There appears to be a fundamental mismatch between politicians and clinicians views of the crisis, so here are the facts.
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Seventeen years ago, the Department of Health berated the NHS for not learning lessons about patient safety. What’s changed?
From April 2017, payments to adult mental health services in the UK must be linked to outcomes. But it’s a bad idea.
Unless the government matches spending by other Western governments, the health service will fail.
Theresa May shouldn’t look to France, Germany or Switzerland for alternative healthcare models. They have problems of their own.
Trials into the effectiveness of drugs and treatments struggle to recruit enough participants, yet we rely on their results anyway.
Poor testing methods and antibiotic use by GPs and urologists has left thousands of women with crippling infections.
Harsh tales of mothers and fathers thrust into the court system as they seek the best treatment for a sick child are a warning.
Listen up junior doctors, here is your survival guide.
A judge has found that NHS England cannot reasonably refuse to fund anti-HIV drugs for gay men. This is a major step forward.
More people will go into nursing after bursaries are scrapped, but fewer than the NHS needs.
Some 85% of research into drugs and treatments ends up on the cutting room floor but not all of that should.
Data-privacy advocates may have won the care.data battle, but it looks like they’re about to lose the war.
Some good news for UK government policy.
Heavy clouds are on the horizon for NHS England – and older people will suffer the worst in this downpour.
Thanks to Brexit the NHS will be under-funded and short-staffed. Also, you might not receive free emergency healthcare if you travel to Europe.
To tackle obesity, the NHS is experimenting with financial incentives, dieting clubs and free exercise classes. But what about prescribing digital fitness trackers?
Migrants have been accused of ‘clogging up the NHS’. But where would the NHS be without them?
What will happen to immigration, wages and the economy has been discussed at length. But the price of drugs may also be affected.
The Alzheimer’s Society is concerned that people with dementia aren’t getting diagnosed soon enough. But there are pros and cons to an early diagnosis.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor for Responsible Business, Middlesex University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of York
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Economics, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Economics, City St George's, University of London