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Associate Parliamentary Health Group
Essays collected by the Associate
Parliamentary Health Group
in association with The King’s Fund
FOR PARLIAMENT
POLICY PRIORITIES HEALTH
‘ HEALTH IS AN INTRINSICALLY INTERESTING POLICY AREA AND AS PARLIAMENTARIANS, OUR ENGAGEMENT WITH IT IS ESSENTIAL’
Baroness Cumberlege, APHG Chair Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, APHG Parliamentary Officer
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Foreword 6Commissioning Professor Chris Ham - Chief Executive, The King’s Fund 8Competition within the NHS Dr Jennifer Dixon - Director, The Nuffield Trust 10NHS finances and productivity Professor John Appleby – Chief Economist, The King’s Fund 12The NHS Workforce Dr Peter Carter – Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing 14Patient Experience Jeremy Taylor – Chief Executive, National Voices 16Public Health Professor Steve Field – Former Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners 18Social Care Richard Jones – President, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services 20Quality Dame Jo Williams – Chair, Care Quality Commission 22Reflections Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – APHG Parliamentary Officer 24Reflections Mark Simmonds MP – APHG Parliamentary Officer 26About the APHG 28About The King’s Fund 30
Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
CONTENTS
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Baroness Cumberlege APHG Chair
Lord Hunt of Kings HeathAPHG Parliamentary Officer
Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
‘As we embark upon a period of substantial reform for the health service, and in the context of a challenging financial climate, parliamentary participation in the forward health debate will be paramount’
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Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
COMMISSIONING Professor Chris Ham Chief Executive, The King’s Fund
Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
‘The challenge for the Coalition Government will be to ensure that history does not repeat itself and that the leadership and management are put in place counter the power of providers in order to deliver benefits for patients and the public’
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COMPETITION WITHIN THE NHSDr. Jennifer DixonDirector, The Nuffield Trust
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Professor John Appleby Chief Economist, The King’s Fund
NHS FINANCES AND PRODUCTIVITY
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THE NHS WORKFORCEDr Peter Carter Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing
Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
‘The workforce needs to be healthy, empowered and innovative. In the difficult times, both now and ahead, these are the only ways that quality patient care, and by extension good nursing practice, will flourish’
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Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
PATIENT EXPERIENCEJeremy Taylor Chief Executive, National Voices
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REFLECTIONSMark Simmonds MP APHG Parliamentary Officer
Health Policy Priorities for ParliamentA collection of essays presented by the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and The King’s Fund
‘ ...the Government needs to refocus NHS resources to frontline patient care and put clinicians at the heart of the NHS whilst shifting the emphasis of the NHS and concentrating on making the patient central to everything that happens within the service.’
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