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We can start improving children and young people’s healthcare | Mike McKean

17 / 10 / 2019 2pm

Children and young people’s services are often left out of initiatives, development and funding. With the Long Term Plan and the advent of ICSs, this is set to improve. In the first of two blogs, Mike McKean, paediatrician and clinical director of the Great North Children’s Hospital explains more.

CQC's State of Care report finds standards improving but warns of pressures | Sabina Hafesji

15 / 10 / 2019 1.23pm

The State of health care and adult social care in England report is CQC’s comprehensive annual overview of the quality of health and social care in England. It identifies the trends and factors required to enable and sustain high quality care and provides examples of good and outstanding care for others to learn from. Sabina Hafesji, senior policy advisor at the NHS Confederation, summarises its findings.

What if... MSK was higher up the health agenda? | Sue Brown

13 / 10 / 2019 9.04pm

October 12-19 is Bone and Joint Week. Here, Sue Brown, chief executive of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance, gives insight into how an MSK health condition can develop, how it could have been better managed and the knock-on effect of the condition on the health service. MSK needs to be moved up the political and healthcare agenda.