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Entries by Giles Piercy
Volunteering can be the catalyst for NHS Hospitals to build healthier more resilient communities.
Andrew Lansley’s reforms of the health system (in 2012) created the commissioner/provider spilt, effectively putting providers such as hospital trusts into a position where their primary focus was to treat patients when “commissioned” to do so. In effect, hospital trusts, one of the most significant components of our health and care system, were deliberately distanced […]
Work at our level don’t ask us to work at yours
Giles Piercy as part of his involvement in Power to Change’s Community of Practice recently wrote this blog for Power to Change’s website you can read here
Imagine if almost £100bn of England’s health and social care budget was controlled by communities of less than 8,000 people.
That is a reality in the Faroe Islands. Almost 35% of the Faroe Islands’ health and social care budget is controlled by local councils covering populations ranging from 2,000 to 7,000. Give or take, the Faroes spend a bit more per head on health and social care than we do in England. The Faroes are, […]
