All Health Service Journal articles in 12 November 2009
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SupplementsHSJ50 2009 in pictures
The list was revealed at a reception at the Foundling Museum in Central London on 11 November 2009.
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HSJ KnowledgeControl continuing care costs
Providing continuing care to people who already have been compensated to pay for private care is money PCTs may be pouring down the drain, warns Jill Mason
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Information50 Ben Goldacre
An honourable 50th position for the NHS’s own myth buster - The Guardian columnist and author of Bad Science Dr Ben Goldacre.
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Information49 Sue Slipman
Foundation trusts have one of their biggest advocates and defenders in Foundation Trust Network director Sue Slipman.
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Information48 Karen Jennings
Karen Jennings combines being Unison’s head of health - representing more than 400,000 members - and campaigning as Labour parliamentary candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green in north London.
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Information47 Ben Page
People listen to what Ipsos MORI has to say: it tells politicians and the health service what real people think and feel about it, and offers influential interpretations.
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Information46 Dame Barbara Hakin
Dame Barbara Hakin is one of the few GPs right at the top of the health service as chief executive of NHS East Midlands and leading the NHS Employers negotiating team on the GMS contract.
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Information45 Stephen Thornton
The Health Foundation chief executive has seen his organisation’s star rise as its concern with quality improvement and patient safety increasingly chimes with government priorities.
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Information44 Robert Chote
Director of the influential Institute of Fiscal Studies, Robert Chote has been forthright in warning about the black hole awaiting public spending.
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Information43 Nicolaus Henke
As McKinsey’s head of global health systems Nicolaus Henke’s critique of the UK’s system stands on knowledge of what has succeeded and failed around the world.
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Information42 Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol is the first national director for health and work. She conducted a major review of the health of Britain’s working age population, which emphasised the role of the NHS in maintaining working people’s health and getting the unwell back to work.
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Information41 Sian Thomas
Sian Thomas was appointed director of NHS Employers earlier this year, after 12 months of sharing the role with Alastair Henderson, and has launched the organisation into developing extra services for its members.
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Information40 Lord Carter of Coles
Lord Carter of Coles is chair of the cooperation and competition panel which has been operating for less than a year but already looks to have a major influence on the development of NHS funded healthcare.
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Information39 Helen Bevan
Helen Bevan is a leading advocate of a more structured approach to NHS management, offering insights into what it can adapt from other sectors.
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Information38 Stuart Bell
As chief executive of the high performing South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust, Stuart Bell is respected across the mental health field and has been a supporter of the benefits of FT status.
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Information37 David Fillingham
David Fillingham led the Modernisation Agency for three years - but then moved into the chief executive’s role at Royal Bolton Hospital Foundation Trust and put theory into practice, introducing into hospital management the “Lean” quality tool developed by Toyota and popular in other industries.
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Information36 Richard Barker
Director general of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries, Richard Barker has been at the heart of many wrangles over drug costs and availability.
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Information35 Hamish Meldrum
British Medical Association chair Dr Hamish Meldrum has struggled with the perennial problem of how to position the BMA as both the guardian of the patient’s interest and the opposer of many government reforms.
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Information34 Elisabeth Buggins
A former NHS manager who is now the highly regarded chair of NHS West Midlands and leads on board development for the NHS national leadership council, Elisabeth Buggins recently led a review of organ transplants to foreign private patients and is a former chair of the government’s organ donation task ...
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Information33 Mark Goldman
Dr Mark Goldman embodies the engaged clinician: he is chief executive of Heart of England Foundation Trust and leads on clinical leadership for the NHS leadership council.