NHS action on social and economic development in England: Vague national policy expectations.

Under recent reforms to the National Health Service (NHS) in England, NHS organizations have been given new objectives to contribute to social and economic development. Health systems in other high-income countries are pursuing related approaches. This paper analyses national policy documents to understand the framing of the NHS's new policy priorities on social and economic development.

Cross-sector collaboration to reduce health inequalities: a qualitative study of local collaboration between health care, social services, and other sectors under health system reforms in England.

Background: Policymakers across countries promote cross-sector collaboration as a route to improving health and health equity. In England, major health system reforms in 2022 established 42 integrated care systems (ICSs)-area-based partnerships between health care, social care, public health, and other sectors-to plan and coordinate local services. ICSs cover the whole of England and have been given explicit policy objectives to reduce health inequalities, alongside other national priorities.

Darzi's NHS review shows depth of problems for Labour.

Findings may buy time but highlight government policy tensions

Conservative Party's legacy on the NHS.

Political failure has left the health system in crisis and caused avoidable harm

Understanding access to general practice through the lens of candidacy: a critical review of the literature.

Background: Dominant conceptualisations of access to health care are limited, framed in terms of speed and supply. The Candidacy Framework offers a more comprehensive approach, identifying diverse influences on how access is accomplished.

Aim: To characterise how the Candidacy Framework can explain access to general practice - an increasingly fraught area of public debate and policy.

The performance of general practice in the English National Health Service (NHS): an analysis using Starfield's framework for primary care.

General practice in the English National Health Service (NHS) is in crisis. In response, politicians are proposing fundamental reform to the way general practice is organized. But ideas for reform are contested, and there are conflicting interpretations of the problems to be addressed.

Solving poverty or tackling healthcare inequalities? Qualitative study exploring local interpretations of national policy on health inequalities under new NHS reforms in England.

Objectives: Major reforms to the organisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in England established 42 integrated care systems (ICSs) to plan and coordinate local services. The changes are based on the idea that cross-sector collaboration is needed to improve health and reduce health inequalities-and similar policy changes are happening elsewhere in the UK and internationally. We explored local interpretations of national policy objectives on reducing health inequalities among senior leaders working in three ICSs.

Labour's health "mission".

Ambitious goals that won’t be delivered without investment

Rhetoric about NHS reform is misplaced.

The NHS is in crisis, and talk of fundamental reform is little more than a distraction

A cure for everything and nothing? Local partnerships for improving health in England.

Collaboration between local agencies is no replacement for national policy and investment, argue , , and

United Kingdom: Health System Review.

This analysis provides a review of developments in financing, governance, organisation and delivery, health reforms and performance of the health systems in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has enjoyed a national health service with access based on clinical need, and not ability to pay for over 70 years. This has provided several important benefits including protection against the financial consequences of ill-health, redistribution of wealth from rich to poor, and relatively low administrative costs.

Financing Approaches to Social Prescribing Programs in England and the United States.

Policy Points The number of social prescribing practices, which aim to link patients with nonmedical services and supports to address patients' social needs, is increasing in both England and the United States. Traditional health care financing mechanisms were not designed to support social prescribing practices, and flexible payment approaches may not support their widespread adoption. Policymakers in both countries are shifting toward developing explicit financing streams for social prescribing programs.

England's new health and care bill.

The health secretary gains sweeping new powers, with unclear consequences for patients