Health Service Journal
Paul Stephenson
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Bridge building
3-Apr-2003
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'You can't hate them if you know them'
27-Mar-2003
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Ambulance adviser: 'CHI report is shallow'
20-Mar-2003
Published: 20/03/2003, Volume II3, No. 5847 Page 9 -
Capital transfer
6-Mar-2003
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'More management needed' for GP deal
27-Feb-2003
Published: 27/02/2003, Volume II3, No. 5844 Page 9 -
Primary ignition
27-Feb-2003
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Back to the drawing board
13-Feb-2003
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'Only' 62 targets now
6-Feb-2003
Published: 06/02/2003, Volume II3, No. 5841 Page 8 -
Regions slashed in DoH slim-down
6-Feb-2003
Published: 06/02/2003, Volume II3, No. 5841 Page 4 5 -
Pay rises for GPs who accept contract offer
16-Jan-2003
Published: 16/01/2003, Volume II3, No. 5838 Page 6 -
Between the lines
9-Jan-2003
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London patient choice 'pays more than private'
9-Jan-2003
Published: 09/01/2003, Volume II3, No. 5837 Page 6 7 -
Penny dreadfuls
12-Dec-2002
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Piecemeal entry for 'no' contract
5-Dec-2002
Published: 05/12/2002, Volume112 No. 5834 Page 6 -
Cleaners binned at Leeds
28-Nov-2002
Published: 28/11/2002, Volume II2, No. 5833 Page 8 -
Leave it out!
21-Nov-2002
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Fraud-buster jailed for mileage claim fiddle
7-Nov-2002
Published: 07/11/2002, Volume II2, No. 5830 Page 4 5 -
Regulator can shut foundations in trouble
17-Oct-2002
Published: 17/10/2002, Volume II2, No.5827 Page 4 5 -
You're having a laugh
17-Oct-2002
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Consultants face forced deal
19-Sep-2002
Published: 19/09/2002, Volume II2, No. 5823 Page 4 -
Prescribing blamed for £300m overspend
12-Sep-2002
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Expanded day surgery key to waiting times
22-Aug-2002
Published: 22/08/2002, Volume II2, No. 5819 Page 4 5 -
Expanded day surgery key to waiting times
22-Aug-2002
Published: 22/08/2002, Volume II2, No. 5819 Page 4 5 -
Work around the clock hailed as route to reduced wait times
20-Jun-2002
Published: 20/06/2002, Volume II2, No.5810 Page 6 7 -
MPs duke it out over York base
7-Jun-2002
Published: 07/06/2002, Volume II2, No. 5808 Page 8 -
Service cuts beckon for PCTs
16-May-2002
Published: 16/05/2002, Volume II2, No. 5805 Page 6 7 -
Bed-block pioneer urges UK to act fast
2-May-2002
Published: 02/05/2002, Volume II2, No. 5803 Page 4 -
The three degrees
25-Apr-2002
Paul Stephenson examines the details of the Wanless report, which outlines the financial options under three possible scenarios -
CHI probe calls for DoH openness
18-Apr-2002
Published: 18/04/2002, Volume II2, No. 5801 Page 6 7 -
Open and shut case
18-Apr-2002
news focus: Chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson is determined to win back doctors'support for the NHS plan. With new GP and consultant contracts on their way, Paul Stephenson asked him what the deal might be -
The big breakfast
11-Apr-2002
news focus: It is time for systems - not individuals - to change, managers told HSJ 's inaugural Breakfast with Champions .Paul Stephenson was there -
Government plans huge growth of European treatment scheme
4-Apr-2002
Published: 04/04/2002, Volume II2, No. 5799 Page 6 7 -
CHI lays into franchise trust
3-Apr-2002
Published: 28/03/2002, Volume II2, No. 5798 Page 4 5 -
Concerns grow that new GP contract 'too radical'
14-Mar-2002
Published: 14/03/2002, Volume II2, No. 5796 Page 8 9 -
For what It is worth
14-Mar-2002
Neil McKay is so delighted to take the helm at one of the largest trusts in the country that he's not even bothered about the pay. Paul Stephenson reports -
NHS faces huge cash shortfall
7-Mar-2002
Published: 07/03/2002, Volume II2, No. 5795 Page 4 5 -
NICE denies all claims to MPs
7-Feb-2002
Published: 07/02/2002, Volume II2, No 5791. Page 8 9 -
NICE drugs focus 'misplaced'
31-Jan-2002
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Executive decisions
17-Jan-2002
news focus Finding a future for HA chief executives who didn't make the grade in the last recruitment round - and grooming the leaders of tomorrow's NHS. . Tony Shaw has a new and demanding role, as Paul Stephenson reports -
Waiting-list audits in disarray
10-Jan-2002
Published: 10/01/2001, Volume 112, No. 5787 Page 7 -
Euro-fix 'will not clear backlog'
13-Dec-2001
Published: 13/12/2001, Volume III, No. 5785 Page 10 -
Brown's £1bn 'will not yield quick returns'
29-Nov-2001
The NHS budget is set to rise significantly over the next few years after the Treasury review of longterm trends in healthcare, chaired by former National Westminster Bank group chief executive Derek Wanless, showed that major increases in funding were needed to keep pace with an ageing population and advances in technology. -
Transfer snags blight PFI pilots
29-Nov-2001
Unions and contractors have warned that the private finance initiative pilots - working on a model for transferring NHS staff to private companies - still face huge problems in agreeing contractual arrangements, despite Unison's acceptance that the pilots can proceed. -
Funding gaps deemed 'unbridgeable'
15-Nov-2001
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DoH 'chickening out' on MS trials
8-Nov-2001
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Row ups pressure for CHI independence pressure for CHI independence
1-Nov-2001
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Overhaul for NI primary care
25-Oct-2001
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Pathology turns to private sector cash
18-Oct-2001
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NHS plan targets looking remote as pay, inflation and pensions soak up cash
4-Oct-2001
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'Meet cash promise'to ease rural depression
20-Sep-2001
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PFI fight continues but unions turn focus to transfer of rights
20-Sep-2001
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Legal fears may prompt PFI re-think
13-Sep-2001
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Temporary setback
6-Sep-2001
NEWS FOCUS: Bank and agency staff are often inexperienced and ill-prepared for the task, says the Audit Commission.And they are costing too much.Paul Stephenson reports -
On a hiding to nothing?
