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Blog post 09/12/2025

Death (and taxes?)

Hospices are fundamental to end of life care, and the broader shift ‘from hospital to community’.

Aging tool: most deprived (51.9 years in good health) vs least deprived (70.7 years in good health)
Long read 17/04/2025

Things can only get better (?)

Introducing a new online tool to help local health and care service planners think differently about healthy ageing.    

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Long read 05/03/2025

From ‘right drift’ to ‘left shift’?

Our Head of Policy, Fraser Battye, looks at the challenges facing the intention to shift care ‘from hospital to community’. He suggests that we have missed a critical part of the explanation for why this ‘left shift’ hasn’t taken place following previous initiatives.

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Blog post 10/10/2024

Ara Darzi, Wes Streeting and English health policy. Part 2: cutting the knot

Following on from part one, Fraser continues exploring the Gordian Knot of English health policy.

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Blog post 04/10/2024

Ara Darzi, Wes Streeting and English health policy. Part 1: the Gordian Knot

Health policy is not at a crossroads, it is in a bind. Strands so entangled, so complex they resemble a Gordian knot. Can this knot be untied?

Long read 29/09/2019

Lessons, Evaluation and Learning from the Dudley MCP

Learning from Dudley MCP

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