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Nicholson: 'more' community focused care required

21-Jan-2013
Hospital trusts lack 'top drawer' leaders

16-Jan-2013
Nicholson seeks "legitimacy" amidst a storm of protest

15-Jan-2013
A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Everyone Counts

15-Jan-2013
Nicholson: leading hospitals to be reshaped by commissioning board

14-Jan-2013
Sir David embraces partnership but 'hasn't given up on grip'

14-Jan-2013
Nicholson argues he should survive to implement Mid Staffs recommendations

10-Jan-2013
Michael White: escalation in healthcare's culture wars

9-Jan-2013
EXCLUSIVE: MPs to probe policy of health budget underspending

3-Jan-2013
Boards could be made to declare staff level is safe

11-Dec-2012
Protecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?

15-Nov-2012
Mandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'

15 November 2012
Michael White: Sir David doesn't blink

14-Nov-2012
Mandate approach will avoid perverse incentives

13-Nov-2012
NHS chiefs ordered to explain £3bn underspend

13-Nov-2012
Exclusive: Hospital chiefs warned to check celebrities' access to patients

13-Nov-2012
Nicholson: More funding will be linked to quality

5-Nov-2012
Competition: waiting for that green light

18 October 2012
Nicholson fears 'carpet bombing' privatisation

16-Oct-2012
Flory: trusts still face April 2014 target for FT status

4 October 2012
Second Nicholson challenge required says top Lib Dem

24-Sep-2012
Too many 'risk pools' could force organisations into failure, Nicholson warns

18-Sep-2012
How to be successful at interview

11-Sep-2012
Media Watch: Sir David and his board

6 September 2012
What that extra year for QIPP means

6 September 2012
New tax rules 'could spark backlash'

5-Sep-2012
Un-learning leadership in the NHS

4-Sep-2012
DH tightens up rules on PCT redundancies

30-Aug-2012
Nicholson clamps down on interim managers' pay

23-Aug-2012
The new NHS's greatest risk

23-Aug-2012
'Strong claim for constructive dismissal' following Nicholson letter

21-Aug-2012
Analysis: Nicholson triggers shift in control to new system leaders

21-Aug-2012
Commissioning board given default lead role on quality

20-Aug-2012
Commissioning board and Trust Development Authority directors handed responsibility for 2012-13 delivery

13-Aug-2012
Nicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs

9-Aug-2012
Doctors should care to lead

9 August 2012
Trust chiefs fear regulators would not spot scandal

25-Jul-2012
Commissioning board: our mandate is too detailed

20-Jul-2012
Noel Plumridge: when risk assessment goes awry

19-Jul-2012
Rising GP referrals contradict Lansley claims

18-Jul-2012
Nicholson shuns localism to keep grip on NHS cash

27-Jun-2012
Government action on South London Healthcare a 'signal of intent'

27-Jun-2012
Sally Gainsbury: the new plan for NHS deficits is academic

26-Jun-2012
Number of managers in NHS down by 5.7 per cent

22-Jun-2012
New surveillance groups not 'command and control'

21-Jun-2012
2011-12 saw biggest number of trust deficits for half-decade

21-Jun-2012
Nicholson: Politicians should be honest about service change needed

21-Jun-2012
Accelerating innovation across the NHS: an HSJ supplement

1-Jun-2012
Tougher penalties on horizon for slow ambulance handovers

31 May 2012
Improved NHS procurement could save £1.2bn - Burns

30-May-2012
Nicholson calls for 'leap forward' in management style

30-May-2012
Nicholson: 'very real' chance Francis recommendations will conflict with policy

29-May-2012
Providers urged to collaborate to speed clinical trial approvals

23-May-2012
Restrictions imposed again on senior managers' bonuses

4-May-2012
How localism really can be achieved in healthcare provision

19 April 2012
King's Health Partners chief calls for academic health groups' protection

18-Apr-2012
Pay scheme will force leaders to 'justify salaries'

13-Apr-2012
NHS savings plans 'short on detail' as trusts plan swathe of cuts

30-Mar-2012
Nicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December

29-Mar-2012
Exclusive: CCG authorisation requirements and timetable revealed

26-Mar-2012
Analysed: acute reconfiguration in North West London

20-Mar-2012
'The NHS needs to be better at adopting innovation'

