All Ara Darzi articles – Page 6
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News
Regions told to re-examine Darzi visions
Every strategic health authority region will be told to re-examine its Darzi strategy to take account of the toughening financial regime.
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Comment
Lord Darzi on the first year of high quality care for all
The NHS’s cup is not running over as the service enters a period of increasing financial pressure, but the vintage laid down last year offers the best hope for everyone’s future
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Leader
One year down Darzi’s road the way ahead looks a lot tougher
A year on from the launch of Lord Darzi’s next stage review, both the progress and the huge distance still to travel are clear.
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Comment
How to create a culture of safety in the NHS
Almost every week, there are examples of poorly co-ordinated healthcare in the national papers: a “hospital blunder” here, a “scandal” there. But what will really wake clinicians up are the failures at Mid Staffordshire.
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News
Best primary care trusts to get franchise on rest
Top primary care trusts will be able to take over poor performing PCTs as franchises under sweeping changes set to boost commissioning performance.
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Comment
A guide to clinical champions and commissioning
Building effective clinical leadership and engagement is the key to improving services, writes Jackie Kay
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Comment
Nigel Crisp on what a new Griffiths would bring
I am a Griffiths manager. The Griffiths report brought me into health from a career in business and charities. As a result of Griffiths I was launched on a fascinating journey from running a mental handicap unit, as it then was, to working with health services in some of the ...
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Supplements
Round table - health Innovation: the future's bright
As spending is reined in the NHS must find ways to increase quality without raising costs. The answer, according to chief executive David Nicholson, is innovation. Jennifer Taylor finds out how the NHS can become cutting edge while stimulating economic growth
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Blogs
Look, it’s a Darzi vision – in multicolour!
Roughly a year after the Darzi documents were published, it is time to look back. That process may be gratifying, inspiring or horrifying, but it will almost certainly be tedious.
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HSJ Knowledge
Workforce planning
Planning the healthcare workforce has traditionally centred on ensuring that the correct numbers of each type of specialty professional are trained and employed in order to deliver a defined area of service.
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News
Quality and safety can't 'solve' NHS funding crisis
The NHS should not look to quality and safety improvements to solve its impending funding problems, leaders in the field have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS quality improvement: delivering and demonstrating quality
Following our highly successful Quality Information Assurance online seminar, in partnership with Oracle, in February, we are delighted to bring you the next step in supporting you on your quality journey: Quality Improvement - delivering and demonstrating quality in the NHS.
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News
Department of Health publishes list of quality measures
The Department of Health will this Friday publish a “menu” of measures agreed by senior clinicians for judging the quality of their care.
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Leader
Patient reported outcome measures raise questions of how need for operations is decided
HSJ’s revelation this week that tens of millions of pounds are being spent on treatments that arguably do not improve patients’ lives serves to focus minds.
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News
Imperial College Healthcare pioneers shift in managerial relations
Imperial College Healthcare trust chief executive Steve Smith tells Alastair McLellan how the new academic health science centre allowed a radical cultural shift to clinical leadership
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News
DH invites NHS education and innovation cluster bids
Groups of NHS organisations, universities and colleges, and private companies are expected to form clusters, with the potential to take on responsibility for health education, by the end of the year.
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HSJ Knowledge
Guidance on implementing the never events framework
Operating on the wrong part, or leaving an instrument inside a patient, should not happen. Martin Fletcher and Tanya Huehns look at attempts to make such ‘never events’ history
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Supplements
Economy class: Get creative with your training budget
As NHS workforce development becomes more quality driven, higher education institutions can expect more rigorous monitoring of provision by education commissioners. For example, key performance indicators will be expected by NHS commissioners of educational provision.
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Comment
Mark Goldman on clinical leadership's tipping point
Many years ago, I was advised by an eminent professor that if enough people all wanted something to happen at the same time it always happened. As far as the events of men rather than nature are concerned, this has proved to be a truth.