16-Aug-2001
Hammersmith Hospitals trust is preaching an open culture.So why hasn't it released the results of its breast-screening audit, asks Paul Stephenson Concerns about the choice of Hammersmith Hospitals trust medical director Professor Rory Shaw to chair the National Patient Safety Agency have once again thrown the trust into the spotlight. -
Open and shut case
16-Aug-2001
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Route planner
2-Aug-2001
NEWS FOCUS: Care trusts are the preferred model for joint working between health and social services.Or are they? Paul Stephenson reports -
Consultants rule against 'empty threats'as contract talks hot up
6-Jul-2001
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When tomorrow comes today
5-Jul-2001
NEWS FOCUS: Working together to drive the modernisation agenda. . .Was it a dream come true when management, finance and nurse trainees got together at HSJ's Future Leaders management challenge? Paul Stephenson reports -
Central purchasing of ringfenced IT cash will hold back local deals
28-Jun-2001
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Consultants rule against 'empty threats' as contract talks hot up
7-Jun-2001
Negotiations for a new consultant contract will not be helped by threats of industrial action, according to the British Medical Association's central consultants' and specialists' committee chair Dr Peter Hawker, who predicted the contract would be in place by the autumn. -
Slow motion
10-May-2001
Failure to force the pace of change in Scotland has been a source of enormous frustration to those on the ground - and to the Scottish health minister. -
Deacon predicts 'radical change'beyond re boards ejigged health
3-May-2001
The Scottish health service will see 'radical change' way beyond current plans to create 15 unified health boards, Scottish health minister Susan Deacon told an HSJ conference last week. -
Pass the smelling salts
3-May-2001
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Troubled finance round triggers joint search for fairer process
19-Apr-2001
Department of Health officials are planning to attend a joint meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and NHS Confederation in June to discuss how to improve the process of agreeing service and financial frameworks across the NHS. -
Out for the count?
12-Apr-2001
NHS finance staff may have to work from a small number of centralised offices if two pilots are a success. Paul Stephenson looks at the implications -
Wake-up calls
12-Apr-2001
Political infighting has dogged debate on where a Wakefield hospital should be built. But work being done in the health action zone is overcoming the rivalry and bringing agencies together, writes Paul Stephenson -
Resources and staffing couuld blight NHS plan timetable hopes
5-Apr-2001
The government's modernisation agenda for the NHS is not achievable within the current timetable unless resources and staffing are increased, according to finance directors. -
Blair GP speech takes DoH by surprise
22-Mar-2001
The details of incentive schemes to be negotiated between primary care groups and trusts and GP surgeries, announced by prime minister Tony Blair this week, have not been properly worked out, and the high-profile announcement took civil servants unawares, according to HSJ sources. -
Primary concerns
22-Mar-2001
Delegates at the NHS Alliance spring conference didn't exactly grasp the GP retention incentives with both hands. Paul Stephenson reports -
Spot the difference
8-Mar-2001
The Liberal Democrats are trying very hard to prove they have different health policies from the Labour Party - and that they're bigger and better. Paul Stephenson reports -
Breast screening unit at centre of audit 'had no system for picking up on clerical errors'
22-Feb-2001
The breast screening unit auditing over 100,000 files of past patients did not have an adequate system to detect clerical errors, and is one of the only units in the country not to employ a superintendent radiographer to oversee its mammography service. -
Ever-decreasing circles
22-Feb-2001
The appointment of Richard Douglas as the NHS's new head of finance has been greeted with universal approval. But there are tricky times ahead, warns Paul Stephenson -
GMC prepares for huge drive to clear 200 conduct cases
22-Feb-2001
The General Medical Council plans to clear a backlog of over 200 professional misconduct cases by the end of the year, and to ensure its new governance arrangements are ready for ministers by the end of May. -
Who's who - at this point in time
15-Feb-2001
Directory of Primary Care 2000-20001 Informa Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare in association with National Association of Primary Care 1,000 pages £125 -
Bodies in chapel probe suggests chief executive was scapegoat
8-Feb-2001
The final report into the bodies in the chapel at Bedford Hospital has increased speculation that the standing down of chief executive Ken Williams was a 'disproportionate' response prompted by the need for a scapegoat. -
Financial gaps in frameworks could knock NHS plan for six
8-Feb-2001