15-Mar-2012
Exclusive: many experienced commissioners predicted to leave

14-Mar-2012
Finance director appointed to commissioning board

27-Feb-2012
Mid Staffs inquiry to get May/June report

24-Feb-2012
CQC chief Cynthia Bower resigns

23-Feb-2012
Taking up the Dorrell challenge? It's the money, stupid

23-Feb-2012
Commissioning board a 'folly', says Diabetes UK chief

21-Feb-2012
Five NHS commissioning board directors confirmed

3-Feb-2012
Commissioning board restricted by Health Bill 'turbulence'

3-Feb-2012
Flory to lead NHS Trust Development Authority

2-Feb-2012
GMC moves on 'gagging clauses' in pay-off deals

26-Jan-2012
Health committee: NHS could miss savings target from 'salami slicing'

24-Jan-2012
DH considers year-of-care tariff for patients with long term conditions

12-Jan-2012
Most senior leaders failing to create 'strong work climates'

12-Jan-2012
Future Forum: all commissioners should consider NHS and social care shared budgets

10-Jan-2012
Twelve months of turbulence: 2011 in review

15-Dec-2011
Commissioning board chair praises NHS’s 'spectacular' record during last decade

9-Dec-2011
Commissioning board names medical and finance chiefs

9-Dec-2011
Sir David Nicholson back at the top of HSJ100

8-Dec-2011
047 - David Nicholson's Advisers

7-Dec-2011
HSJ100: Top 20 mandarins

7-Dec-2011
Penalties for providers and commissioners failing to innovate

7-Dec-2011
Nicholson predicts between 14 and 18 academic health science networks

6-Dec-2011
David Nicholson seeks NHS 'nature and culture' change to innovate

5-Dec-2011
Industry will meet start-up costs for telehealth, Nicholson says

5-Dec-2011
Nicholson: providers and commissioners will be fined for not meeting NICE guidance

5-Dec-2011
CCG performance and payment regime allowed to include 'process' measures

2-Dec-2011
Francis: Mid Staffs report will aid NHS managers

1-Dec-2011
Nicholson: electoral cycle means we have to do service changes in next 18 months

1-Dec-2011
CCG management could learn from schools - Lansley

1-Dec-2011
HSJ interview: Nicholson and Flory prepare the ground for CCGs

29-Nov-2011
CCG staffing must be 'commensurate' with delegated budgets

24-Nov-2011
CCG management allowance set at £25 per head

24-Nov-2011
Dozens of CCGs not meeting rules must find 'alternatives'

24-Nov-2011
Nicholson: 'End criticism of managers'

24-Nov-2011
CCG staff assignment to accelerate despite redundancy fears

23-Nov-2011
PCT public health spending revealed

23-Nov-2011
Protected training funds could increase, says Nicholson

16-Nov-2011
Exclusive: commissioning board to include 50 local medical directors

11-Nov-2011
'Amicable resolution' to United Lincs whistleblower saga

3-Nov-2011
Nicholson says CCGs should get choice of support provider

1-Nov-2011
Mid Staffs inquiry hears calls for regulation of managers

27-Oct-2011
MPs back 'comply or explain' procurement rule

25-Oct-2011
Derbyshire agrees ambulance commissioning plan

19-Oct-2011
NHS Commissioning Board chair announced

14-Oct-2011
Exclusive: SHA cluster chief executives appointed without competition

13-Oct-2011
Nicholson: trusts' procurement costs will have to be 'explained'

13-Oct-2011
Lansley: QIPP savings £1bn lower than expected

12-Oct-2011
Former Mid Staffs chief admits to considering suicide

4-Oct-2011
Noel Plumridge: checking up on the Nicholson challenge

29 September 2011
Nicholson says only 'small number' of PFI hospitals need extra funds

28-Sep-2011
Nicholson: State should have power to renationalise FTs

27-Sep-2011
DH stockpiles 400,000 doses of flu jab

23-Sep-2011
Exclusive: top teaching hospitals under threat from tariff system

22-Sep-2011
Providing integrated care won't be easier for CCGs, study suggests

22-Sep-2011
Drop in admission rates hailed as possible CCG success

19-Sep-2011
Commissioning board chair could work just four days a month

12-Sep-2011
Latest coverage: live updates from the Mid Staffs inquiry

6-Sep-2011
Mandarins and former ministers face the Mid Staffs inquiry

5-Sep-2011
'It's time for managers to stand up and be counted'

2-Sep-2011
'Crude' spending estimates risk CCGs' funding

25 August 2011
Commissioners ordered to redo public health accounts amid 'gaming' concerns

16-Aug-2011
SHA cluster chief executives announced

12-Aug-2011
Exclusive: draft authorisation document reveals key tests for new commissioning groups

