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- The NHS in Cornwall – as seen by a patient with a scientific background
- GPs say they want to hear patients’ views, but they aren’t inviting patient participation groups to ‘road test’ their surgeries’ new websites
- The NHS needs joined-up thinking: an open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
- Closing community hospitals in Essex and Cornwall: new dogs but same old tricks!
- Closing Edward Hain Community Hospital: what we have learned
- CONSULTATION: Closing a community hospital: how consultation went wrong
- ‘Overstaying’ patients in Cornwall’s main acute hospital: a problem that calls for careful monitoring and ongoing collaboration
- Patient flow in an acute hospital: learning from system failures
- GPs: Tell your patients how your surgery works
- ‘Choose well’ is not good advice to people in need of NHS care
- Review of the draft Integrated Care Strategy for Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
- The PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the governance of Cornwall’s Integrated Care System: an opportunity missed
- ‘Medically fit for discharge’ does not mean ‘fit to go somewhere else’
- Passing the buck to social care
- How NHS England, top doctors and acute hospitals MANUFACTURE need for social care, and why we need to rediscover convalescence
- How Cornwall’s Integrated Care System got off to a stumbling start
- Cornwall’s Integrated Care Board is looking for a spin doctor
- A wake-up call for general practice
- If we want to keep our NHS, we need an alliance between GPs and patients
- NHS England’s planning in disarray again as management consultants recruited to help with elective recovery
- BED-BLOCKING: blaming it all on care services is buck-passing
- Should you ask management consultants to design your integrated care system?
- GOOD-PRACTICE GUIDELINES for health and social care surveys
- TEAMWORK: How a lack of teamwork at the Royal Cornwall Hospital contributed to the death of a child with autism
- DELAYED TRANSFERS OF CARE: Problems of definition, measurement and governance
- For the record: An assessment of policy-making by NHS Kernow, Cornwall’s clinical commissioning group
- HOW TO LOOK AFTER YOURSELF IN HOSPITAL (second edition)
POSTS
- COMMENT: Lost hospitals would have been perfect for reablement 5 November 2021
- EXPLAINER: Why ambulances are queueing outside Treliske 10 September 2021
- ANALYSIS: Does Cornwall really have enough hospital beds? 9 September 2021
- CORNWALL’S NEW INTEGRATED CARE SYSTEM: WHAT WE ARE HOPING FOR 25 June 2021
- REINVENTING THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL 19 January 2021
- Backroom visionaries or frontline practitioners: who should shape Cornwall’s integrated health and care system? 20 July 2020
- A systems view of health and social care: structures, processes and teams 12 July 2020
- A new health and care system – but where are the voices of care homes and patients? 2 July 2020
- Has the Embrace Care project been made use of for political purposes? Cornwall’s frail older folk deserve better. 19 June 2020
- Does Cornwall really need two NHS hospital trusts? 15 March 2020
- How to get better value for money from Cornwall’s NHS hospitals 9 February 2020
- An appeal to Simon Stevens: Please intervene in Cornwall’s inadequate planning for integrated health and social care services 22 July 2019
- Inpatient beds that Edward Hain hospital provided are still needed 8 July 2019
- Implementing the NHS Long Term Plan at local level: a new approach in Cornwall 19 June 2019
- Don’t close community hospitals: use them as re-ablement centres 24 January 2019
- We don’t want a prima donna to head the hospitals trust 6 January 2019
- The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is headhunting. Applicants should ask questions about its culture. 1 January 2019
- ‘How patients’ stories improve health services’ 19 December 2018
- “Coco’s death also about the professionals’ lack of respect” 8 November 2018
- Health and Social Care: Cornwall doesn’t need an ‘Integrated Care Provider’ 4 October 2018
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust update: With a new (interim) Chief Executive, could a change in culture be on the way? 11 August 2018
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: Is one person able to do the Chief Executive’s job? 31 July 2018
- Learning from patient feedback: a case-study in NHS culture and practice 20 May 2018
- ‘Hierarchical trust can’t claim credit’ (letter published in The Cornishman, 19 April 2018) 20 April 2018
- Credit where credit is due! So well done to everyone who helped turn round the situation in A&E at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske (Truro). Now the right lessons must be learned. 15 April 2018
- Six bungles and no funeral: The short life, unmourned death and high cost of Cornwall’s Sustainability and Transformation Plan for the NHS (SHORT REPORT) 10 April 2018
- Six bungles and no funeral: The short life, unmourned death and high cost of Cornwall’s Sustainability and Transformation Plan for the NHS (FULL REPORT) 10 April 2018
- Cornwall is to have Urgent Treatment Centres – so will Minor Injury Units disappear? 1 March 2018
- An Accountable Care System for Cornwall: Is ‘Shaping our Future’ now an exercise in empire-building? 22 January 2018
- Minor Injury Units: “Absolutely no decisions have been made …” Which means what, exactly? 15 January 2018
- NHS in Cornwall poised to close Minor Injury Units 3 January 2018
- Five kinds of nonsense are keeping a community hospital closed 4 October 2017
- Cornwall’s STP: Why we need to see what’s going on 12 September 2017
- Community hospitals under threat: Are decisions being taken on scrappy information and limited understanding? 7 August 2017
- Communications and engagement in health and social care: A cautionary tale from Cornwall 12 July 2017
- The STP engagement survey: What have we learned? 13 April 2017
- Cornwall councillors’ verdict on STP engagement process: ‘ill-conceived’ and ‘unprofessional’ 5 April 2017
- The STP survey: Why am I finding it so difficult to have my say? 17 January 2017
- NHS Kernow’s NHS 111 and out-of-hours questionnaire: not fit for purpose 17 January 2017
- An assessment of the STP: Health and Social Care at risk in Cornwall 10 January 2017
- How not to run a Health and Social Care Survey, as demonstrated by Cornwall Council and NHS Kernow 2 May 2016
- Involving the Public in NHS Commissioning: A Culture Clash in Cornwall 1 May 2016