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Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in today’s NHS?
21-Jan-2013
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Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?
21-Jan-2013
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NHS holds the line on 18 weeks
17-Jan-2013
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Size vs quality? Examining hospital mergers
17-Jan-2013
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Leadership lessons from the Thin White Duke
14-Jan-2013
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One-year-waiters: real patients or data errors?
14-Jan-2013
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Regulating managers is the wrong response to Mid Staffs
14-Jan-2013
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Lessons from Boston on integrated care
9-Jan-2013
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Commissioning board makes its move
9-Jan-2013
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Staff should be protected from 'never events'
8-Jan-2013
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More management, less leadership please
7-Jan-2013
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Military-style leadership doesn't suit the public sector
7-Jan-2013
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The prospects for health and social care in 2013
4-Jan-2013
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A new look for NHS leaders in 2013
2-Jan-2013
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Why the public sector shouldn't use head hunters
28-Dec-2012
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A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
17-Dec-2012
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Health leaders on Twitter have a public health responsibility
17-Dec-2012
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Your 18 week waits: October 2012 data
14-Dec-2012
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Orthopaedics scrapes inside waiting target for first time
13-Dec-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: Gilding the NHS settlement lily
12-Dec-2012
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Acquisitions are not just a business process
10-Dec-2012
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The drama of being a whistleblower
6-Dec-2012
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Concern that black staff are more likely to be disciplined
4-Dec-2012
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Scotland's waiting times slide again
28-Nov-2012
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Developing integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
21-Nov-2012
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How treatment centres have driven competition
21-Nov-2012
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Your 18 week waits: September 2012 data
21-Nov-2012
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What's so hard about saying sorry?
21-Nov-2012
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Transforming real waiting lists with better scheduling
16-Nov-2012
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New record best for one-year-waiters (now let's go for zero)
16-Nov-2012
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Protecting the NHS brand or devaluing it?
15-Nov-2012
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The mandate provides a historic opportunity for better mental healthcare
13-Nov-2012
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Trust chief executives have one of toughest jobs there is
13-Nov-2012
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Stairlifts on cell block H: who cares for older prisoners?
12-Nov-2012
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Has payment by results had its day?
8 November 2012
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Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission
7-Nov-2012
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Healthcare in the US election: fact, fiction and Big Bird
31-Oct-2012
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Winterbourne View was shocking but hardly surprising
31-Oct-2012
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Michael White: never say never
31-Oct-2012
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A perverse take on incentives
24-Oct-2012
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At last, a consumer-led NHS?
24-Oct-2012
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Michael White: temperatures rise in Edinburgh
23-Oct-2012
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First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
19-Oct-2012
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Winter pressures, week by week
19-Oct-2012
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The blip is over: waiting times break new records
19-Oct-2012
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Harassment has not gone away
19-Oct-2012
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The shocking truth about anonymous comments
12-Oct-2012
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Culture is as intangible as the air we breathe
8-Oct-2012
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How Hunt stole the PM's thunder
8-Oct-2012
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NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
4-Oct-2012
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Equal opportunities under the new CCGs
2-Oct-2012
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Stampede for the exit
26-Sep-2012
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Doing nothing is not an option
24-Sep-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: conspiracy and coincidence
20 September 2012
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Did she jump or was she pushed?
19-Sep-2012
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How to be successful at interview
11-Sep-2012
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The new minister's agenda
6-Sep-2012
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'We are becoming averse to risk'
6 September 2012
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What that extra year for QIPP means
6 September 2012
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Un-learning leadership in the NHS
4-Sep-2012
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No U in team
28-Aug-2012
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Improving the health of the poorest, fastest: why clusters of lifestyle behaviours matter
23-Aug-2012
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Lessons from the world of payments
23 August 2012
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The new breed must listen to survive
23 August 2012
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Michael White: Mitt's gamble
21-Aug-2012
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Too important to get wrong
16 August 2012
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Parity of esteem
14-Aug-2012
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Do extroverts perform better at interview or do they just think they do?
13-Aug-2012
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50 Shades of management
9-Aug-2012
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Candy coated cartels, fear and loathing - is there a better way forward?
9-Aug-2012
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Michael White: Lansley's pragmatism
9-Aug-2012
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Peter Carter: CCGs need nurses’ talents
9 August 2012
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Michael White: Oh, Danny Boyle...
2-Aug-2012
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Noel Plumridge: the business of mental health
2-Aug-2012
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Genuine 'co-production' now needs 'coming together'
26-Jul-2012
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Michael Rawlins: playing fair on treatments
26 July 2012
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Michael White: the ever-shifting 'responsibility' of drink
26-Jul-2012
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Why top-up fees are not the answer
23-Jul-2012
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Is trust really the be all and end all of leading?
