This week, a new series starts in The BMJ - the aim is to rethink how hospitals, clinics, community services and public health work - with the aim of stopping the perverse blocks and incentives that prevent doctors, and other healthcare professionals, from providing the care that patients want and need.

Talking to Navjoyt Ladher, are Albert Mulley - professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute, and Jane Druce, an evaluations manger, and Donal Collins, a GP - both of whom work in an NHS Vanguard area, where new ways of delivering care are being tested.

Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1401