11-Aug-2011
NHS patient records programme has 'failed' according to MPs

3-Aug-2011
Nicholson under fire over National Programme for IT

3-Aug-2011
SHA cluster chairs announced and chief executives emerging

29-Jul-2011
HSJ special report: managers' fears over the £20bn 'Nicholson Challenge'

29-Jul-2011
Equality initiative thwarted by 'continued discrimination'

28 July 2011
NHS chief warns South Essex CCGs may 'fragment'

26-Jul-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board must support CCGs, not overshadow them

21-Jul-2011
Are you confident your organisation can make the savings it needs to?

15-Jul-2011
Sir David made colonel in Territorial Army

14-Jul-2011
Sir David sets out single commissioning vision

13-Jul-2011
NHS managers to face tighter checks on behaviour

11-Jul-2011
Nicholson urges MPs to end obsession with bed numbers

8-Jul-2011
Speculation begins over Commissioning Board top jobs

6-Jul-2011
'NHS England' name plan stirs controversy

5-Jul-2011
Lansley meeting Future Forum to discuss its future

1-Jul-2011
Fine trusts and hospitals more for data breaches, says information chief

1-Jul-2011
Commissioning board draft structure revealed

30-Jun-2011
Mid Staffs inquiry costs hit £8m

30-Jun-2011
Nicholson says region's FT pipeline risks going backwards

29-Jun-2011
On valuing managers: Nigel Edwards writes exclusively in HSJ this week

29-Jun-2011
Health secretary gains powers over NHS Commissioning Board in amended bill

29-Jun-2011
Proposed commissioning groups will be 'unsustainable'

29-Jun-2011
'Dangerous' management cost cuts must be revised

23-Jun-2011
Exclusive: NHS faces 'big problem' if reform timetable slips - Nicholson

22-Jun-2011
Exclusive: NHS efficiency drive won’t close whole hospitals, says Sir David

22-Jun-2011
Nicholson: PCT clusters to survive as arms of Commissioning Board

21-Jun-2011
Nicholson to remain NHS chief executive until 2013 as reform timetable relaxes

20-Jun-2011
Exclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan

17-Jun-2011
Commissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson

16-Jun-2011
Nicholson: I feared Lansley’s competition rules

16-Jun-2011
Major power to be focused at centre

15-Jun-2011
Exclusive: dozens of trusts missed savings targets in 2010-11

9 June 2011
Commissioning board to constrain consortia powers if 'not ready'

8-Jun-2011
Alan Johnson 'put pressure on regulator to keep quiet on Mid Staffs deaths'

3-Jun-2011
Clusters to be given single operating model under DH plans

1-Jun-2011
Exclusive: SHAs may get further reprieve

31-May-2011
Liverpool Women's seeks to form national alliance to lobby for maternity care providers

24-May-2011
Foundation trusts give out £5.7m in severance pay-outs

20-May-2011
Health Select Committee calls for evidence on meeting the 'Nicholson Challenge'

12-May-2011
Clinical networks to respond to competition fears

12-May-2011
Hospital doctors set to have role in consortia authorisation

11-May-2011
Passing judgement on Lansley's vision

5 May 2011
Trusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12

20-Apr-2011
Merger overseen by Nicholson did not spot Mid Staffs failings, says Bower

18-Apr-2011
Nicholson warns on 'unrealistic' savings plans

14-Apr-2011
Reform goals hampered by political pause

14 April 2011
Assigning PCT staff to commissioning consortia will be phased

7 April 2011
Why evidence-based, patient-centred care is the key to cutting NHS costs

7 April 2011
Exclusive: national social enterprise could handle communications for GP consortia

5-Apr-2011
Exclusive: government rebrands NHS reforms

1-Apr-2011
FT severance payouts to come under scrutiny

17 March 2011
Your humble servant: the spectre of Stalin looms over year end

17 March 2011
Consortia staff numbers will be limited

10 March 2011
Government amends Health Bill

3-Mar-2011
Nicholson must 'prove he trusts' GP commissioners

3 March 2011
Trusts told to pick 'business critical' staff

2-Mar-2011
Hospitals 'must adapt to survive'

