Nigel Crisp steps down from NHS amid financial pressures

Borrowing to save: can NHS bodies ease financial pressures by terminating PFI contracts?

Patient power needs to be built on strong intellectual foundations: an essay by Nigel Crisp.

There are many parallels between the current reforms in the English NHS and those under way elsewhere in the world. Almost all these programmes focus on market solutions and on changing the relationship between the public and private sectors. Most also emphasise prevention and the need to combat the epidemic of non-communicable diseases. These similarities are particularly striking because diff...

Nigel Raine

An interview with Nigel Raine, researcher at the University of Guelph, Canada on the behaviour and ecology of bees, and the impacts of environmental stressors on pollinator populations.

Health amid a financial crisis: a complex diagnosis.

Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert, senior adviser on disease control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, remembers the last time the wheels came off the global economy. “There was less travel and purchase of cars and motorcycles. Sales of alcohol – as well as tobacco – were reduced. These factors resulted in fewer deaths and injuries in road accidents,” he says. Wibulpolprasert’s rather upbeat rema...

Improving Quality and Productivity in the Nhs Whilst Facing the Financial Pressures a Joint Statement from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Healthcare Financial Management Association and the Nhs Confederation

In the White Paper “Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS” the Government has set out a clear and welcome commitment to putting the needs of patients and the public at the heart of the NHS and to improving healthcare outcomes. But the Government recognises that in order to maintain and improve services in line with its objectives there will have to be significant savings made in current exp...