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 […]
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
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, […]
The debate around whether public services should be run by the private sector or the public sector, is one that is often driven by dogma rather than any dispassionate assessment about what will actually be best for people and their communities. One significant absence is the failure to ask: “could the community not do this […]
