Thoughts on the NHS Five Year Forward View

  Professor Ian Shaw Back in March I blogged about how the Five Year Forward View (FYFW) introduced by NHS Chief Exec Simon Stevens was effectively `Reforming the 2012 NHS Reforms’  . This blueprint for the future of the NHS, to be delivered within one parliament, was signed up to by the Conservative Party and …

Reforming the NHS reforms – the quiet side-lining of the Health and Social Care Act 2012

By Ian Shaw As widely anticipated the Health and Social Care Act has been a bit of a disaster… There has been more clinical engagement, especially with GPs, which is a good thing but the re-organisation led to a very complex organisational and governance structure (for example anyone know what clinical councils actually do? – …