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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
Category Archives: Health
GPs get pathfinder status
The application by Wandsworth’s GPs for Pathfinder status was approved on Wednesday. Essentially it makes Wandsworth one of the country’s early adopters in the move towards GP commissioning; with the GPs (working as a single Wandsworth consortia) starting to shadow the Primary Care Trust from April in preparation for taking on full commissioning responsibilities from
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Tagged commissioning, GP, parthfinder
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Health and Wellbeing Board
Last night was the first meeting of the ‘wider’ Health and Wellbeing Board for Wandsworth. And a bit of a milestone in the progress towards implementation of the government’s health service reforms. In fact yesterday was something of a health reform day for me, with a meeting in the afternoon between south-west London NHS sector,
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Public health in Wandsworth
Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health, came to Wandsworth to launch the public health white paper yesterday. I’ve been very remiss in not posting much about health on here, despite the fact that it’s probably the most exciting area of local government at the moment and presents a huge opportunity for local councils
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Technology isn’t always the answer
Years ago, as a new councillor, one of the old salts told me that he now couldn’t go anywhere in the country without seeing a housing estate and looking for indications of how many of the houses or flats had been bought or how the estate was managed. I’ve found myself doing the same looking
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Tagged big society, nudge, robot, St Thomas', technology, TV
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Adult Care Services and Health OSC
I’m really not that sure how interesting it is for me to write about meetings. They certainly aren’t interesting enough for people to turn up and listen. Having said all that, there were a few interesting items on the agenda of last night’s Adult Care Services and Health OSC. I was only there for part
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Wandsworth’s best GPs
View Wandsworth GP ‘approval’ ratings in a larger map Given that the police aren’t too keen on the whole mapping thing I’m turning my attention to the NHS this week. This map is a (not very good) attempt at showing which GP practices have the highest ‘approval’ in the borough. I did it largely to
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Tagged GP, mapping, patients, satisfaction
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