UK considers new compensation plan for NHS

UK government spells out new plan for NHS in England.

1329 Nigel Hawkes LONDON GP commissioning consortiums in England will be obliged to include two lay members, a hospital specialist, and a nurse on their boards, the government has announced. Their name will be changed from GP or GP led consortiums to “clinical commissioning groups,” and they will be required to meet in public and publish their minutes. To avoid conflicts of interest the nurse a...

The NHS plan and clinicians.

The NHS Plan issued in July 2000 is being implemented and is fundamentally trying to modernise the NHS using new organisational arrangements. At its heart is the desire to make the NHS more responsive to what the public wants and sensitive to individuals' needs and rights. National clinical priorities and targets have been identified, including emergency care, time to elective treatment, cancer...

The NHS Plan: An Economic Perspective

The NHS Plan, published in July 2000, presented an ambitious blueprint for the transformation of the way the NHS delivers health care. The backdrop to the Plan is the substantial increase in resources for the NHS promised for the next 5 years. At the heart of the Plan is the aim of ensuring these resources are used effectively to provide a health service “designed around the patient”. After rev...

Will the NHS strategic plan benefit patients?

The first principle of the Toyota way, one of the world’s most successful management systems, is to base decisions on a long term philosophy that generates value for the individual, society, and the economy.1 The new strategic plan for the NHS (which, although often called the Darzi report, results from a year long strategic planning exercise involving thousands of NHS staff) is of internationa...

The new UK antimicrobial resistance strategy and action plan.