25-Feb-2011
Healey asks Lansley for clarity on price competition

24-Feb-2011
Buckinghamshire trust rejects PCT waiting times plea

24 February 2011
Michael White: 'Price competition has never been the policy... Yeah, right.'

24 February 2011
Consortia to be authorised in stages, Sir David tells HSJ

22-Feb-2011
Lansley U-turn on price competition

18-Feb-2011
Nicholson: My commissioning board won't be 'shy'

18-Feb-2011
Consortia must involve non GPs - Zollinger-Read

15-Feb-2011
DH: 20 trusts' futures in doubt

8-Feb-2011
PCT cluster discussions revealed

3-Feb-2011
Government confusion over midwife numbers boost

1-Feb-2011
Monitor interviews candidates for chair

28-Jan-2011
DH will 'co-produce' authorisation process, GPs told

28-Jan-2011
Michael White: like a civil war, the Health Bill has divided political families

27 January 2011
Nicholson appointed to NCB to 'provide leadership and continuity'

27 January 2011
Nicholson midwives claim 'an error'

26-Jan-2011
An open letter from David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS

24-Jan-2011
The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders

24-Jan-2011
Tribunal to have responsibility for settling disputes over protected services

20-Jan-2011
Commissioning board given 'draconian' powers

20-Jan-2011
Health secretary to get powers over commissioning board

19-Jan-2011
'Stalinist' controls grip expiring SHAs

19-Jan-2011
Innovation Expo to profile QIPP programme

19-Jan-2011
Nicholson: NHS commissioning board will step in if consortia falter

19-Jan-2011
‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery

19-Jan-2011
Michael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility

19-Jan-2011
Noel Plumridge: SHAs need to decide their priorities, and soon

19-Jan-2011
PCT directors warned over cluster job conditions

19-Jan-2011
Nicholson warns price competition could be 'extremely dangerous'

18-Jan-2011
'Direct management' of under-par consortia an option, says Nicholson

13-Jan-2011
'Conspiracy of silence hides true extent of poor GP performance'

13 January 2011
'Management conspiracy requires management intelligence, and I'm not talking data'

13 January 2011
Nicholson's appointment to NCB sparked by concern over reforms

21-Dec-2010
Nicholson is master of all he surveys after surprise decision

20-Dec-2010
Plans for 'at risk' NHS staff revealed

16-Dec-2010
Productivity gains elude NHS trusts

17 December 2010
HSJ exclusive: Lansley appoints first commissioning board chief

15-Dec-2010
Dorrell's committee warns about impact of 'unprecedented' efficiency target

14-Dec-2010
Management posts shed without full consultation

9 December 2010
PCTs expected to be ‘ordered’ to cluster

9 December 2010
Department of Health maps end of PCTs and SHAs

2 December 2010
Winter deaths fall despite cold weather

2 December 2010
'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'

25 November 2010
Don't lose sight of productivity during winter, warns Nicholson

24-Nov-2010
Lansley denies reforms have caused PCT 'meltdown'

23-Nov-2010
Top staff to move into community services, says Nicholson

19-Nov-2010
Commissioning board chief exec not in post until October

19-Nov-2010
004 - Sir David Nicholson

17-Nov-2010
SHAs to set senior managers' pay at aspirant CFTs

17-Nov-2010
MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail

17-Nov-2010
What Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear

17-Nov-2010
The Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies

11 November 2010
Nicholson letter suggests caution on scrapping PCTs

10-Nov-2010
DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs

10-Nov-2010
Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson

21-Oct-2010
Commissioning will cost 'less than 5 per cent'

19-Oct-2010
MPs express consortia governance fears

19-Oct-2010
Follow the leaders – or waste billions of pounds every year

14 October 2010
Regional variations in NHS productivity revealed

14 October 2010
Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved

6-Oct-2010
Public health needs a long vigil

23 September 2010
Eight PCTs to share single management

22-Sep-2010
Conflicting messages from the top hint at growing resistance

16 September 2010
King’s Fund criticises GPs on dementia diagnosis

16 September 2010
Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move

15-Sep-2010
Nicholson outlines further transition details

13-Sep-2010
White paper leads to shake up in top posts at SHAs

10-Sep-2010
Warning over scale of task of replacing PCTs

9 September 2010
Spend on consultancy

10-Aug-2010
£400m NHS funds may go to social care

5 August 2010
Union threatens judicial review over pace of NHS change

5 August 2010
Commissioners must 'balance evidence and views' on reconfiguration

29-Jul-2010
Reconfiguration moratorium lifted in three months

29-Jul-2010
Doubt over removal of DH ‘shackles’

