This is long overdue – if it does come and I hope it does, lets hope its directed insightfully not just based on pumping more money into a failing system. The answer lies in creating micro-enterprises of mutualized care workers addressing market failure by directing more of the available resource to delivery rather than on-costs. […]

Our work on the challenges facing rural health settings is in part at least focused on the sort of staff shortages that underpin stories like this:

A private healthcare company has sent letters to hundreds of GPs setting out a price list of operations they could offer their patients to beat NHS delays and restrictions.

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At the RSN seminar discussion in Shrewsbury today the big discussion item in terms of health was the challenge of recruiting rural health care professionals. I understand there is a culture at the moment, as winter draws in, of demanding personal guarantees for performance from senior NHS staff. Who is answerable to for failing to […]