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  • Sean Worth on Newsnight

    Sean Worth, Head of the Better Public Services Project at Policy Exchange, takes part in a discussion on Newsnight following Sir David Nicholson's Select Committee appearance. Sean stressed that it is not possible to blame one individual for the failings at Mid Staffordshire hospital, arguing that the entire NHS system is responsible due to a lack of transparency and choice.

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    Mid Staffs

  • Jeremy Hunt on creating a digital NHS

    Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt set out a strategy for using new technologies to improve NHS services, including allowing patients online access to health records by March 2015, the NHS going paperless by 2018 and launching new research that shows how this new approach will improve patient care, reduce paperwork, and save the NHS billions.

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    Jeremy Hunt speech

  • Using Health Data to Develop Better Treatments

    Tim Kelsey, the NHS's National Director for Patients and Information, spoke on how better use of medical data has the potential to improve health, and will discuss ways medicine can become increasingly personalised. His speech was followed by a response from Rohan Silva, Senior Adviser on Policy to the Prime Minister.

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  • All Together Now

    Competitive integration in the NHS

    Perverse incentives in NHS funding structures have greatly increased the number of unnecessary admissions to hospitals over the last ten years by failing to encourage GPs and consultants to work together in the best interests of the patient. This report makes recommendations for encouraging health professionals to work together.

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    Integrated Care

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  • Government to legislate for plain cigarette packaging this year

    05 March 2013 | Government to legislate for plain cigarette packaging this year

    • In an article exploring plans by ministers to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes to deter young people from smoking, The Guardian cites findings from Policy Exchange's 2010 report Cough Up, which found that smoking cost the UK more than £13.74 billion a year.

  • Sean Worth on Newsnight

    05 March 2013 | Sean Worth on Newsnight

    • Sean Worth, Head of Policy Exchange's Better Public Services Project, appeared on Newsnight speaking in response to calls for Chief Executive of the NHS Sir David Nicholson to step down following patient deaths at Mid Stafford Hospital. Sean said you can’t just blame one individual for the failings at the hospital, arguing that the entire NHS system is responsible due to a lack of transparency and choice.

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  • All Together Now: Competitive integration in the NHS

    01 November 2012 | All Together Now: Competitive integration in the NHS

    • Perverse incentives in NHS funding structures have greatly increased the number of unnecessary admissions to hospitals over the last ten years by failing to encourage GPs and consultants to work together in the best interests of the patient. The NHS pay and performance system needs to move away from considering each of their professional groups as an isolated case and encourage them to work together.

  • Implementing GP Commissioning

    04 April 2011 | Implementing GP Commissioning

    • Implementing GP Commissioning suggests that the Health and Social Care Bill’s proposals to abolish every Primary Care Trust (PCT) by 2013 could lead to the new structure replicating the existing system in all but name. The report says that by slowing down the proposed reforms, the potential to deliver real and lasting transformation in the NHS is enormous.

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  • Mid Staffs: Only revolution can bring peace to the NHS

    18 February 2013 | Mid Staffs: Only revolution can bring peace to the NHS

    • Sean Worth, Policy Exchange's Head of the Better Public Services Project, argues that the unnecessary deaths of patients at Mid Stafford Hospital displays the urgent need for NHS reform, with greater accountability and choice. Sean calls for the old-boys' network of trade unions, Royal Colleges and top civil servants at the top of the NHS to be torn down.

  • Putting real power back in the hands of patients

    06 February 2013 | Putting real power back in the hands of patients

    • Sean Worth, Head of Policy Exchange's Better Public Services Project and former special adviser to the Prime Minister, argues that the whole power base governing the NHS is an insiders' club serving the interests of powerful elites and must be smashed so that the NHS can be run for the ordinary people it was set up for.

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