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Yesterday, the House of Commons Health Committee’s snappily-titled ‘Public Expenditure: Thirteenth Report of Session 2010–12‘ was published. This is the latest parliamentary inquiry into health and social care spending in England, with a special focus on the £20bn Nicholson Challenge. The report’s central message is that “salami-slicing” and short term cuts will not be sufficient [...]

Here at e3 intelligence we expected the period between Christmas and New Year to be a slow news week and a good opportunity for us to take a brief Twitter break. Most people will be relaxing, the journalists will be on their holidays and the policy pronouncements will dry up we thought. Well, guess what? [...]

The NHS in England is rarely out of the headlines and three big issues seem to dominate the coverage: safety, reform and efficiency. We’ll probably visit the first two in later posts, but for now we’re going to concentrate on the last issue – the question of health system efficiency. In 2009, the management consulting [...]

Over the last decade, several healthcare systems around the world have invested in information technology (IT) in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Although the intention has been right, many healthcare IT projects haven’t delivered fully on their promise to make patient care more joined-up and safe. A prime example is the National Programme for [...]