Health & Social Care

This week’s interviewee says the coach of NHS reform is heading broadly in the right direction, but wishes the driver would take more care

The health select committee chair – and former health secretary – Stephen Dorrell has been instrumental in delaying the coalition’s NHS reforms. Speaking to Joshua Chambers, he sets out his own plans for healthcare.

An NHS worker wonders why her hospital has a complex IT system but also uses paper records

Una O’Brien has taken the helm at the Department of Health as the NHS undergoes the most fundamental reforms in its history. She tells Suzannah Brecknell that persistence and partnership working will make those reforms work.

This week we meet a hospital doctor, who discusses changes to the medical career ladder

This week’s interviewee works for a charity providing social care for people leaving psychiatric hospitals

This week’s interviewee is a practice manager, responsible for the business and operational management of a major GP partnership

This week’s interviewee is a GP with more than 20 years’ experience as a partner in an urban practice

This week, a former mental health nurse explains why she left the profession just seven months after qualifying.