20-Jul-2012
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18-week waits still improving
20-Jul-2012
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Michael White: much ado about almost nothing - 0.02pc
19-Jul-2012
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David Stout: what did PCTs ever do for us?
19-Jul-2012
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Noel Plumridge: when risk assessment goes awry
19-Jul-2012
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'Poor patient experience is a clinical time bomb'
19-Jul-2012
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Will new waiting time records be broken?
17-Jul-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: for Monitor, big acutes are beautiful
12-Jul-2012
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Nicholas Timmins: the aftermath of reform
12-Jul-2012
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Michael White: looking to the Lords for inspiration
12-Jul-2012
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Making sense of organisation branding in the NHS
12-Jul-2012
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Media Watch: drumming up acrimony over social care
12-Jul-2012
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Nigel Crisp: the most precious commodity of all
11-Jul-2012
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A mandate for bad waiting list management
9-Jul-2012
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Accountable care organisations: revolution or business as usual?
9-Jul-2012
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Wider lessons from Imperial's long waits
9-Jul-2012
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Michael White: learn from past errors with PFI
5-Jul-2012
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Michael White: bombarded BMA hits out at 'betrayal'
28-Jun-2012
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The NHS must address its blind spot on older people's services
28-Jun-2012
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Media Watch: England's doctors score own goal
28-Jun-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: the new plan for NHS deficits is academic
26-Jun-2012
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Local picture on 18 week waits: April 2012
22-Jun-2012
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Securing equal mental health investment is still a big task
21-Jun-2012
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Focus on waiting list still delivering success
21-Jun-2012
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Michael White: will brave Commons debate help bring mental health into mainstream?
21-Jun-2012
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Noel Plumridge: the error of underspending
21-Jun-2012
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Media Watch: strike coverage is just what the DH ordered
21-Jun-2012
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Why trusts should get behind NHS Hack Days and back 'geeks who love the NHS'
18-Jun-2012
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Trusts need to face up to the reality of mergers
14-Jun-2012
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'Reform could lead a transition to a non-hierarchical NHS'
14-Jun-2012
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Michael White: Behan will be under scrutiny in CQC hot seat
14-Jun-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: CCG budgets face existential crisis
14-Jun-2012
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Media Watch: getting cross about cuts to social care
14-Jun-2012
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Who cares what they think?
12-Jun-2012
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Lessons for the care industry from the car industry
11-Jun-2012
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Are we wasting money on care that patients don’t want?
7-Jun-2012
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Hiring and firing at will
4-Jun-2012
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Michael White: Burns resumes battle with NHS procurement
31-May-2012
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Noel Plumridge: levelling the provider playing field
31-May-2012
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David Kerr: converting data into currency
31-May-2012
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Primary care premises may prove too costly for independents
31-May-2012
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Change management, and changing definitions
29-May-2012
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Patient preferences matter: another call for doctors to change
29-May-2012
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Engagement matters - here's why
28-May-2012
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Playing to the whistle?
28-May-2012
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'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
24-May-2012
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Michael White: will information strategy deliver on its promise?
24-May-2012
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Media Watch: rare agreement on good policy move
24 May 2012
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Sally Gainsbury: immigrants don't hurt the NHS; dentists do
23-May-2012
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Integrated care and why the NHS needs more deviant leaders
21-May-2012
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The fall of the Roman Empire
18-May-2012
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Michael White: gap between Lansley and nurses threatens to grow
17-May-2012
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Commissioning board must safeguard the future of secure care services
14-May-2012
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Holding a mirror up to the managers
14-May-2012
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Will economic problems finally fix London health care?
14-May-2012
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Michael White: driving down the cost of drug deals
10-May-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: new bailouts required for new deficits
9-May-2012
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Clinician involvement is key - but keep an eye on the cost
8-May-2012
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Michael White: power is there to be taken by the bold
3-May-2012
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Noel Plumridge: the reinvestment riddle
3-May-2012
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Unemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
1-May-2012
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Devaluing social work with adults will cause huge problems
30-Apr-2012
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The long view on long waits
30-Apr-2012
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Inspections can only hope to inspire managers into stopping abuse
27-Apr-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: acute hospitals are living in Monitor's 'downside'
26-Apr-2012
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Michael White: the battle over waiting times is blurred by both sides
26-Apr-2012
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Your 18-week waits
20-Apr-2012
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Michael White: the many faces of Conservative ministers
19-Apr-2012
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Media Watch: the overnight hot topic
19-Apr-2012
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Noel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
18-Apr-2012
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How will doctors see fit to spend their budgets?
