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Government consults on Healthwatch membership
The Government last week launched a public consultation seeking views on the membership of Healthwatch England. Healthwatch England will be the ‘consumers champion’ under the NHS reforms. It will be...
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NHS research up close and personal: ‘Research People’ site tells the stories...
Returned from half-term leave today thinking that I might write about the latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) patient experience survey. After a while looking at the results I began to think: is there...
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We need more than better chat-up lines to increase participation in research
‘Pedestrian freight.’ It is a term I had not come across until last week. I believe it is the phrase once used inside train companies to describe you and I, the commuters who throng with fortitude...
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HSJ ‘Progressive Research Culture’ Award 2012: Open for entries
It’s that time of year again to get your local NHS Trust to enter this year’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) ‘Progressive Research Culture’ Award. This follows the success of last year’s award which saw...
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Are you a patient? Then, I’m holding you for questioning. You have the right...
Just in case you had missed it, it’s all about patient experience from now on! And a good thing too. Or, at the very least, it seems the intention is to ask people more questions about their...
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The NHS Commissioning Board Draft Mandate and patients in health research
The Shard went up (officially). And the NHS Commissioning Board Draft Mandate came down from on high. All on the same day. Add the odd torrential downpour with its associated misery and these could...
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Our NHS: If there is a patient on board could they please make themselves...
The NHS would appear to be suffering an in-flight emergency. It is locked on auto-pilot. The cabin crew are unsure what to do. A few are close to panic. The nature of the problem is unclear. The causes...
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Is Healthwatch England, Barking up the wrong tree?
Call me simple-minded but it never bodes well for an organisation in my view, if WORD persists in underlining your name in red. I should know. Nor does it bode well if your strategy doesn’t fit on one...
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Simon Stevens puts innovation and patients as innovators front-of-house in NHS
Simon Stevens, the relatively new NHS Chief Executive, put innovation front-of-house in his speech to the NHS Confederation yesterday. He identified it as one of three elements crucial to...
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Research in the NHS: I couldn’t put it better than Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust
Recently I decided to ‘Follow’ as many of the NHS organisations (Trusts, CCGs etc) as I could find on Twitter. The main reason was that as we ratchet up what we do around the patient access to research...
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