Paul Parsons

NHS in England – Health Secretary’s new powers to intervene in NHS service change

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The publication of new guidance signals the biggest change in 20 years for NHS service reconfiguration projects in England. It’s fair to say that the legal and regulatory processes around health service change in England are well-established. Over the last two decades, those processes have evolved as policy, legislation and case law has evolved. We […]

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The Institute View: NHS Planning, assuring and delivering change for patients update

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Preparations for establishing 42 new Integrated Care Boards for the NHS in England are well underway. And since the Health and Care Act 2022 received Royal Assent at the end of April, there has been a steadily growing torrent of instructions and guidance to help systems be ready in time for the big changeover at

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Consulting on proposals to merge NHS commissioning organisations.

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Most of  our NHS commissioning clients in England are in the process of merging with neighbouring CCGs. The debate about the extent of public consultation that’s required to support the process is always interesting and a line in one of the articles shared in The Consultation Institute’s weekly newsletter jumped out at me this week.

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NHS service change: Patient involvement duties and planning for winter

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While most of us were basking in the Mediterranean temperatures of this summer’s heatwave, stalwart NHS planners across the country had the extremes of a different season firmly in mind: Winter. The challenges winter surges in our hospitals are extensively and continuously documented in newsprint and online from the first signs of frost to and

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All Change? The new English NHS service change guidance – Paul Parsons gives a Consultation Institute thumbs-up

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It’s often said that change is the only constant. Planning the care and treatment services a changing population needs is a constant challenge. Much has changed for NHS organisations in England over the last two years. STPs, the Five Year Forward View, a General Election that left us with a minority government, ever-tightening budgets, the

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Thoughts on IRP assessment – Maternity services at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire

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Last Thursday, IRP – the independent body that advises the Secretary of State on contested health service changes in England – published its latest advice letter. As always IRP’s assessment letter is full of useful learning. The assessment is unusual in that the advice effectively unmakes a commissioning decision made by a CCG. The assessment

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NHS service closures – does temporary means temporary?

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NHS service closures – does temporary means temporary? There isn’t much that fires a local debate on health services than a service provider using emergency measures to withdraw a service. Debate is rarely more heated when the closure affects cherished services like A&E or wards at local community hospitals. Chatter around hospital trusts using these

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