TY - JOUR T1 - After the Party JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 355 LP - 355 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X697985 VL - 68 IS - 673 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2018/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/673/355.abstract N2 - The recently announced increases in funding for the NHS provide a breathing space for the service to consider a new future. Almost everyone agrees that the new money can’t simply be used to pay for more of the same. This issue of the BJGP, focusing, in research papers and editorials, on chronic diseases, provides some of the backdrop to matters that urgently require attention. Four of these subjects of recent publications are: an attack on waste and on the persistence of ineffective therapies and interventions, the continuing search for new service designs that provide integrated care more cost-effectively, the fullest possible incorporation of information technology into infrastructure and clinical services, and, perhaps most important of all, a new contract between the … ER -