Health Service Journal
Paul Corrigan
Paul Corrigan is a management consultant and executive coach, paul@pauldcorrigan.com. Website: www.pauldcorrigan.com
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'Health services need a new type of investment to help achieve savings'
2-Sep-2011
The constrains that the current funding model puts on the NHS means value for money improvements are almost impossible to translate into long term savings. Paul Corrigan looks at how a new model of investment can change this cycle. -
The government's failure to justify reform has left the public short of options
9 June 2011
Huge strides have been taken to offer NHS patients a choice of different providers, but there is now a real chance of a backwards step under the coalition government, says management consultant Paul Corrigan. -
What happens if the health reforms work?
24-Jan-2011
Anyone looking at the future of the government’s reforms is always interested in the question: “What happens if this doesn’t really work the way the government wants it to?” -
Big Society: little guys vs big guns
28 October 2010
The third sector is uniting in the hope of building enough clout to win the big society contracts -
The right way to form GP consortia
7 October 2010
GP commissioning consortia will not be created by guidance notes from the Department of Health. Nor will they be formed by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities suggesting the necessary population size for efficient commissioning. -
'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'
12 August 2010
In seeking to diminish the role of the state, the government has established a policy that attacks NHS bosses as the cause of most problems and abolishes state run primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. Instead, it proposes GP led consortia to do commissioning. -
Paul Corrigan on how the third sector will save the NHS
8 July 2010
The NHS, like all other healthcare systems in developed countries, will soon run out of money. -
Paul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money
27 May 2010
One of the impacts of the election result could be that the deep fascination the leadership of the NHS has with the nuances of their secretary of state’s policy will in the near future provide very diminishing returns. -
Paul Corrigan and Bill Moyes on foundation trust autonomy
15 April 2010
Five key changes must be fought for if autonomous foundation trusts are to flourish -
Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives
11 March 2010
Research from the London School of Economics published in December gave insight into how competition within the NHS is benefiting patients. -
Paul Corrigan on Tory policies vs Tory politics
28 January 2010
Given what the opinion polls are saying, developing a close understanding of Conservative Party policy for the NHS looks like a worthwhile investment. -
Paul Corrigan: health and social care marriage
17 December 2009
When health secretary Andy Burnham announced his new policy last week, HSJ suggested he was interested in a “marriage” between social care and health commissioning. In Parliament, Mr Burnham added: “We should also be less precious about spending health resources on equipment and telecare to help people live in their own homes. -
Paul Corrigan: commissioning competencies
19 November 2009
Most, if not all, primary care trusts will improve their commissioning competencies over the next few months. This will be an important step towards gearing up commissioning to play its full role. -
Paul Corrigan on clinical leadership
5 November 2009
Over the last couple of years we have all become used to the importance of clinical leadership for the development of the NHS. In fact in the management of a health service it’s really quite difficult to conceive of an argument against it. -
Paul Corrigan: why Andy Burnham is wrong to rip up the NHS competition rulebook
29 October 2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham’s rewriting of NHS competition rules undermines local decision making, conflicts with Labour’s manifesto and could breach competition law, argues Paul Corrigan. He claims commissioners should ignore it -
Paul Corrigan: world class commissioning
15 October 2009
The Department of Health launched the second year of the world class commissioning process in mid September. -
Paul Corrigan on NHS reform
24 September 2009
NHS reform requires the creation of significant parts of the NHS system that are independent of the Department of Health and the NHS mainstream hierarchy of the past. -
Paul Corrigan on NHS values and reality
3 September 2009
NHS values concerning equal access for all, free at the point of need, are the core of its culture. -
Paul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
23 July 2009
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E. -
Paul Corrigan: the future of foundation trusts
2 July 2009
The biggest clash between NHS culture and strategy continues to be found around foundation trusts. -
Paul Corrigan on holding out for a heroic NHS leader
11 June 2009
NHS culture isn’t just self protective. Like most cultures its internal obsession and expectations can harm the people inside it as much as it rejects those outside. -
Paul Corrigan: Darwin's theory on the NHS
21 May 2009
The greatest truth in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is that to survive in a rapidly changing environment, species must adapt. And for a species to be adaptable it needs to love diversity. -
Paul Corrigan on NHS cultures
30 April 2009
My problem with a single powerful culture comes from growing up in the 1950s. English culture was pleased with itself. Its rejection of difference threatened that the cost of being different would be high. You would be on your own. -
DIY doctors: patients can boost NHS's value
30 April 2009
The Budget means the NHS must get better value for money. As the need for efficiency grows, the key is to get patients with chronic illnesses to manage more of their own care -
Paul Corrigan: foundations are the future
2 April 2009
Opponents of foundations say that their success and financial strength is the result of unequal advantages - but that should not stop them helping weaker trusts -
Paul Corrigan and Ben Page on PCT accountability
27-May-2008
If public services really were owned by the public, accountability would always be at the core of their business. But since this is not the case, all public services must continuously review how they are held accountable. -
Change of view: improving primary care
10-Mar-2008
GPs in Essex were stimulated by the arrival of an alternative provider contract in their patch, say Hilary Ayerst and Paul Corrigan -
Improvement culture: four tools for driving change
17-Jan-2008
Making things better is less about the nitty gritty than values, leadership, will and skill -
The scrutiny mutiny
28-Jun-2001
SCRUNTINY: What sort of scrutiny can health managers expect from local councils? Paul Corrigan describes a pilot study in which councillors were more interested in being constructive than in settling old scores -
Here's looking at you, kid
8-Feb-2001
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
