Comment archive – Page 327
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Comment'Mandating staffing levels is not the answer to reducing poor care'
Does fewer staff equate to less quality?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
Could we see CSSs regulate CCGs?
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CommentMichael White: bill-bashing Lib Dems may take their own hits in the polls
Michael White’s politics column.
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CommentCould an NHS trust be allowed to go bankrupt?
Hospitals in the wrong place at the wrong time are in danger.
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LeaderHSJ…more for healthcare leaders
One thing unites HSJ readers, whether they have a clinical or non-clinical background, work in the NHS or provide services from the private sector: they are all leaders.
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CommentReaders' Letters - 15 March 2012
Taking responsibility, translation costs and correct toilet behaviour.
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CommentTrust mergers don't guarantee more for less
Mergering healthcare organisations should be viewed with caution, unless there are clear and demonstrable benefits to patient services, says Nuffield Trust chief economist Anita Charlesworth.
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LeaderExperienced GPs and managers can give CCGs the best start
Commissioning will, at first, need experience at the helm.
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CommentClare Gerada: just don't call me 'ballbreaker'
On why leadership is no longer a man’s domain.
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LeaderOut of CSS failure will come a ready-made market
How important is it that CSSs are set up along commercial lines?
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Comment'High volume surgery outcomes suggest there is safety in numbers'
Consultant surgeons Ross Naylor, Michael Wyatt and David Mitchell explain.
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CommentMedia Watch: Cameron dishing out the Gove love
The health headlines from across the British media.
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CommentMichael White: despite everything, the health secretary is going nowhere
Lansley the Indispensible?
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Pathology services a target for cost savings in the East
Pathology is not immune to the need for cost savings affecting all areas of the NHS - nor the pressure from GPs for a better service.
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CommentWedding bells turn to alarm bells for South West commissioning support service
The self-proclaimed “grandest wedding venue” in the South West was the venue for the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire primary care trust cluster’s board meeting.
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LeaderThe fate of unsustainable services is back in the hands of the centre
Alastair McLellan’s editorial.
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Stephen Dorrell: re-engineering the care model
The health service has changed but, in comparison to other services and sectors, not enough. There is plenty of room for improvement, says Stephen Dorrell.