- Description
- If news stories are to be believed, it can seem as though the NHS is in a constant state of crisis. Professor Judith Smith reviews the pressures in the NHS and discusses what needs to be done
- Date:
- Tuesday 10th December 2019
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- It is fifty years since what most people think of as the first NHS inquiry, what have we learnt?
- Date:
- Wednesday 27th March 2019
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Incremental neglect tips over into significant and costly malfunction; squandered opportunities for strategic renewal and improvement: this is what the squeeze on NHS capital budgets means, writes HSMC's Iestyn Williams.
- Date:
- Friday 8th March 2019
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The presence of self-funders shapes and re-shapes the social care market in ways which have a profound impact and must be seen as integral to the operation of adult social care.
- Date:
- Tuesday 29th January 2019
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The rules need resetting in favour of a newly skilled multi-professional front line for mental health care which is designed around people's needs rather than tweaking an outdated primary/secondary care system that is based on faulty assumptions.
- Date:
- Friday 21st December 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Professor Catherine Needham discusses adult social care services in this Social Sciences Birmingham blog.
- Date:
- Thursday 8th November 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Outcomes for, and treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer, desperately require improvement. Marking Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Hilary Brown (HSMC), Alistair Hewison (MDS) and Keith Roberts (UHB NHS Foundation Trust) consider elements of a multidisciplinary programme of research.
- Date:
- Wednesday 7th November 2018
- Categories:
- Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- HSMC Director Professor Judith Smith in the Viewpoint: "However much the NHS needs this additional funding to ease profound current pressures, it now has to grasp the nettle of how it will change and modernise services to assure politicians and the public of its response to the challenge posed."
- Date:
- Monday 29th October 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
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