16-Apr-2012
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Michael White: abortion row gives a glimpse of politically disfiguring culture wars
12-Apr-2012
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Don Redding: give the public remote control
12 April 2012
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Paul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
12 April 2012
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Sally Gainsbury: quiet panic at the DH
12-Apr-2012
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Tim Wilson: thirty good men and true
12 April 2012
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Michael White: regional pay policy needs greater attention
29-Mar-2012
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Noel Plumridge: the hidden cost of foundation status
29-Mar-2012
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Media Watch: alcohol strategy fails to go down a treat
29-Mar-2012
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Patients must embrace telehealth too
29 March 2012
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Michael White: is handy Andy Burnham playing the long game?
22-Mar-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: saving £20bn is only half the story
21-Mar-2012
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Michael White: bill-bashing Lib Dems may take their own hits in the polls
15-Mar-2012
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Noel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
15-Mar-2012
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Trust mergers don't guarantee more for less
14-Mar-2012
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'I've seen how innovation makes a difference from top to bottom'
12-Mar-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: an end to cross-subsidy?
8-Mar-2012
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Media Watch: Cameron dishing out the Gove love
8-Mar-2012
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Michael White: despite everything, the health secretary is going nowhere
8-Mar-2012
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Motivation is needed to see clinical commissioning succeed
6-Mar-2012
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Integrating mental health and substance misuse services
2-Mar-2012
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Michael White: these are dispiriting and dark days in NHS politics
1-Mar-2012
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Noel Plumridge: forget hospitals, competition will thrive in non-acute services
1-Mar-2012
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Charles Alessi: human, dodo or cockroach?
1-Mar-2012
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Norman Warner: will a new Beveridge emerge?
1-Mar-2012
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Stephen Dorrell: re-engineering the care model
1-Mar-2012
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Mark Britnell: open for business
1-Mar-2012
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Matthew Taylor: mind the gap
1-Mar-2012
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Alan Milburn: preparing for the perfect storm
1 March 2012
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Frank Field: how changing life chances will change the distribution of income
1 March 2012
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Julie Moore: a lot more for a lot less
1 March 2012
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Media Watch: the chips are down after Crisp attack
1-Mar-2012
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Mike Farrar: the politics of decentralisation
1 March 2012
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Peter Carter: tomorrow's NHS
1 March 2012
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Simon Stevens: living to be 500, death by asteroid, and the inevitability of NHS reform
1 March 2012
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Staffing issues warn of 'catastrophic' potential for South Central trust
1 March 2012
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The appeal of diversity - in theory
29-Feb-2012
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'We must look at today's challenges in terms of the NHS legacy'
27-Feb-2012
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In NHS board games, no one is safe
24-Feb-2012
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Ali Parsa on great mistakes
23-Feb-2012
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John Appleby on risking failure
23-Feb-2012
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'Failure is necessary to breed success'
23-Feb-2012
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Michael White: DH tax revelations dash hopes for private and public harmony
23-Feb-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: peculiar commissioning spend estimates could threaten surpluses
23-Feb-2012
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Toynbee exposes the waiting list cheats
22-Feb-2012
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More needs to be done to improve NHS health check scheme
21-Feb-2012
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December's waiting times data - the local picture
17-Feb-2012
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Is there an I in success? Busting the team building myth
17-Feb-2012
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Latest on 18 week waits: better in December
16-Feb-2012
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Michael White: the coalition may sustain heavy damage by seeing the bill through
16-Feb-2012
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Noel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
16-Feb-2012
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Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
15-Feb-2012
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Imperial's waiting times holiday
14-Feb-2012
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Does the cost of private healthcare exceed the benefit?
10-Feb-2012
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'There is inherent value in high quality outcomes data'
9-Feb-2012
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
9-Feb-2012
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Michael White: there's no pleasing the peers
9-Feb-2012
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Sally Gainsbury: PFI bailouts are a sign of things to come
9-Feb-2012
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Can transparency be the most powerful driver of healthcare improvement?
8-Feb-2012
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PMQs and the truth about waiting times
8-Feb-2012
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Are managers too busy to manage?
6-Feb-2012
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Thinking differently about quality and cost
3-Feb-2012
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Michael White: humility is in short supply despite Lansley's 'climbdown'
2-Feb-2012
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Noel Plumridge: tariff reductions aren't the one-size-fits-all solution
2-Feb-2012
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Media Watch: it's beginning to look a lot like winter
2 February 2012
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Opposition likely for Yorkshire reconfiguration plans
2 February 2012
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Sally Gainsbury: just how much will public health have?
