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BBC
The BBC news website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ and health news is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health/. Hugh Pym is the BBC’s Health Editor (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/hughpym ) and Fergus Walsh is the BBC’s Medical correspondent, and he also has his own section at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/ferguswalsh/. Audio podcasts (health programmes on Radio 4 especially) are at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts (search for ' health' and 'business'). For videos, go to the BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and search for 'health', 'healthcare', 'leaders', 'leadership', 'management' ‘NHS’ and 'business' (note that iPlayer does not work outside of the UK).
British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/news. Headlines and first sentence can be viewed by everyone, but you may need to take out a subscription to read articles in full and access all of its resources.
Channel 4 News
Channel 4 News is at http://www.channel4.com/news/. Politics is at http://www.channel4.com/news/politics and Health is at http://www.channel4.com/news/health.
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/index.html. Plenty of health stories, sometimes critical of the NHS.
Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/home/uk and http://www.ft.com/management (there are now restrictions on access to most material – but you may still be able to get access a specified number of items every month for free if you register). The work and careers podcasts appear to be freely available though and there is a good range of these - https://www.ft.com/work-careers-podcast
GPonline
For a GP perspective, try http://www.gponline.com/. The news section is at http://www.gponline.com/channel/news/.
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/health is the health section of the main paper.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network is the Guardian Healthcare Professionals network in the Guardian Professional services (“insight, reports and data for NHS innovators”), and the network also offers email updates
http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk is the Guardian Public Leaders network (‘insight and best practice for all pubic leaders’).
Department of Health & Social Care, and NHS England
Main Home page and latest news: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health
- Latest policies are at https://www.gov.uk/government/policies?keywords=&organisations%5B%5D=department-of-health-and-social-care
- Latest publications are at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications and click on’ Department of Health & Social Care’ in the Department box.
- NHS England: latest news at http://www.england.nhs.uk/news/ and publications are at http://www.england.nhs.uk/publications/
- NHS England publishes a number of regular email bulletins which you can sign up for at http://www.england.nhs.uk/publications/bulletins/.
The Health Service Journal
Excellent for the latest health service news and analysis. Headlines and the occasional article can be viewed by everyone, but you will need to take out a subscription to read most articles and access all of its resources.
The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/.
The Health section is at https://www.independent.co.uk/search/site/health and the NHS section is at https://www.independent.co.uk/search/site/NHS
National Health Executive
‘National Health Executive’ is the independent management magazine for the whole health sector' but I think is sponsored by suppliers - http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Home
National Voices
'People shaping health and social care', National Voices is a coalition of health and social care charities in England - http://www.nationalvoices.org.uk/.
NHS Choices
NHS Choices: Behind the Headlines: ‘Finding it difficult to separate fact from fiction in your daily newspaper? With new claims for cures and causes of disease published each day, it’s sometimes hard to know what to believe. Behind the Headlines provides an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of the 10 biggest health stories each week’ - http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx and https://www.nhs.uk/news/ .
The NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation is the membership body for all organisations that commission and provide NHS services. "We are the only body to bring together and speak on behalf of the whole of the NHS." It has a number of resources available from its website at http://www.nhsconfed.org/ (this features latest news). There are many resources (publications, briefings, reports, discussion papers, etc.) on this link: http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources), and you can filter by topic (for example, leadership).
NHS Employers
'As an organisation, our intention is to be the authoritative voice of workforce leaders, experts in HR, and negotiate fairly to get the best deal for patients.' Its website is http://www.nhsemployers.org/Pages/home.aspx. It produces a weekly NHS Workforce Bulletin - http://www.nhsemployers.org/about-us/our-communications/nhs-workforce-bulletin and a fortnightly NHS Managers' Bulletin - http://www.nhsemployers.org/about-us/our-communications/nhs-managers-bulletin
nhsManagers.net
http://www.nhsmanagers.net/ which now directs you through to https://ihm.org.uk/roy-lilley-nhsmanagers/
Links to the latest health news (from the BBC) are conveniently shown on this website as are links to some other media. You can subscribe to receive great regular incisive analysis in an excellent newsletter by email from Roy Lilley (an experienced NHS commentator) and each edition has some very useful further links to current health management news and analysis.
PoliticsHome
This is a very useful website which draws together everything in politics in an unbiased way and is bang up-to-date (‘all today’s politics in one place’). The news front page is at https://www.politicshome.com/, and the section on Health and Care is at https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care.
Politics.co.uk
Another useful politics website is http://www.politics.co.uk/. Health news is at http://www.politics.co.uk/news/health.
Private Eye
It's difficult to resist a satirical look at things through Private Eye (Ministers' essential reading) - and selections are available at http://www.private-eye.co.uk /. The health section is Phil Hammond's 'Medicine Balls' (usually a part of this is in the columnists' section - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/columnists).
And more political gossip is on a website called Guido Fawkes - http://order-order.com/.
Pulse
Interesting to get the GP perspective on things - http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gp-news.
The Telegraph
The Health News section is https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/.
The Times
The home page is https://www.thetimes.co.uk/, but alas you have to pay to read much more than the headlines.
The links in this section have been tested and should still work, but this is a fast-changing world. If you find that any of the links do not work, or if you discover any new ones, or have any suggestions for additional resources, please email john.hunt@gmx.co.uk.
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