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COMMENT p20-23 Dame Gill Morgan, chair of the Foundation Trust Network, which is changing its name to NHS Providers, gives an update on the organisation’s programme over the course of the next Parliament, plus Dr Janet Harrison of Loughborough University explores the role of training and development in tackling the NHS funding gap.
PROCUREMENT p24-32
An interview with the Department of Health’s procurement champion Lord Carter of Coles, a special investigation into support from the centre for developing eProcurement, plus how one of the best- performing e-enabled trusts, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, has achieved its procurement successes.
QUALITY AND BEST PRACTICE p34-37 NHE has coverage from this year’s Best Practice show in Birmingham, and a look at how quality improvement is possible through peer review and accreditation standards.
COMMISSIONING p38-44
Interviewees include Dr Simon Bowers of Liverpool CCG and Dr Marc Rowland, who has just taken up the post of chair of London’s Clinical Commissioning Council. 2020health discuss the commissioning of HIV services for older people.
INTEGRATED CARE p45-57 Dr Rachael Addicott, a senior research fellow at The King’s Fund, has four lessons for contracting integrated care; and we interview Rick Stern of the NHS Alliance and Chris Hopson of the Foundation Trust Network on bridging the divide between primary and secondary care.
RECORDS, DATA AND DOCUMENTS p58-67 All NHS patient and care records will be digital, real-time and interoperable by 2020, under new plans unveiled by national health and social care organisations. David Stevenson reports.
WORKFORCE WELLBEING AND DEVELOPMENT p68-73 Contributors include NMC chief executive Jackie Smith; John Lewis Partnership chair Sir Charlie Mayfi eld; Kaiser Permanente’s vice- president of employee safety, health and wellness, and environmental stewardship offi cer Kathy Gerwig; and the ‘New Chartered Director of the Year’, Sue Symington, who is a non-executive director at Harrogate and District NHS FT.
KEEPING STAFF AND PATIENTS SAFE p74-79 A look at how two mental health and learning disability trusts are handling the lone worker protection contract, and NHE also hears from NHS Improving Quality and the Academic Health Science Networks about the new Patient Safety Collaboratives.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr Dave Haslam is a General Practitioner in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire and Clinical Director of the National
Obesity Forum. He specialises in obesity and also holds positions as Trustee of the Foundations Charity and is Executive Director, PCOS UK.
Andrew
MacPherson is Director of Strategic Projects & Delivery at the
NHS Strategic Projects Team, now hosted by the Greater East Midlands CSU. He was one of the architects of the Friends & Family Test and is working with NHS England on its implementation.
Susie Sanderson is Executive Board Chair for the British Dental Association, Honorary
Treasurer and Board member of the Council of European Dentists and a member of the Board of Medical Education England and its subsidiary Dental Programme Board.
Dr Mike Knapton is Associate Medical Director (Prevention and Care) at the British Heart
Foundation and a part-time GP in Cambridge. He is also a non- executive director at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Nina Pinwill Nina Pinwill is the Associate Director with responsibility for topic selection at
the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
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