Health Service Journal
Chris Ham
Chris Ham is chief executive of the King’s Fund.
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Medical leadership is vital for quality patient care
30-Apr-2013
We need more doctors in leadership roles, says Chris Ham -
Podcast: Engaging doctors in leadership post Francis
30-Apr-2013
The King’s Fund’s Chris Ham talks to hsj.co.uk -
Fixing the broken system
6 September 2012
Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered -
'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
24-May-2012
Professor Chris Ham on leadership for engagment. -
'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
5-Jan-2012
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon. -
'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
25-Nov-2011
The US integrated healthcare system Kaiser Permanente is an example of ‘innovative disruption’ in all its joined-up glory. The King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham highlights some of the benefits a similar system could give the NHS. -
'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
22-Sep-2011
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham. -
'It makes a welcome change to hear praise for NHS managers'
10 February 2011
Sir David Nicholson’s letter to colleagues after the spending review recognised that great public service leadership “more than anything else” will be central to improving quality and productivity. -
GPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
6 January 2011
Giving GPs freedom to innovate while protecting patients will be a difficult balance -
Integrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers
19-Oct-2010
Concluding their look at integrated healthcare services, Judith Smith and Chris Ham set out seven proposals for making it happen in light of the Equity and Excellence white paper -
Removing policy barriers to integrated healthcare
13-Oct-2010
Closer integration of care may be taking on an ever-higher profile, but it is often thwarted by government policy, write Chris Ham and Judith Smith -
Answering the NHS's £14bn productivity question
22 July 2010
Government efforts have reduced the NHS productivity challenge by £6bn, but also increased its instability -
Chris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
25 March 2010
Labour’s tenure has seen massive progress in areas including access to services and cardiac and cancer care. But the greatest changes must now follow fast - things can only get different -
How to encourage innovation in healthcare
10-Nov-2009
Creativity is now compulsory for SHAs but how to go about it is open to suggestion, say Chris Ham and colleagues -
Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
17 September 2009
Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets -
Is world class commissioning the answer?
29-May-2008
Two healthcare management experts lock horns over whether the drive to raise the standard of commissioning really can transform the quality of care -
Integrated care - lessons from America
1-May-2008
The US healthcare industry is often ranked below the UK system in international comparisons. But the UK health service still has much to learn from America about integration and partnership working -
Home truths from New Zealand's healthcare system
11-Jan-2008
The UK and New Zealand are similar enough for them to learn from each other's very different health service reforms, writes Chris Ham -
Staying power: beacon sites offer some answers
1-Jan-2007
Why could US provider Kaiser provide better care at the same cost as the NHS? Why were there so many bed days in the UK? After four years of questions, writes Professor Chris Ham, beacon sites are providing answers -
SPEAK OUT
22-Sep-2005
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SPEAK OUT
17-Mar-2005
Published: 17/03/2005, Volume II5, No. 5947 Page 21 -
Premium bond
13-Jan-2005
Published: 13/01/2005, Volume II5, No. 5938 Page 18 -
A question of potential
22-Apr-2004
Published: 22/04/2002, Volume II4, No. 5902 Page 21 -
WHO's sorry now?
15-Apr-2004
Published: 15/04/2004, Volume II4, No. 5801 Page 16 -
Sticking points
18-Jul-2002
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Tips from over there for over here
9-Mar-2000
The corporate practice of medicine Competition and innovation in healthcare By James C Robinson University of California Press 261 pages £11. 95 -
Getting into the swing
25-Feb-1999
It's time the NHS had a national curriculum for management development - but not a staff college, argues Chris Ham -
Making cents
4-Feb-1999
The healthcare marketplace By Warren Greenberg Springer, New York 170 pages £30 -
Quasi for you
12-Dec-1998
A revolution in social policy: quasi-market reforms in the 1990s Edited by Will Bartlett, Jenny Roberts and Julian Le Grand The Policy Press 341 pages £16.95 -
Rewriting the ration book
28-May-1998
The case of Jaymee Bowen, child B, attracted media interest in 1995 because it epitomised the challenge of health services rationing. In reality, the case was a good deal more complex, raising issues not only about the priority to be attached to expensive medical treatments, but also about whether doctors should intervene when the risks of doing harm outweigh the prospects of doing good.
