Really pleased to see the campaigning work of the new National Centre for Rural Health and Care achieving some national profile. This story tells us:
Professor John Appleby, the Nuffield Trust’s chief economist and director of research, said: “The evidence is mounting that small […]
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 […]
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More than 1 million patients unable to get NHS dentist amid rising tooth decay crisis
Why are we not surprised that a significant proportion of those places with the lowest levels of dentist availability are rural! This story tells us:
Access issues exist in every English region, but Lincolnshire is the area worst hit, followed by parts of Norfolk, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire and Cornwall, according to the NHS data.
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