Health Service Journal
Simon Stevens
Simon Stevens is a CEO at UnitedHealth and a trustee of the Kings Fund.
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Simon Stevens: living to be 500, death by asteroid, and the inevitability of NHS reform
1 March 2012
Health reformers should paint an inspiring vision of what progress could mean for patients and for health professionals rather than focus on the negatives that have necessitated it, says Simon Stevens. -
Simon Stevens on incentives for doctors vs incentives for patients
26 November 2009
Stop the presses for some shock news. British GPs are happy. At least relatively speaking. -
Simon Stevens on the best healthcare system in the world
22 October 2009
Torture the statistics until they confess. That seems to be the approach of many academics, journalists and policy wonks to the ideologically loaded question: which country’s healthcare system is best? -
Simon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
17 September 2009
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons. -
Simon Stevens on an NHS budget showdown
13 August 2009
Who gets what? Surely that is the essence of politics, and never more so than when times are tight. When a rising tide carries all boats, economic growth tends to obscure the question. -
Simon Stevens: on lifestyles and living beyond 100
9 July 2009
If all goes well, next month my wife’s grandma will turn 100. That is a birthday only around one in 5,000 of her peers will be around to celebrate. Not bad for a woman who, like millions of others, emigrated between the two world wars from eastern Europe to New York, arriving at Ellis Island with all her worldly possessions in a battered suitcase. -
Simon Stevens on toothless dental policies
4 June 2009
Dentistry. The very word is enough to sink hearts on the fourth floor of Richmond House. The dental status quo is always said to be terrible. And every change allegedly makes it worse. That is what happened after the 1990 dental contract, and again after the 2006 contract. -
Simon Stevens on what the Budget means for health spending
30 April 2009
So the Budget has confirmed what we already knew: there’s a major public spending crunch ahead. Spending across government is targeted to grow at just 0.7 per cent over the period 2011-12 to 2013-14. -
Simon Stevens on influencing clinical decision making
26 March 2009
Paradoxically one of the most important determinants of healthcare quality and efficiency is one that NHS managers can do very little to influence, in fact it is practically invisible to the managerial gaze: the quality of clinical decision making. -
Simon Stevens on NHS lessons from the circus
19-Feb-2009
At a recent dinner I found myself sitting next to the worldwide chief operating officer of Cirque du Soleil. -
Simon Stevens on an NHS game plan for 2009
15-Jan-2009
Happy New Year. Or is it? With so much talk of recession and economic gloom, it's easy to forget the NHS's benign position, compared with - say - the car industry, retail, or financial services. -
Simon Stevens on Barack Obama's first steps
20-Nov-2008
So what does Barack Obama's election victory mean for the future of the US health system? And what lessons, if any, are US policy makers likely to derive from recent NHS reforms? -
Simon Stevens on health policy trends
2-Oct-2008
Rather than attend this year's party conferences, I decided instead to take the temperature on US health reform at the two presidential nominating conventions. -
Simon Stevens on the top-up payment maze
4-Sep-2008
The government has committed to answering at some time in the coming weeks a highly awkward dilemma: whether or not to allow NHS patients to make 'top-up' payments to cover treatments the NHS will not fund. -
Simon Stevens on a good year for Darzi
10-Jul-2008
As wine experts will occasionally admit, it's hard to know how a new vintage will perform. Wines age, maturation takes time. And a decent bottle may be overshadowed by a later blockbuster year. -
Simon Stevens on on China's plans for healthcare
12-Jun-2008
In Beijing a few weeks ago, discussing alternative health reform models with Chinese government officials, I was struck by the fact that at about the time the NHS Plan was being formulated in 2000, China was embarking on a similar 10-year health plan. -
Simon Stevens on value for money in the NHS
8-May-2008
What is the biggest black box in the NHS? By which I mean, where is the worst ratio of cash to clarity about what taxpayers are getting for their money? -
Simon Stevens on improving payment by results
3-Apr-2008
In my last column, I discussed evidence on how payment by results is actually working. -
Simon Stevens on local pay and national prices
28-Feb-2008
When doctors everywhere are being urged to become more evidence based in their clinical practice, a standard retort is that health policy makers should do the same. -
Simon Stevens on Brown's first health speech
17-Jan-2008
Until last week, Gordon Brown had been surprisingly - even painfully - quiet on where he thought the NHS should be headed. But last Monday he finally showed some leg, in the form of his first major health pronunciamento since moving into Number 10. -
Simon Stevens on the science of incentives
6-Dec-2007
During the coffee break at a seminar I once attended, I let slip that I thought two of my fellow panellists seemed 'quite switched on'. 'Yes,' a delegate replied, 'they've both got a Nobel Prize'. Umm, amazing powers of insight, Stevens. -
Simon Stevens on choice and midwifery
1-Nov-2007
We could be getting a lot more out of our midwifery services if they were organised differently -
Simon Stevens on the spending review's hidden shallows
11-Oct-2007
Although comprehensive spending review negotiations consume hundreds of person years in Whitehall, this effort is largely pointless, argues Simon Stevens -
Simon Stevens on junior doctors
23-Aug-2007
'Junior doctors have in some respects been their own worst enemy' -
Simon Stevens on Brown's opening salvo
1-Jan-2007
‘Mr Brown has chosen an issue that explicitly requires him to choose sides: patients v professionals’ -
Simon Stevens on the case for independence
1-Jan-2007
It now seems likely that, regardless of political party, our next prime minister will toy with some version of 'independence' for the NHS. Independence for the Bank of England is seen as one of the government's more important reforms, so an NHS parallel could resonate. And shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley told the NHS Confederation conference that the time has come 'to take politicians out of the day-to-day management' of the service. -
SIMON STEVENS ON THE SHAPE OF REFORM
24-Nov-2005
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SIMON STEVENS ON CONTRACTS AND INCENTIVES
15-Sep-2005
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SIMON STEVENS ON PCTS' DEMISE
11-Aug-2005
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SIMON STEVENS ON BEING PATIENT-FOCUSED
2-Jun-2005
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28-Apr-2005
SIMON STEVENS ON POST-ELECTION PRIORITIES -
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24-Mar-2005
SIMON STEVENS ON THE COURAGE OF CONVICTIONS -
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17-Feb-2005
SIMON STEVENS ON REGULATION -
SIMON STEVENS ON BATTLES FOR 2005
13-Jan-2005
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