26-Jan-2012
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Michael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
26-Jan-2012
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Are leaders a product of their environment, or is it the other way round?
25-Jan-2012
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Commissioning by any other name: will 'clinical' become 'world class'?
24-Jan-2012
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The local picture on waiting times
23-Jan-2012
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The rise of the patient leader
20-Jan-2012
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Latest RTT waiting times data - November 2011
19-Jan-2012
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Question marks over Imperial chief executive advertisment
19-Jan-2012
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Michael White: trusts need to be wary of the lure of lawsuits
19-Jan-2012
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Noel Plumridge: bonus capital fund threatens to embarrass the system
19 January 2012
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Making sense of conflicting waiting times targets
17-Jan-2012
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The issue of heterosexual discrimination
17-Jan-2012
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Profit and loss in the 'new' public sector
17-Jan-2012
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Michael White: a deal must be cut to restore certainty to the NHS
12-Jan-2012
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Don't presume that racism is no longer a problem
10-Jan-2012
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Abuse and negelect: what 2011 will be remembered for
9-Jan-2012
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What will 2012 have in store for mental health?
6-Jan-2012
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Michael White: the mess in the cosmetic Wild West
5-Jan-2012
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Noel Plumridge: is local pay a fair deal everywhere?
5 January 2012
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Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
3-Jan-2012
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'Make change a mantra, and lead the patient centered revolution'
30-Dec-2011
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A day in the life: at the Mid Staffs inquiry
29-Dec-2011
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'It's time to remove the barriers to telehealth'
28-Dec-2011
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Disarray on waiting times targets
24-Dec-2011
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New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps
19-Dec-2011
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'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
16-Dec-2011
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Latest waiting time stats: one year waits halved in October
15-Dec-2011
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Michael White: can Lansley's localism really escape postcode lottery-itis?
15-Dec-2011
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Can the NHS Pay Review Body still be regarded as independent?
15-Dec-2011
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Media Watch: 'postcode lottery' bingo follows Atlas of Variation launch
15 December 2011
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Sally Gainsbury: economic peace and goodwill, or Armageddon?
15 December 2011
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Learning from a model medical leader
13-Dec-2011
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Michael White: the eternal tension of national vs regional policy
8-Dec-2011
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New target, new perversity
8-Dec-2011
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Pointing the finger
8-Dec-2011
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HSJ100: 'The NHS can never recover if Whitehall is deciding the cure'
8-Dec-2011
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Noel Plumridge: this holiday's must-have NHS reads
8 December 2011
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HSJ100: judging panel and process
7-Dec-2011
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HSJ100: shadow commissioning board is already pulling the strings
7-Dec-2011
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Results business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011
6-Dec-2011
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Is community care, as we know it, dead?
6-Dec-2011
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When is whistleblowing not whistleblowing?
5-Dec-2011
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The strikes don't mean staff don't like doing their job
2-Dec-2011
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Michael White: freedom to choose doesn't stop bad decisions
1-Dec-2011
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Could a public cycle network cut down inner city obesity?
30-Nov-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: shifting the goalposts on NHS spending
29-Nov-2011
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How hard is the new 18 week target?
28-Nov-2011
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Does the NHS really believe information technology can improve healthcare?
25-Nov-2011
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Michael White: ministers' fears of a CQC tick box regime
24-Nov-2011
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Noel Plumridge: increased demand is the answer, not the question
24 November 2011
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The pressing case for linking physical and mental health
22-Nov-2011
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When customer care alone is not enough
21-Nov-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: just how much does the NHS cost?
17-Nov-2011
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Michael White: private sector concerns going round in circles
17 November 2011
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Devloping new structures for improved service delivery
15-Nov-2011
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Michael White: let's back the public sector plan B
14-Nov-2011
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Macho macho management
10-Nov-2011
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Noel Plumridge: PbR is becoming increasingly irrelevant
10 November 2011
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Is the GP contract a barrier to integrated care?
7-Nov-2011
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Michael White: don't bank on blaming Brussels for the NHS's ills
3-Nov-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: pain for providers - and the poor
3 November 2011
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Dancing with the devil? Exorcism in the NHS
2-Nov-2011
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A shocking indictment of corporate management culture
1-Nov-2011
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Why can’t health and social care services get it together?
