Richard Vize
Richard Vize was editor of HSJ 2007-2010. He is now a journalist writing about health, local government and public service reform for the Guardian and elsewhere, as well as providing communications consultancy. richard.vize@gmail.com Follow Richard on Twitter twitter.com/RichardVize
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Blog Posts (23)
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There is now a pattern in the government's approach to competition
The Department of Health is trying to silence the cooperation and competition panel, to stop health secretary Andy Burnham’s “preferred provider” policy being exposed as illegal.
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One country, one surgeon
A tiny Caribbean nation is looking for healthcare insights from the UK
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The money makers at the BMA
The BMA campaign Look After Our NHS is a highly distorted portrayal of the health service
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Do you think you 'deserve sex'?
The vetting and barring panel could strike you off
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Mutual appreciation society
Mutualism is the latest public sector reform craze, with all three parties talking it up. Could it work in healthcare?
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Comment on: Council chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
A great lesson for the Department of Health in local government's refusal to be herded. This will be just the first of many culture clashes between the hierarchical, centralised NHS and locally accountable councils.
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Comment on: On Arctic marathons and large scale change
I enjoyed your first blog. The danger of adopting the opposite approach to engaging teams in change was wonderfully illustrated by the recent film The Damned United, when Brian Clough famously told a surly gathering of Leeds players: "You can chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and all your pans into the biggest ******* dustbin you can find." A football fan colleague tells me that, just in case he hadn't made himself clear, Clough dragged the desk of predecessor Don Revie into the car park and set fire to it.
