Achieving high quality care for all has always been the focus of this site. As we’ve been exploring recently, however, with changing fiscal times must come new strategies for ensuring that Lord Darzi’s vision, around which the whole NHS has now organised, continues to be met. Efficiency must be our new watchword – only by [...]

While we’re on the subject of issues on which we’d like your input, and on which you don’t have much longer to give it, The Big Care Debate has only one more month left to run. You’ll remember that this consultation takes as its basis the Shaping The Future of Care Together Green Paper, and [...]

Kate Bleasdale – Executive Vice Chairman, Healthcare Locums (HCL) The UK’s growing and ageing population is going to have a massive impact on the way healthcare staffing is managed and the issues should be raised sooner rather than later Nineteen years ago I wrote my Master’s thesis on what I and others call the UK’s [...]

Following the transfer, which took place on 1 October, NHS PASA’s professional services, temporary staffing and audit function has been integrated into Buying Solutions’ existing professional services category. To ensure a smooth transition for existing PASA customers and suppliers, a helpdesk has been set up to deal with any enquiries. The number is (0118) 980 [...]

A national initiative, designed to promote best practice and improve quality of life for people living and working in care homes, has been launched with the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. My Home Life, a charitable venture supported by the recently merged Age Concern and Help the Aged, City University London and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, aims [...]

The government is using face-transforming software to encourage the public to have their say on its proposals for a radical reform of the care system. People using the online software application will be encouraged to comment on the government’s plans for a National Care Service and other changes to the care system. These include changes to [...]

Do people get happier as they age, as one study today suggests, or do happy people just live longer? Speaking from the view of 54, I feel more at peace and, yes, happier, than I did 20 or 30 years ago. I know my kids agonize over small things, and understand most things are small things. Keeping [...]