Comment archive – Page 311
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CommentSally Gainsbury: Gilding the NHS settlement lily
Paul Baumann may struggle to spread some seasonal cheer to CCGs
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Comment‘What we need is to find problems that are exquisitely difficult’
Brunel University’s professor of healthcare systems Terry Young is on a quest to bring modelling and simulation into health service delivery
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CommentMichael White: some notes on some scandals
Care scandals must not always leave the buck with hard-pressed staff
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CommentWhy the friends and family test won't work
The test will overload NHS leaders with more meaningless data
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CommentFulfilling the mandate will be worth the effort
Developing the NHS mandate was complex and time consuming but it is a good document
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CommentHSJ100 2012: Under 'Baron' Nicholson, a new health aristocracy takes shape
Sir David Nicholson divides the world of healthcare leaders between “barons” and “knights”.
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How the HSJ100 is judged
The HSJ100 seeks to indicate who will have the greatest influence over English health policy and the NHS in the 12 months from November 2012.
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CommentA research engine could drive the NHS to lead the world
Through more open data sharing and by driving clinical trials the NHS can again be the ‘envy of the world’
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HSJ100 2012: Waiting for Mr Francis
The seventh year of the HSJ100 in the wake of the passage of the Health Act reveals a landscape under transition as well as scrutiny.
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LeaderCSUs are heading for centre-stage
The vision for commissioning support units is expanding under Bob Ricketts
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CommentCCG budgets: Challenging or naive?
Many CCG leaders are approaching important issues with a novel or naive attitude
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CommentWe must beat our hospital addiction
Fresh thinking is needed to avoid a social care funding crisis, says Lord Warner
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Ali Parsa on technology in healthcare
My grandchildren will not recognise the medicine and healthcare I receive today
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Readers' letters - 6 December 2012
Support for Jeremy Hunt’s “technology revolution”, and an assertion that NHS providers are better placed than independent ones to provide integrated secure services
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CommentHunt picks out a worthy target
The health secretary is modelling himself on Michael Gove and Einstein
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CommentHow to make integration work
Achieving the health secretary’s “holy grail” of integrated care requires big changes
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CommentHunt should remove workforce straitjackets
To improve quality we need transformational approaches
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CommentSally Gainsbury: cold comfort from 'reassurance'
The government’s “assurances” need looking at closely