31-Oct-2011
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Leading the charge for change? An HSJ Summit review
28-Oct-2011
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Michael White: ice cool Professor Grant may have what it takes to succeed
27-Oct-2011
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Media Watch: there's no news like old news
27 October 2011
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Noel Plumridge: new faces for financial frugality
27 October 2011
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When the long-waiters are forgotten
26-Oct-2011
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'The success of integrated care depends upon our commitment to innovation'
24-Oct-2011
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In the drive for equality, culture eats strategy for breakfast
21-Oct-2011
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Michael White: relief for supporters as Health Bill scrapes through Lords
20-Oct-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: councils face a rude awakening
20 October 2011
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It's time to talk about values
13-Oct-2011
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Michael White: Burnham's return signals the start of a grudge match
13-Oct-2011
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Noel Plumridge: savings are not surpluses
13 October 2011
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'We all want integrated care - who will stand up and be accountable for it?'
13 October 2011
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Compete or collaborate? The policy dysphoria facing NHS organisations
10-Oct-2011
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Is the public sector running out of ideas?
6-Oct-2011
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Lansley and Neil in the waiting times trap
6-Oct-2011
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Michael White: the search for Tory health debate beyond the fringe
6-Oct-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: in theory, the reality could be even worse
6 October 2011
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Michael White: lacklustre Labour missing opportunity in Liverpool
27-Sep-2011
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Say no to 'yes' men and women
22-Sep-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: as if by magic... How the government conjured up a saving
22-Sep-2011
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Michael White: don't get mad, get on with it
22-Sep-2011
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Making clinicians effective leaders: guidance from success in the US
21-Sep-2011
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Latest RTT waiting time figures for England - July 2011
15-Sep-2011
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Noel Plumridge: will the government help write trusts' shopping lists?
15-Sep-2011
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Michael White: in reality, even a centralised model devolves power
15 September 2011
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Go reconfigure?
13-Sep-2011
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Leaders lack confidence in the changes they've been asked to make
10-Sep-2011
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How long does it take to do 100 minutes' work?
8-Sep-2011
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Michael White: what's wrong with giving overseas providers a crack at managing NHS hospitals?
8-Sep-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: the real problems affecting readmissions
8 September 2011
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Apple of the eye? Why leaders should never be seen as indispensible
5-Sep-2011
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Creating diversion will improve mental health screening throughout the judicial system
2-Sep-2011
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Michael White: through choice comes different outcomes - and that way we learn
1-Sep-2011
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Noel Plumridge: inflation is set to inflame the pension problem
1-Sep-2011
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How good journalism can improve NHS waiting times
25-Aug-2011
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If bullying doesn't bother staff, why are so many absent?
18-Aug-2011
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Trying to force equality in leadership is an unbalanced approach
11-Aug-2011
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Survival of the fittest: will social enterprises thrive in the new world?
8-Aug-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: the £2bn secret subsidy
4-Aug-2011
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Michael White: the strange landscape of US healthcare
4 August 2011
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Michael White: see you later, innovator
27-Jul-2011
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Changing behaviour needs more than a 'nudge'
25-Jul-2011
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Pressure? Andrew 'Chopper' Lansley isn't feeling it
21-Jul-2011
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The five laws for delivering integrated care
21-Jul-2011
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Is your organisation accepting the unacceptable? Challenging 'ethical fading'
21-Jul-2011
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Michael White: Lansley - the boy on the burning deck?
21 July 2011
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Your flight has been cancelled (by your employer)
18-Jul-2011
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Noel Plumridge: the finance director's job interview
14 July 2011
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Michael White: the well-intended Dilnot report may fall on deaf ears
7 July 2011
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The great care divide
4-Jul-2011
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Why you should keep the 'smiling assassins' in HR on your side
30-Jun-2011
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Michael White: Cameron takes Labour to task in Wales
30-Jun-2011
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Noel Plumridge: time for primary care to shoulder its share of the savings burden
30 June 2011
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Crime doesn't pay... but it might get you free healthcare
23-Jun-2011
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Michael White: reform concessions do little to soften Tory image
16-Jun-2011
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Michael White: Southern Cross is a victim of financial engineering
9-Jun-2011
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Michael White: how to survive in the blame game
2 June 2011
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Sally Gainsbury: flogging off the freehold
26 May 2011
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Britnell: the NHS performs amongst the best but it can be better
17-May-2011
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Passing judgement on Lansley's vision
5 May 2011
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This ‘natural break’ is an opportunity to develop a genuinely patient-centred NHS
14-Apr-2011
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Michael White: Lansley must tune in to rescue reforms
14 April 2011
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Noel Plumridge: RIP, payment by results
7 April 2011
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GPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
6 January 2011
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Paddy Henry dies aged 69
14-Dec-2010
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Circle’s success at Hinchingbrooke is more likely to be cultural than commercial
1-Dec-2010
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The People Manager
25-Aug-2010
