Important editorial piece by @nigel-edwards.bsky.social and @drlkvaughan.bsky.social Amos & Ockenden have not revealed a new phenomenon in maternity care. Rather reignited focus on a chronic culture crisis. Importantly it recognises that such issues are endemic across modern healthcare.

UK maternity inquiries: 25 years of the same diagnosis

Problems will continue while underlying causes remain unaddressed English maternity units have a long and tragic history of causing avoidable death and serious harm to women and their babies. The UK...

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Repeated reviews in maternity (and other areas) have not really go to the bottom of the issues - often because they are genuinely hard to understand. And so the pattern repeats. bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Repeated reviews in maternity (and other areas) have not really go to the bottom of the issues - often because they are genuinely hard to understand. And so the pattern repeats. bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Providers have a key role in Neighbourhood health - my report for NAPC. napc.co.uk/providers-an...

Providers and Neighbourhood Health - NAPC

This paper looks at how providers need to adjust to work effectively with neighbourhood health models.

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🆕 The commissioning layer of the NHS has been its most reorganised part – and it is changing again. A guest article from @nigel-edwards.bsky.social looks at what needs to happen for ICB-led strategic commissioning to succeed where other models have struggled www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/co...

Commissioning: lessons from the last 30 years and implications for the new role of ICBs

Since its introduction in 1990, the commissioning layer of the NHS has been the most reorganised part of the health service, and it is changing once again. In this guest article, Nigel Edwards reviews...

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Greg has been making this pointfor some time. I am slightly surprised that people are just waking up to this. Often the major driver of projected future deficits is a large % term for non-demographic growth. It's often huge, and in the 100s of slides that often follow it is never mentioned again

Greg Fell@felly500.bsky.social · 6mo ago

what is driving hospital activity growth – gizmos and “innovation” not “ageing” and demographics. short, slightly ranty, post gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/w...

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US Freezes All Funds To Gavi Over Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal - Health Policy Watch

The US government has frozen funds to Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, until it commits to a plan to phase out the preservative thimerosal from all the

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A relatively short piece of guidance, a huge work programme ahead for the health and care system to put the Neighbourhood into the NHS (the Neighbourhood Health Service, that is). @nigel-edwards.bsky.social & I assess the scale of the challenge for @pplthinks.bsky.social ppl.org.uk/neighbourhoo...

Neighbourhood Health Guidelines 2025/26 - PPL

Alongside the NHS Planning Guidance for 2025/26, NHS England has published further guidance on the development of neighbourhood working.  The intent is to accelerate the creation of a ‘neighbourhood h...

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