Civitas Health Unit

The health unit aims to:

• Facilitate informed and unassuming debate among key stakeholders and the grassroots of the medical profession, to help build consensus on the future of health care in the UK.


• Bring fresh thinking to problems facing the NHS through frontline analysis and careful consideration of what could be learnt from other health systems.


• Focus on what matters: patient-centred, safe and integrated health care, provided by empowered clinicians.

Latest:

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  Reform at the mercy of government
  - James Gubb, Aug/Sept 2008
  Market-based health care reforms in the UK have been crippled by the government’s unwillingness to stop directing the service from the centre.


• Publication:

  'Quite like heaven? Options for the NHS in a consumer age'
  A comprehensive evaluation of NHS structures and performance, looking at alternative options for NHS reform in a consumer age.
  - Nick Seddon, November 2007


• Event:
  Darzi Review. Commission impossible? Is world class commissioning achievable in the NHS?
  - 16 July 2008, House of Commons


• Resource:
  Stats on NHS performance: a useful graphical overview of what the NHS has achieved with its extra money since 2000, in terms of inputs, outputs and quality.