Staff at Stockport CCG have published a series of brief videos explaining their roles, which provide a useful introduction to the new system of paying for health services. The videos include the Chief Finance Officer Dan Jones (below), the Chief … Continue reading →
The European Health Journalism website has published transcripts of the NUJ masterclass this month where I spoke about investigating health. Direct links are copied below: Presentation slides on the new NHS structures Transcript of speech by John Lister, senior lecturer … Continue reading →
Carol Miers wrote up her notes on the speech by health expert Richard Vize at Help Me Investigate Health’s #reportinghealth event – we’ve reproduced them below with permission: “GPs tend to be self employed business people, they hate NHS bureaucracy and hate … Continue reading →
The NUJ is hosting an event on April 11 “for a practical, informative and interactive session on reporting on our health services.” Alongside myself representing Help Me Investigate, a panel of much more interesting speakers includes: BBC health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys … Continue reading →
As part of the restructuring of the health service, the NHS Commissioning Board (CB) will have national responsibility for healthcare in secure environments. These include: 120 prisons 16 Secure Children’s Homes 4 Secure Training Centres 12 Immigration Removal Centres Police Custody … Continue reading →
Journalism.co.uk have pulled together a list of tips from me on working with health data. It’s the third part in a series which has so far included: How the BMJ approaches investigative reporting How open data can be used to … Continue reading →
My name is Alex Plough and for the past few months I’ve been working as the special projects editor of Help Me Investigate Health. Regular readers will not recognise my name as I’ve been published little on the blog. But behind … Continue reading →
We’ve teamed up with the BBC College of Journalism for an event on reporting the new health system that comes into force this year. ‘Journalists and the new health system‘ is bringing together the people who will be scrutinising the new … Continue reading →
Seventeen NHS hospitals have dangerously low numbers of nurses – Telegraph – The hospitals, many of them busy district generals, were issued with warnings by the Care Quality Commission after its latest inspections, the body has disclosed. Each was … Continue reading →
Here are the health-related links that have caught our eyes between January 9th and January 17th: Regulator chastises managers forcing GP practices to prepare for CQC registration | News Article | Pulse Today – In a move to reassure GPs … Continue reading →