In their latest In The Loop podcast Niall and Roy lock horns with Dr Charlotte Refsum Director of Health Policy at the Tony Blair Institute. In a frank discussion Chalotte a former GP reveals how the former Prime Minister is still closely involved in policy development and she lays out the stark choices facing the NHS if it is to survive in the face of the enormous challenges it currently faces. Charlotte is a former GP who has specialised in health policy. She worke...
In the Loop – the BIG Questions Niall Dickson CBE and Roy Lilley with their latest guest Rob Webster CBE For this next edition of In The Loop podcast Niall and Roy come together with Rob Webster one of the most prominent NHS managers and a huge advocate of integration. Rob heads up the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership an integrated care system. And like every other system in the country he is grappling with a huge financial challenge, a big reorganis...
In their latest In The Loop podcast Niall and Roy have a revealing exchange with NHS England Chief Executive Sir Jim Mackey. In a wide ranging discussion Jim admits just how challenging it will be to meet the government’s ambitions for the NHS. If they deliver, he thinks books will be written about it and that it could be the greatest public sector turnaround of all time. “We are trying to do a lot in one go, we are trying to do major change on pretty much every front, ver...
In their latest venture In the Loop, Niall and Roy turn to mental health and conduct the first interview with Claire Murdoch, NHS England’s outgoing mental health director since she dramatically resigned earlier this month after nearly ten years on the job. In the podcast, Claire says she quit because she felt she no longer had political support and reveals her dismay at the failure of the new government to maintain the share of NHS spend on mental health. In a strong defence of ...
The latest podcast from Niall and Roy sees a somewhat different take on the current state of the NHS from Dame Jennifer Dixon, the longstanding and respected Chief Executive of the Health Foundation. Jennifer, who once practised in paediatrics before moving into public health, accuses the government of being disrespectful and menacing in its approach as it seeks to reform the service and argues that the system needs to use its principal asset which is human capital. She also questions w...