All Andrew Jones articles – Page 2

  • Comment

    Managers could face prosecution without infection control

    2007-12-03T09:00:00Z

    Healthcare-associated infections are a serious problem in the NHS. It can only be a matter of time before a prosecution is brought against managers and clinicians at a hospital trust, says Andrew Jones

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    Andrew Jones on the Pandora's box of GP access

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Improved access to family doctors may not be all it is cracked up to be.

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on world-class commissioning

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    'World-class commissioning sounds exciting but the definitions need sharpening up. What does it mean? You might ask: does anyone know and does it really matter?

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on which way now?

    2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

    'I assume in chess terms the ploy was to bewilder the electorate and most senior managers into second guessing the next steps. I have no hidden insights at this point but then I am told the Brown team didn't have many either'

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    Andrew Jones on getting the NHS recipe right

    2007-07-02T00:00:00Z

    'We have a centrally run, demand-driven, hospital-orientated system for an ageing, consumer society with untreated long-term conditions. This recipe will be unsustainable.if the 2007-08 spending round produces a big squeeze'

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    Andrew Jones on independence day

    2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

    'The conundrum is simply how to devolve day-to-day responsibility to an independent board with the benefits of efficient delivery, local decisions and avoidance of political interference'

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    Andrew Jones on aligning incentives

    2007-04-09T00:00:00Z

    'After a few cycles in the policy washing machine, you would have thought we would all have come out looking the same colour and trying to iron out the same creases'

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    Andrew Jones on conspiracy or cock-up

    2006-11-19T10:00:00Z

    'It could be kindly argued that, by general lack of enthusiasm, a third of the country is yet to churn out any meaningful health activity data, yet alone customise or dynamise it to specific local goals. Perhaps more telling is that two-thirds have yet to even put together a simple ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Andrew Jones on financial influence

    2006-10-19T00:00:00Z

    'Providers under fire are likely to react to fill up their capacity and treat more invasively. This will mean more operations and more investigations.'

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on clinical management

    2006-09-07T00:00:00Z

    A lack of understanding on either side only contributes to ludicrous meetings where the only obvious collective truth is self-preservation.