Major financial gaps in agreements between trusts and health authorities across England threaten to hamper the delivery of services promised in the NHS plan. -
Funding shortfall as intermediate care loses out to local pressures
25-Jan-2001
Concerns about a funding shortfall for intermediate services have loomed after it emerged that most of the new money, about £500m, has been allocated to local authorities without being ringfenced. -
'Cutting corners, cutting children'
18-Jan-2001
The organ retention scandal saw a public apology from the chief medical officer last week as, yet again, the medical profession stands accused of acting with arrogance and insensitivity. Paul Stephenson reports -
HAs in deprived areas will lose extra millions in funding revamp
18-Jan-2001
Health authorities in some of the most deprived areas in the country have expressed serious concerns that a new method of allocating inequalities payments has deprived them of millions of pounds of extra funding. -
This Page is not for turning
11-Jan-2001
Northumbria Healthcare trust and its chief executive, Sue Page, are hailed nationally as a model of co-operative working, yet grassroots staff tell a different story. Paul Stephenson finds out why -
Doctors' private clinic 'may worsen wait lists'
14-Dec-2000
Concerns have been raised that a new Darlington private hospital, funded by a consortium of local consultants may worsen already lengthy waiting lists at the local trust. -
Moderniser Page faces tribunal showdown
14-Dec-2000
A clinical director of Northumbria Healthcare trust, whose chief executive, Sue Page, is a member of the NHS modernisation board, has resigned and is taking the trust to an employment tribunal. -
Another fine mesh
7-Dec-2000
A health secretary wrapped in the flag, vehement denials of ministerial interference and more data than the Pentagon - it was all at NICE's second annual conference.Paul Stephenson reports -
All's Hellawell that ends well?
30-Nov-2000
The government's anti-drugs strategy has received almost universal praise - except that few believe it will work, writes Paul Stephenson -
Mortality data auditing in private hospitals 'bad and getting worse'
23-Nov-2000
Private hospital mortality data is poor and getting worse, according to the latest report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Perioperative Deaths published this week. -
Bottling out?
16-Nov-2000
'Difficult' questions are being asked about the sincerity of the government's oft-quoted commitment to tackling the growing problem of alcohol misuse. Paul Stephenson reports -
Quietly does it
9-Nov-2000
The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports -
Beds guarantee ends decades of wrangling over flagship PFI site
20-Jul-2000
The long-awaited redevelopment of University College London Hospitals trust has at last been given the go ahead, following years of political wrangling and industrial action. -
Dispersed asylum seekers 'need improved health access'
1-Jun-2000
Health authorities need to improve health assessments for asylum seekers and ensure they have access to primary care and mental health services, according to the Audit Commission. -
MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
6-Apr-2000
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation. -
Otherwise engaged
30-Mar-2000
In the light of the Fritchie report, the health secretary has proposed changes to the appointments system that will fundamentally alter the relationship between HAs and trusts. Paul Stephenson reports -
Fritchie calls for an end to local nominees on boards
23-Mar-2000
Commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie has called for an end to local authority nominations for NHS chair and nonexecutive posts. -
'Urgent' action demand by NAO as Welsh deficit reaches £80m
23-Mar-2000
The financial performance of the NHS in Wales is continuing to deteriorate, with its underlying cumulative deficit set to rise to £80m by the end of the current financial year, according to the National Audit Office. -
BMA hits out at 'frail' data in league tables
16-Mar-2000
'The frail quality' of information in hospital league tables makes them of little use to patients, doctors or managers, the British Medical Association this week warned. -
Press ahead without me
16-Mar-2000
In his first speech since announcing his resignation, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands emphasised the pressures on health service managers, increasingly in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. Paul Stephenson reports -
A great leveller
9-Mar-2000
The NHS job evaluation scheme should iron out some major anomalies in pay and conditions - and will extend to the very top. Paul Stephenson reports -
Pay of trust chief executives slides to half the rate for equivalents in private sector
2-Mar-2000
Trust chief executives earned an average of £74,000 last year, less than half the comparable figure for private sector companies, according to a report by Pay and Workforce Research. -
So we're all agreed, then
3-Feb-2000
Dysfunctional boards, power games and cover-ups - there were as many issues as opinions at a seminar on performance, writes Paul Stephenson
