequalities that exist in England. These include north-south divides, as well as….
Simon Stevens, NHS England’s Health New Towns Programme was announced by Simon Stevens last month. Public Health England will support the program, which will work with ten housing developments in order to….
The Health Select Committee, with the Department of Health, is expected to publish its response to consultations on Healthy Lives and Healthy People before their summer break and has focused its attention….
Public Health England is now closed, more than a year since staff learned of its closure via a press leak on a weekend night. It is now the home of its….
Claire Murdoch, national director of mental health for England, argued recently that certain sustainability and transformation plans fail to do ‘justice with mental health. What would a judge look like? The….
In one of our most popular and commented-on Time to Think Differently blogs last year, how they plan to reduce inequalities. Public Health England, on the other hand, has quietly launched a conversation about….
The delivery of clinical care is based on careful research to determine the most effective way of providing care for patients. At the same time, the NHS spends huge amounts….
2013 report on the evidence surrounding how local authorities can make the most out of their existing functions to improve the Health of their citizens, including green space and its….
