Henry Featherstone

All Together Now: Competitive integration in the NHS

by Henry Featherstone | Nov 1, 2012

Read Publication Unnecessary admissions to NHS hospitals have grown over the last 10 years, fuelled by pay incentives for doctors that fail to encourage GPs and consultants to work together in the best interests of the patient. Hospital admissions have increased by...

Incentivising Wellness: Improving the treatment of long-term conditions

by Henry Featherstone | Nov 25, 2010

Read Publication Incentivising Wellness shows how the NHS can save tens of billions of pounds while also taking better care of one of the UK’s fastest-growing diseases – diabetes. The report calls for new business models to be introduced to the NHS in a bid to harness...

Careless: Funding long-term care for the elderly

by Henry Featherstone | Jul 27, 2010

Read Publication The Commission on the funding of care and support long-term announced by the Coalition Government should not consider paying for care solely through general taxation. The report says that free personal care funded out of general taxation, as was...

Cough Up: Balancing tobacco income and costs in society

by Henry Featherstone | Mar 18, 2010

Read Publication By Henry Featherstone and Robert Nash. Smoking is the single, largest preventable cause of serious ill health and kills tens of thousands of people in England every year. It is a popular myth that smoking is a net contributor to the economy – our...

Future Foundations: Towards a new culture in the NHS

by Henry Featherstone | Mar 18, 2010

Read Publication By Henry Featherstone, Bill Moyes and Paul Corrigan. Writing for think tank Policy Exchange, the architects of the Government’s Foundation Trust programme call for a wholesale change in the culture of the NHS. Currently hampered by tight central...