If you want to do any background reading, here are some useful places to go:
Government Bodies
- Department of Health
- Department of Health - Junior Doctors Guide to the NHS
- Communities and Local Government
- NHS Choices
- NHS Networks
- NHS Evidence
- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
- Office of the Strategic Health Authorities
- House of Commons Health Committee
- House of Commons Public Accounts Committee
- Deaneries
- Medical Schools
Regulators/Professional Bodies/Unions
- Care Quality Commission
- Monitor (Foundation Trust regulator)
- National Insitute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- National Patient Safety Agency
- Health Protection Agency
- National Audit Office - Health
- Audit Commission - Health
- Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
- General Medical Council
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- NHS Confederation
- NHS Employers
- The Royal Society of Medicine
- The Royal College of Physicians
- The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- The Royal College of General Practitioners
- The Royal College of Nursing
- British Medical Association
- NHS Alliance
- Managers in Partnership
- Unison
Academic Institutions/Think-tanks
- London School of Economics - Health and Social Care
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Health Services Research Unit
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- University of Birmingham - Health Services Management Centre
- Cambridge University - Judge Business School
- Imperial College Healthcare
- University of Manchester - National Primary Care Research Centre
- University of York - Dept of Health Sciences
- Havard Business School
- World Health Organisation
- OECD- Health
- European Observatory on Health Systems (LSE)
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society
- The King's Fund
- The Nuffield Trust
- Health Foundation - QQUIP
- IPPR
- Reform
- Policy Exchange
- Demos
Medical Journals/Periodicals
- The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- British Medical Journal
- Student BMJ
- The Lancet
- The Lancet Student
- The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- New England Journal of Medicine
- British Journal of General Practice
- Health Service Journal
- Pulse
- Healthcare Republic
- healthpolicyinsight.com
- BBC News - Health
- Financial Times - Health
- The Times - Health
- The Guardian - Health
- The Daily Telegraph - Health
- The Independent - Health
- Wall Street Journal - Health
- New York Times - Health