29 July 2010
‘Heroic’ NHS managers get their due from friend and foe

22 July 2010
GP consortia management budgets could be as low as £9 per person

22 July 2010
Nicholson warns of tightening central grip over PCTs and providers

22 July 2010
Sir David praises 'heroic' PCT and SHA managers

22 July 2010
NHS staff to find out if their jobs are at risk by September

13-Jul-2010
Nicholson warns DH may 'take powers' over £1.7bn of PCT allocations this year

13-Jul-2010
David Nicholson's letter to the NHS

13-Jul-2010
Nicholson tells chief executives: don't be defensive about change

13-Jul-2010
NHS to take 'immediate steps' to split oversight of commissioning and provision

13-Jul-2010
David Nicolson slows pace of Lansley change

1 July 2010
SHAs told to step up NHS talent hunt

1 July 2010
David Nicholson doubts 2012 timescale for GP commissioning role

25-Jun-2010
BAMM ceases trading and cancels conference

17 June 2010
Michael White on NHS reorganisation

17 June 2010
Lansley orders probe into chief's sacking

18-May-2010
Congratulations - you're the new health secretary

6 May 2010
Commissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions

21-Apr-2010
NHS North West urged to be ‘proactive’ about performance improvement

1-Apr-2010
David Nicholson on NHS incentives and ideology

25 March 2010
Andrew Haldenby on hospital closures and competition

17-Mar-2010
Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives

11 March 2010
David Nicholson calls for 'more urgency' in stroke care

2-Mar-2010
Foundation independence is on a knife edge

24-Feb-2010
NHS boards are patient safety ‘cornerstone’

24-Feb-2010
SHAs plan staff cuts of up to 10pc

4 February 2010
Bill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations

28 January 2010
David Nicholson predicts tough NHS pay negotiations

22-Jan-2010
NHS East of England urged to work better with PCTs

21 January 2010
Quality board to adopt 'values' in bid to avoid further rows

20-Jan-2010
United Lincolnshire in turmoil as disciplinary action starts

14 January 2010
CQC calls in high ranking fixer for ‘chaotic’ trust registration process

13-Jan-2010
Knighted Nicholson pays tribute to NHS staff

7 January 2010
Knighthoods for top NHS leaders

31-Dec-2009
David Nicholson tells NHS: improve first, then prove it

16-Dec-2009
Tariff puts brake on acute admissions

16-Dec-2009
Job cuts could see up to 5,700 staff go from PCT and SHA management

16-Dec-2009
HSJ exclusive: NHS to take responsibility for social care

8-Dec-2009
NHS 'not helped' by confused messages on future of PCTs

8-Dec-2009
Independent provider arms 'nonsense', David Nicholson says

27-Nov-2009
01 David Nicholson

12-Nov-2009
David Nicholson: ride the wave of NHS innovation

12 November 2009
NHS managers are used to abuse but Mike O’Brien’s attack is a new low

12 November 2009
NHS boards must not misinterpret 'firm performance management'

28-Oct-2009
Andy Burnham extends preferred provider vow

22 October 2009
David Nicholson warns NHS of nightmare winter ahead

21-Oct-2009
NHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn

8 October 2009
NHS East of England faces DH assurance test

8 October 2009
SHAs commit to original Darzi review strategies

8 October 2009
How to get better health outcomes in diverse groups

24-Sep-2009
SHAs seek control of senior managers' pay, MiP claims

23-Sep-2009
Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation

17 September 2009
DH report into bullying and harassment allegations delayed

17 September 2009
Government set to issue a five year spending plan for NHS

16-Sep-2009
FTs fear biddable successor to Bill Moyes

3 September 2009
Make NHS board meetings public, foundation trusts told

26-Aug-2009
NHS chiefs told saving planet will save them money

20 August 2009
NHS management stars need a leg-up to rise to the top

20 August 2009
Community services: get off your bikes

13 August 2009
Bullying row trust appoints new non execs

12-Aug-2009
DH scraps deadline for PCT provider arm strategies

6-Aug-2009
DH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims

29-Jul-2009
Resigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'

27-Jul-2009
Managers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic

23 July 2009
Noel Plumridge: the optimism bias uplift

16 July 2009
Call for debate on redundancies as data shows where cuts will fall

9 July 2009
Clinicians and managers - shedding some light on the dark side

7-Jul-2009
Off diary: another compliment down the toilet

2 July 2009
Trusts may have to report more non-MRSA and C Diff infections

2 July 2009
Darzi says focus on long term conditions

1-Jul-2009
New national director and Britnell replacement unveiled in DH reshuffle

