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David Nicholson in charge at the Department of Health!
At the bottom right of the Department of Health website is a tag cloud which is an aggregation of terms that have been highlighted in Department of Health publications. Behind it is a popular tags list...
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What on earth are voluntary sector trustees for?
I have been involved as a trustee or committee member of various voluntary organisations for a long time. Well actually – for a very long time. I have become increasingly concerned that it is us in...
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I am really tired of ‘conversations’ about health
I was pleased to see the recent blog by David Buck at the Kings Fund “Health Inequalities we need a national conversation” calling for more collaboration and clarity between Public Health England, NHS...
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Strengthening Local Voice – The real Health Inequality Challenge?
At the heart of “Due North” is an argument about the need to establish a pan-Northern collaboration which is built on closer relations with the people who live in the North of England. So, I welcome...
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The Voluntary Sector makes little contribution to wellbeing
You would believe the above heading if you were to rely on Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies for your evidence. Of course this is not the case at all. I...
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Not the way to fund a care pathway – the role of the voluntary sector
Recently I was on a panel making decisions on grant applications by voluntary organisations to a one off fund commissioned by Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group. Of the total fund just over...
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Road to Nowhere – PHE response to “Due North” Health Inequalities Report
InfoGraphic by Generation Rent and Piktochart The Due North report on Health Equity was published in September 2014 and in July 2015 Public Health England published their response. When it was first...
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Its not fair! Inequality, the NHS and CCGs
In Sheffield some of us met recently to wrestle with what a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) health inequalities strategy should look like. At the moment this is still very much a discussion rather...
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Health Inequalities,the Voluntary Sector and Public Health England
As Public Health goes through a further spasm following the launch of ‘Healthy, Lives, Healthy People – Update and way forward” (HeLPU&WaF) it would be easy to think that its content describes some...
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Where are health Inequalities, Communities and the Voluntary Sector in the...
The General Practice Forward View is an important document, it sets out how NHS England proposes to support the development of general practice through to 2020/21. It is therefore important for all of...
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