The NHS at Sixty

Not Too Old at Sixty

David Oliver: Is the NHS at war?

What else could explain such repeated economy with the truth from health ministers and the Department of Health’s own “war information ministry” (or press office) when discussing NHS funding, efficiencies, and services? And the supposedly independent NHS England does too little to challenge the misinformation. Propaganda includes confident but incredible assertions and denials, the burying of i...

The Sixty - Ninth

IT is a privilege to have been asked to give the sixty-ninth Mary Scott Newbold Lecture. The list of my predecessors is indeed distinguished. The topic, cardiac failure, was chosen because my colleagues and I have been concerned with this problem for almost a quarter of a century. In this lecture I propose to outline my present concepts based on the evolution of thinking which has resulted from...

Knowledge Management in the Nhs. a Survey of Knowledge-based Practice at Nottinghamshire Healthcare Nhs Trust

BACKGROUND Since the early 1990s, the National Health Service (NHS) has seen the encouragement and growth of research-based practice – described here on, as evidence-based practice (EBP). This policy has been promoted nationally by the UK Department of Health. As a consequence there has been a profusion of guidance, policy documents and service requirements disseminated to all levels of the NHS...

Putting the public at the heart of the NHS.