Blog

Welcome to the One Health Alliance blog. This includes views and opinions of our members as well as guest contributors.

  • Ability, agility, and ambition – what the NHS should demand from IT suppliers
    It’s the customer that counts. With healthcare IT that means ensuring that the NHS, and private providers, can achieve their goals and deliver for patients. Unfortunately, as the regular tales of deep …
  • Prognosis for the Health Bill? Worryingly terminal.
    Watching the progress and witnessing the government’s first defeat on its highly contentious plans to reform the health service, just a few hours after the Prime Minister mounted a passionate defence …
  • A lack of information in the information report
    This week the NHS Future Forum published its latest report spurring on headlines from the tabloids such as ‘NHS staff lacking compassion and ability to do their job’ and ‘doctors and nurses told to sl …
  • Bringing today’s technology to tomorrow’s NHS
    Last week, as Big Ben chimed out midnight and the fireworks erupted around the London Eye spectacularly, my mind went back to the chimes of Big Ben welcoming the Millennium. We all waited with bated b …
  • Is the UK leading global innovation?
    This week I had the pleasure to attend the eHealth 2011 conference in Malaga. Driving in the fog to Gatwick, I was feeling slightly boyish that soon I would be walking along the sunny pavements of Mal …
  • NHS: It’s time for hard measurement and evaluation
    Return on investment (ROI) is a very hot topic within healthcare given the current efficiency saving challenge and the broader financial climate in the public sector. Nearly every NHS business case mu …
  • NHS IT: A big boys’ game?
    Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of very familiar talk about the NHS IT market “opening up”. However, this time round and following renewed announcements by the Department of Health about …
  • Private, NHS or foreign providers, does it matter?
    According to the Institute for Innovation and Improvement ‘Innovation is about doing things differently or doing different things to achieve large gains in performance.’ Often, ‘innovation’ makes us t …
  • Steve Jobs – Brilliant, but was he a revolutionary?
    There is no getting away from the fact that what dominated the news headlines this week was the announcement of the death of Steve Jobs, chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Apple. For anyone unawar …
  • Procurement: spate v blight
    With the advent of the demise of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will we see a procurement spate or blight? Eight days ago we heard for the third time from the coalition government that NPfIT is …