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Adrian Barker
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31 Dec 2016 - 18:51

null The top 10 news stories of 2016 on health and wellbeing policy

2016 is widely seen as being a terrible year, but how was it for health and wellbeing policy? I’ve been doing a weekly update of news items since 2012 but this is the first full year that it’s been on a database with a score of significance for each item.  Which means that, at the touch of a button, I can read off the top 10 news items. Except it’s not quite so straightforward.  For... See more
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Adrian Barker
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30 Nov 2016 - 15:23

null Progress on the Five Year Forward View

I thought the Five Year Forward View (5YFV) had a lot of promise.  It identified the key issues: “we need to take our own health seriously, change the way services are provided, and yes ask the next government to support us financially”, source: press release) It also pinpointed the key things to focus on: prevention: tackling the root causes of ill health co-production: giving... See more
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Adrian Barker
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11 Sep 2016 - 20:42

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 4th-11th September 2016

Here are a few of the more significant health and wellbeing policy news items from the last week.  A fuller list is available here.   05 September 2016 The junior doctors' strike planned for September has been called off,  but those for October, November and December are still scheduled to go ahead.  The BMA called off the strike because of concern that the service might... See more
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Adrian Barker
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16 Jul 2016 - 06:47

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 11th-15th July 2016

Here are some of the bigger stories from last week.  A fuller list (in date order) is available here.   14 July 2016 Jeremy Hunt remains as health secretary,  one of only four Cabinet ministers to retain their role, in the new prime minister, Theresa May's government.  Justine Greening replaced Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State for Education.  Savid Javid moved from... See more
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Adrian Barker
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05 Jun 2016 - 12:50

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 27th May - 5th June

There is a full list of health and wellbeing policy news items from the past week here.  Some of the more significant items were:   The system of serious case reviews is to be overhauled and the legal requirement to have a local safeguarding children's board removed, the Government has indicated (26th May).  Instead there is to be a national framework with 'local learning... See more
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27 May 2016 - 17:15

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News 23-27 May 2016

There's a full list of this week's health and wellbeing policy new items here, but a few of the key ones are: David Cameron has said he will take action on antimicrobial resistance (26th).  This follows the publication of Jim O'Neill's report last week.  The measures announced so far include setting targets and £50m towards a fund to incentivise drugs companies to produce new... See more
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Adrian Barker
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16 May 2016 - 15:20

null Health and Wellbeing Policy News

I have been doing a weekly health and wellbeing policy update for some time now.  The full details can be found here, but a few of the highlights from the past week include: The NHS has had its busiest year on record with many targets not met (12th) Workforce planning in the NHS has been criticised by the Public Accounts Committee, which questions whether the Government knows the... See more
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Adrian Barker
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27 Jun 2015 - 19:15

null A Strategic Framework for Health and Wellbeing

As I’ve written before (here and here) I think there is tremendous potential for Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) to make a huge difference through their Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWSs).  But it’s deceptively complex. So I drew a diagram (attached) that sets out the key elements a strategy could focus on – those things that could make most long term difference to... See more
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Adrian Barker
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30 Oct 2014 - 11:17

null What a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy should include

[A more detailed version of this blog appears here.]   How can Health and Wellbeing Boards make the most difference?  I think it’s through Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWS’s).  No, wait, come back.  Hear me out.  OK, so they’re not making that much difference at the moment (I’d love to hear of any examples where they are) but they could.   Of... See more
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Adrian Barker
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16 Sep 2014 - 09:19

null What makes for good public health research?

Some reflections on my role on a NIHR board making recommendations on grants for public health research* We are constantly being bombarded with public health advice – don’t smoke, lose weight, only eat saturated fats if they’ve got the right number of carbon atoms.  But there remain huge gaps in our knowledge.  Fortunately, grants are available for high quality research, but what... See more
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Adrian Barker
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01 Sep 2014 - 15:35

null Are you ‘a people’?

I was struck by a blog I read recently asking, ‘Am I not a people?’ The (very interesting) blog was asking whether civil servants can substitute themselves for ‘real people’ in the policy making process.  The answer was, no.  Though of course they are ‘real’, with “family, a kitchen to clean, bills to pay, hopes and dreams of my own”, the civil servant (or other person... See more
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Adrian Barker
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12 Jul 2014 - 13:10

null Co-production in health and social care

  Do you think there's a need for people to seek to work more closely with those responsible for health, the providers of social care and the deliverers of other services? And by 'those responsible for health' I mean, of course, the general public and by 'the providers of social care' I mean the unsung and unrewarded army of unpaid carers. Should the public service professionals ask... See more
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