Comment archive – Page 340
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LeaderAgenda for Change was built for a feast. How will it cope with famine?
This year’s Budget puts the squeeze on pay.
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CommentReaders' letters – 19 April 2012
Is the support service market a closed shop? And help is at hand for tinnitus sufferers
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CommentNoel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
The commissioning purse strings remain tightly tied.
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CommentThere are no clear winners from the new price-setting regime
Who stands to gain most from Monitor’s new power to dictate “local modifications” to the price of NHS services?
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CommentMichael White: abortion row gives a glimpse of politically disfiguring culture wars
Partisans are standing firm and playing politics.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: quiet panic at the DH
It is, as they say, the quiet ones you have to watch.
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LeaderCommissioning board mandate must set out a clear vision
CCGs should be wary about what comes next.
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CommentTim Wilson: thirty good men and true
Reassurance, respect, relationships, responsibility and reporting.
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Readers' letters - 12 April 2012
Are 12-hour nursing shifts harming care? Plus a tribute to a popular manager.
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CommentDon Redding: give the public remote control
To create a mandate for the commissioning board that truly belongs to the public, the government should take a cue from the BBC.
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CommentPaul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
It seems to me that the more everyone agrees with the policy of integrated care, the further away the reality of integrated practice seems to be?
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Comment'Technology could change the way medicine is practiced'
IT must be embraced as a clinical tool.
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Readers' Letters - 29 March 2012
Why Harry Cayton is wrong on minimum staffing levels, and hardwiring the patient voice into the system
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CommentMichael White: regional pay policy needs greater attention
The maximum fuss was over minimum pricing.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the hidden cost of foundation status
“Working capital arrangement” can be a £20m trap.
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CommentThe relationship between pharma and the NHS is challenging, not cosy
The three-cornered partnership between the NHS, pharma and academic medicine can only benefit from a more open culture, says Timothy Evans.
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LeaderNew NHS system threatens a tsunami of hospital mergers
A wave of reconfiguration is on the horizon.
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CommentWhat's beneath the surface of the provider market?
This month’s trust chief executive barometer presents a relatively rosy picture of the NHS provider market.