Health

Health

Power to the patient

Designing the NHS around the patient, providing more patient choice and control.

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David Skelton on BBC London

As debate over the Health and Social Care Bill continues and further controversy ensues when Andrew Lansley is confronted with the accusation of privatising the NHS David Skelton argues reform of the NHS is needed for a more efficient delivery of healthcare in the UK

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The Future of the NHS

With Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, Rt Hon Baroness Shirley Williams and Rt Hon Alan Milburn.

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Policy Fight Club

Drugs: Time to legalise?

Starring Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP, Peter Hitchens, Tom Lloyd QPM, Dr Hans-Christian Raabe and Professor Sir Ian Gilmore.

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Implementing GP Commissioning

The study finds that the Government has lost many potential supporters inside and outside the NHS because they have pressed ahead with handing more responsibility to GPs without winning backing for the policy from them. By slowing down the proposed reforms, the potential to deliver real and lasting transformation in the NHS is enormous.

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06 March 2012 | Compassionate Conservatives find it's time to think again
- The Guardian highlights Policy Exchange's 10th birthday, calling us the most influential thinktank in Britain, and citing our past successes as well as our future policy plans such as ending national pay bargaining and moving child poverty measures to a 'causes of poverty' target.
21 February 2012 | David Skelton on BBC London
- Policy Exchange's Director of Research David Skelton appears on BBC London arguing that reforms to the NHS are vital.

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.
25 November 2010 | Incentivising Wellness: Improving the treatment of long-term conditions
- Incentivising Wellness shows how the NHS can save tens of billions of pounds while also taking better care of one of the UK’s fastest-growing diseases – diabetes.

21 February 2012 | Is the NHS reform bill a cure for Britain’s healthcare ills?
- David Skelton argues in CityA.M. that NHS reforms are necessary to ensure that it continues to prosper in a fast-changing environment.
22 November 2011 | Where next for NHS reform?
- Deputy Director of Policy Exchange David Skelton writes on politics.co.uk setting out what the Coalition has to do to push through much needed reforms and efficiency savings.

17 May 2012 | Diane Abbott keynote speech
- Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health, will deliver a speech providing fresh, new thinking on health and families - marking her intention to put families at the heart of policies on public health, calling for a ‘family-led health revolution’, and warning of the far-reaching consequences of Britain’s ‘forgotten families’.
22 November 2011 | The Future of the NHS
- This event will bring together three of the biggest figures in the whole healthcare debate, Stephen Dorrell MP, Baroness Shirley Williams and Alan Milburn, in a wide-ranging discussion about the future of the NHS.

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