Michael Dixon: Carpe diem—the politicians have had their day, now it’s time for doctors to seize the initiative

It is all over now. The Health and Social Care Bill has been passed. The politicians have moved on, content to leave professionals and managers to pick up the pieces. Whichever side of this exhausting, divisive, and passionate argument you favoured, we are in a different place now. It is no longer a question of […]

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Martin McShane: Stock take

I am not sure whether this time last year anyone could have predicted what massive changes would have been wrought across commissioning in England – and not a single piece of legislation has been passed. We are moving from a dispersed form of governance, PCTs each with their own boards, with executive and non-executive directors, to a […]

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