All articles by Alastair McLellan – Page 13
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Comment
The Bedpan: Financially illiterate and morally wrong
This week: Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree
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The Bedpan: Let them eat pizza
This week: John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance
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Comment
The Bedpan: The NHS after capitalism
The Bedpan is HSJ’s new weekly political column. This week, it features Paul Mason, former journalist and an intellectual driving force of the resurgent radical left.
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Comment
The Bedpan: Stevens’ Tory Plan
The Bedpan is HSJ’s new weekly political column. This week, it features Fraser Nelson, the editor of Tory ‘house magazine’ the Spectator.
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News
Hancock: ‘we need to fire fewer chief executives’
Health secretary Matt Hancock has said the NHS must stop responding to perceived service or project failures by firing NHS trust chief executives.
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Leader
Matt Hancock’s endorsement of Babylon risks undermining NHS innovation
HSJ editor Alastair McLellan says the health and social care secretary’s endorsement of Babylon Health risks undermining innovation efforts in the NHS.
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Leader
Pragmatic Stevens focusses on keeping his vision alive
Simon Stevens is a man on a mission – and that mission is to control expectations.
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Leader
What Matt Hancock’s arrival means for the NHS
The new health and social care secretary is keen to make his mark quickly, and has much to get to grips with, says Alastair McLellan.
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Leader
Jeremy Hunt: a ‘good’ health secretary?
Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as health secretary - the longest there has been - has come to an end. HSJ editor Alastair Mclellan reflects on his achievements and missteps.
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News
Exclusive: Inside Jeremy Hunt’s Monday meetings
On 4 June, two HSJ journalists spent the day attending the regular Monday meetings chaired by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Leader
How much will the government give the NHS for its 70th birthday?
Before the NHS turns 70 on 5 July, the government will have revealed its broad ambitions for the “sustainable long term plan”.
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Leader
The nation's love affair with the NHS is endangering its health
Asked recently to reflect on his record as prime minister, Tony Blair chose the failure to tackle inequality as his greatest oversight.
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Leader
Why the CQC could inadvertently threaten NHS funding
Ted Baker, the chief inspector of hospitals, recently presented the latest Care Quality Commission inspection results to trust chief executives at a meeting organised by NHS Improvement and NHS England. His overall conclusion was that quality at NHS trusts was improving.
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Leader
The nine tests that will prove if the government is serious about NHS reform
A year after the publication of the Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens set out five tests for George Osborne as he prepared the 2015 spending review, which the NHS England chief hoped would fund his vision.
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Leader
Why the NHS England and NHS Improvement integration plans matter
The convoluted nature of the NHS’s national oversight is the product of the bungled Lansley reforms.
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Leader
Updated: May makes a bid for her place in NHS history
Time will tell if Theresa May’s intervention buys her a place alongside Thatcher and Blair in NHS history, writes Alastair McLellan.
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News
Three women lead the HSJ top 50 trust chief executives
Three female CEOs lead this year’s HSJ top 50 trust chief executives, while some big acute bosses slip down or out of the rankings.
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Leader
Innovation is vital to the NHS's sustainability and future
Alastair McLellan on how the HSJ Partnership Awards winners and those shortlisted have accepted the challenge to help the NHS deliver during a period of intense pressure
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Leader
A very NHS compromise
The planning guidance is based on a new compromise between Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt, but it underlines the fundamental problems afflicting the NHS, writes Alastair McLellan.
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Leader
What 2018 will bring for NHS patients, staff and leaders
The NHS has known grimmer years than the one in which it will mark its 70th birthday, but probably not one that will feel as tough.