30-Jun-2009
David Nicholson gives leaders a license to experiment

25 June 2009
NHS Top Leaders list gets under way

25 June 2009
One year down Darzi’s road the way ahead looks a lot tougher

25 June 2009
NHS flu czar warns PCTs over pandemic plans

18 June 2009
David Nicholson on NHS challenges

12-Jun-2009
Plan for cuts, David Nicholson warns NHS Confed conference

11-Jun-2009
NHS Confederation conference 2009

11-Jun-2009
Andy Burnham: don't sideline NHS quality

11 June 2009
Management consultant costs to be laid bare

11 June 2009
NHS survival may depend on a ‘series of big changes’

11 June 2009
A decade of the national clinical directors - aka the czars

4 June 2009
Czars to focus on cost cutting as well as quality

4 June 2009
David Nicholson warns NHS: 'all bets are off'

4-Jun-2009
David Nicholson warns SHAs not to be defensive over visits

4 June 2009
NHS cuts will be chance for staff to be new radicals

4 June 2009
NHS productivity unit role revealed

4 June 2009
Interim NHS managers help solve long term crises

28 May 2009
Michael White on the patient-consumer parallel

28 May 2009
NHS may face over £6bn annual cuts

28 May 2009
David Nicholson sticks by NHS quality cash claims

26-May-2009
David Nicholson puts innovation on NHS to-do list

21 May 2009
Chief executives appointed at two SHAs

7-May-2009
Mark Goldman on clinical leadership's tipping point

5-May-2009
Crunch time: coming to terms with NHS funding cuts

30 April 2009
David Nicholson defends 'unashamedly elitist' Top 250 scheme

30 April 2009
Interview: David Nicholson talks leadership

30 April 2009
NHS news blog: Interview - David Nicholson talks leadership

30-Apr-2009
Budget 2009: funding squeeze looms in 2011, says David Nicholson

22-Apr-2009
David Nicholson talks to HSJ about foundation trusts on their fifth anniversary

2 April 2009
Gordon Brown, Alan Johnson and David Nicholson sign 'historic' NHS constitution

21-Jan-2009
David Nicholson warns against NHS cash hoarding

4-Dec-2008
David Nicholson

13-Nov-2008
Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor

26-Jun-2008
David Nicholson tells Confed chiefs to nurture leadership

19-Jun-2008
Nicholson tells Patient Safety Congress: create a safety culture

23-May-2008
David Nicholson says standards must not slip

22-May-2008
David Nicholson speaks at Patient Safety Congress 2008

22-May-2008
Nicholson sets out challenges for year ahead

16-May-2008
Your Humble Servant on Nicholson's blog

27-Mar-2008
Nicholson announces new cleaning strategy

28-Feb-2008
Nicholson's operating framework gets mixed review

14-Dec-2007
Patients could commission own healthcare, says Nicholson

22-Nov-2007
£1.8bn NHS underspend 'manageable', says Nicholson

22-Nov-2007
One year on, the message from Nicholson is that he's listening

13-Sep-2007
Nicholson slams medics over attacks

28-Jun-2007
Nicholson: let local managers drive health service reforms

28-Jun-2007
NHS Confederation rolling news: Nicholson slams negative unions

21-Jun-2007
Think for yourselves, Nicholson tells managers

21-Jun-2007
NHS chief executive Nicholson creates new team to lead 'third stage of reform'

10-May-2007
David Nicholson on service transformation

9-May-2007
Nicholson: NHS financial system now fit for the future

29-Mar-2007
Clinicians should be groomed for top jobs, says Nicholson

1-Jan-2007
Future of London chief up in the air after Nicholson appointment

1-Jan-2007
The SHA interviews, David Nicholson: 'I can be direct. I drive things hard'

1-Jan-2007
Nicholson says £250m surplus should be delivered by 2008

12-Dec-2006
Nicholson pledges to devolve 90pc of resources to local NHS

7-Dec-2006
Nicholson urges MPs to show courage on reconfiguration

9-Nov-2006
Nicholson to give evidence to spending enquiry

3-Nov-2006
Nicholson calls for 'headroom'

19-Oct-2006
Nicholson: mixed reviews but the right idea

19-Oct-2006
Cash-strapped capital gets team of temporary heads as Nicholson moves to top job

17-Aug-2006
David Nicholson: the service insider who puts taxpayers first

3-Aug-2006

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