Leader

The medical world is looking to managers and surgeons to unlock the benefits of clinical innovation - and training is again the key.

The Healthcare Commission's investigation into mental health inpatient services paints a troubling picture.

This week HSJ, with our sister title Nursing Times and NHS Employers, launches the Healthcare 100, which aims to identify the 100 best healthcare employers in the country.

With only a few months to go before primary care trusts have to submit their strategic plans, the scale of the world class commissioning challenge is becoming clear.

Today we launch a new section on hsj.co.uk dedicated to the needs of present and aspirant clinical leaders.

With quality now firmly established as the health service's new mantra, its measurement is the next step.

Lord Darzi's next stage review has been met with a remarkable degree of support. The few critics have failed to shoot any substantial holes in it.

In the corridors of health policy there is now an unseemly rush to be the first through the door marked "outcomes".

At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.

Just days before its 60th birthday the NHS is being forced to re-evaluate its founding principle - that treatment is based on clinical need not the ability to pay.