All Health Service Journal articles in 12 November 2009 – Page 3
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Information14 Cynthia Bower
Cynthia Bower has had a challenging year. As chief executive overseeing the merger of three former health and social care regulators into the Care Quality Commission, she brought together different organisational cultures while getting to grips with an entirely new regulatory approach and dealing with the inevitable redundancies, lease issues ...
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Information13 Steve Smith
Leading England’s largest trust and being at the centre of medical innovation secures Professor Steve Smith’s place as HSJ50’s highest placed acute chief executive.
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Information12 David Behan
As the Department of Health’s first ever director general of social care, local government and care partnerships, David Behan has successfully made the transition from sabre rattling regulator to sector wide leader.
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Information11 Mike Farrar
Mike Farrar is the top strategic health authority chief executive in the HSJ50 this year - a recognition of the pioneering quality work his region continues to push forward.
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Information10 Andrew Lansley
The electorate now believes the NHS is safe in Tory hands. That is down to Andrew Lansley.
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Information09 Sir Michael Rawlins
It has been another eventful year for Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, who was reappointed as chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in March after a special exemption allowed him to extend his tenure.
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Information08 Baroness Young of Old Scone
Barbara Young strode into her role as Care Quality Commission chair last year promising to “talk softly and carry a big stick”.
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Information07 Sir Liam Donaldson
The chief medical officer has become the public face of swine flu and is largely responsible for the NHS and government’s response to it, including the purchase of tens of millions of doses of vaccine and Tamiflu.
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Information06 Bill Moyes
Bill Moyes has climbed three places despite the government’s recent strikes at the foundation trust reforms, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal and having only two months left in post.
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Information05 Andy Burnham
Health secretary Andy Burnham came into the post as swine flu swept towards pandemic status; a tough start to what is inevitably going to be a tough job.
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Information04 Sir Bruce Keogh
If, in five or 10 years’ time, a patient is able to get detailed information about the numbers of operations every surgical team carries out, their outcome and how that compares with other specialists, before deciding whether they want a surgeon to cut into them Sir Bruce Keogh will be ...
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Information03 David Flory
If Lord Darzi’s legacy on quality puts him at the number two slot, it is money and control over it which has propelled David Flory’s ascent to number three from 16th place last year.
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Information02 Lord Darzi of Denham
Ara Darzi stood down as a health minister in July but his influence is still central to the NHS and his push for quality is being carried forward.
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Information01 David Nicholson
The financial chill enveloping the NHS has only served to reinforce David Nicholson’s position as the most powerful person in healthcare.
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CommunityPolicy streams
Now you may be worried about an endless stream of new initiatives and top-down reorganisations heading your way some time after June next year.
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CommentMedia Watch: private patients, statins and scurvy
Although the row over the sacking of government drugs adviser David Nutt continued to dominate the headlines, many health correspondents sought their fixes elsewhere this week.
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CommunityInspiring tunes
Delegates at the NHS Employers conference were chomping at the bit to hear Department of Health workforce director Clare Chapman’s speech.
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NewsTrusts frustrated over ‘worse’ mortality rates
Hospital trusts are “surprised and frustrated” by latest mortality ratios that suggest their performance has worsened.
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CommunityFreudian QIPP?
Whoops. QIPP tsar Jim Easton opened his blog post on ournhs.nhs.uk last week by explaining: “I’m responsible for looking at the issues surrounding how we achieve quality while almost meeting the financial challenges ahead.”
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CommentMichael White: FT freedoms and the election
Barely a couple of days pass without some potentially significant policy shift on the health and social care front from the political parties.