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Adrian Barker
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31 déc. 2016 - 18:51

null The top 10 news stories of 2016 on health and wellbeing policy

2016 is widely seen as being a terrible year, but how was it for health and wellbeing policy? I’ve been doing a weekly update of news items since 2012 but this is the first full year that it’s been on a database with a score of significance for each item.  Which means that, at the touch of a button, I can read off the top 10 news items. Except it’s not quite so straightforward.  For... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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30 nov. 2016 - 15:23

null Progress on the Five Year Forward View

I thought the Five Year Forward View (5YFV) had a lot of promise.  It identified the key issues: “we need to take our own health seriously, change the way services are provided, and yes ask the next government to support us financially”, source: press release) It also pinpointed the key things to focus on: prevention: tackling the root causes of ill health co-production: giving... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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11 sept. 2016 - 20:42

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 4th-11th September 2016

Here are a few of the more significant health and wellbeing policy news items from the last week.  A fuller list is available here.   05 September 2016 The junior doctors' strike planned for September has been called off,  but those for October, November and December are still scheduled to go ahead.  The BMA called off the strike because of concern that the service might... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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04 sept. 2016 - 14:21

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 28th August - 4th September

Here are a few of the more significant health and wellbeing policy news items from the last week.  A fuller list is available here.   31 August 2016 Junior doctors are to hold 5-day strikes every month until the end of the year,  after the BMA Council agreed proposals from the Junior Doctors Committee.  The first strike will be from 8:00 until 5:00 each day from 12th to... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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28 août 2016 - 13:37

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 14th-28th August

There's a fuller list of the health and wellbeing policy news items for the current quarter here, but some of the more significant items of the week are: 18 August 2016 The Government's delayed childhood obesity strategy has been widely criticised  for not going far enough.  It proposes a voluntary target to reduce the amount of sugar in children's food and drink by 5% next year and... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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22 août 2016 - 15:29

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 7th-13th August 2016

There's a fuller list of the health and wellbeing policy news items for the current quarter here, but some of the more significant items of the week are: 08 August 2016 The 'troubled families' programme has had no discernible effect on unemployment, truancy or criminality,  according to an unpublished evaluation report, a senior civil servant has told BBC's Newsnight programme.  The... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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07 août 2016 - 19:26

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 31st July - 7th August

Here are some of the more significant items of health and wellbeing policy news from the last week.  There is a longer list (in date order) here.   02 August 2016 NHS England can legally fund the HIV preventive drug 'Prep',  the High Court has ruled.  NHS England had said it was the responsibility of Public Health within local authorities to provide the drug as it was... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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31 juil. 2016 - 06:24

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 24th-30th July

Here are a few of the more significant health and wellbeing policy news items from the last week.  A fuller list is available here.   28 July 2016 More details of the new voluntary GP contracts have been revealed  in NHS England board papers.  The contracts were announced by David Cameron last year (4th October 2015) in connection with seven day working, but that is not... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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25 juil. 2016 - 08:19

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 15th-24th July 2016

Here are some of the bigger items of health and wellbeing policy news collected in the last week.  A fuller list (in date order) is available here. 21 July 2016 A 'reset' of NHS finances will see trusts and CCGs in special measures and the ending of some fines for waiting times,  NHS England, NHS Improvement and the CQC have announced.  Five NHS trusts and nine CCGs are being... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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16 juil. 2016 - 06:47

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 11th-15th July 2016

Here are some of the bigger stories from last week.  A fuller list (in date order) is available here.   14 July 2016 Jeremy Hunt remains as health secretary,  one of only four Cabinet ministers to retain their role, in the new prime minister, Theresa May's government.  Justine Greening replaced Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State for Education.  Savid Javid moved from... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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11 juil. 2016 - 14:04

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 1st-11th July 2016

There's a longer list of this week's health and wellbeing policy news items on my website, but here are a few of the bigger items: 06 July 2016 The Government is to impose the revised junior doctors' contract,  despite it having been rejected in a ballot of BMA members.  Imposition will start in October and is likely to be completed by autumn the following year.... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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02 juil. 2016 - 15:22

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 27th June - 1st July 2016

Here are a few of the 'bigger' (not necessarily more newsworthy) health and wellbeing policy items from the last week.  There are more at www.equwell.org.uk.   28 June 2016 The UK is in breach of its international human rights obligations,  the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has said.  It said that austerity measures are having a... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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27 juin 2016 - 13:17

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 12-27 June 2016

Clearly the referendum result is eclipsing everything else at the moment, but there has also been quite a lot of health and wellbeing policy news in the last two weeks, albeit rather less momentous.  A lot emerged from the conferences of the NHS Confederation, BMA and Royal College of Nursing but that was mostly motions rather than anything which would necessarily lead to action.There is a... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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05 juin 2016 - 12:50

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 27th May - 5th June

There is a full list of health and wellbeing policy news items from the past week here.  Some of the more significant items were:   The system of serious case reviews is to be overhauled and the legal requirement to have a local safeguarding children's board removed, the Government has indicated (26th May).  Instead there is to be a national framework with 'local learning... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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27 mai 2016 - 17:15

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 23-27 May 2016

There's a full list of this week's health and wellbeing policy new items here, but a few of the key ones are: David Cameron has said he will take action on antimicrobial resistance (26th).  This follows the publication of Jim O'Neill's report last week.  The measures announced so far include setting targets and £50m towards a fund to incentivise drugs companies to produce new... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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23 mai 2016 - 15:26

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 16-23 May 2016

 It's been a big news week for health and wellbeing policy.  More detail can be found here, but a few of the key items are:   Agreement in the junior doctors' dispute was finally reached between the Government and the BMA (18th).  The deal now has to be put to a ballot of members and many are apparently unhappy with it.  Jeremy Hunt insisted that the Government had... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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16 mai 2016 - 15:20

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News

I have been doing a weekly health and wellbeing policy update for some time now.  The full details can be found here, but a few of the highlights from the past week include: The NHS has had its busiest year on record with many targets not met (12th) Workforce planning in the NHS has been criticised by the Public Accounts Committee, which questions whether the Government knows the... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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30 oct. 2014 - 11:17

null What a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy should include

[A more detailed version of this blog appears here.]   How can Health and Wellbeing Boards make the most difference?  I think it’s through Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s).  No, wait, come back.  Hear me out.  OK, so they’re not making that much difference at the moment (I’d love to hear of any examples where they are) but they could.   Of... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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16 sept. 2014 - 09:19

null What makes for good public health research?

Some reflections on my role on a NIHR board making recommendations on grants for public health research* We are constantly being bombarded with public health advice – don’t smoke, lose weight, only eat saturated fats if they’ve got the right number of carbon atoms.  But there remain huge gaps in our knowledge.  Fortunately, grants are available for high quality research, but what... Voir plus
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Adrian Barker
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11 sept. 2014 - 09:07

null A Framework for Identifying Aspects for Improvement

I was reflecting on experiences of various meetings last week, and it struck me that they quite neatly fall into categories I’ve used in the past to assess why organisations don’t follow good practice or improve.  These were cases, all to do with community engagement, where I could clearly see that something was wrong – sometimes it was my fault and sometimes down to other people. ... Voir plus
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