Comment archive – Page 456
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Public health barometer: Dec 2006
Faith in national targets on child obesity and teenage pregnancy continued to fall, according to results from the latest HSJ Barometer survey of primary care trust public health directors.
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Pret a Porter?: what a US business guru has to teach the NHS
An academic tome about the US health system, even one co-authored by one of the world's most renowned business theorists, seems an unlikely hit for an NHS audience. But Redefining Healthcare: creating value-based competition on results, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, has caught the attention of UK policy-makers, ...
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Media watch
And there you were thinking he seemed like such a quiet chap, but last week health minister Andy Burnham came out all guns blazing as he took at a swipe at people who 'get out their placards' when their local hospitals face closure.
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HSJ Barometer: mental health December 2006
Mental health chief executives are increasingly confident this month that they will achieve financial balance.
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Patient and public involvement: clear water must flow into the goldfish bowl
Looking for a place to hide? Try the massed ranks of organisations currently holding the NHS to account. Jessica Crowe suggests clarity lies in resolving what it is accountability structures should be delivering
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Sophia Christie on national and local tensions
Despite a bad press, national targets have challenged our complacency about poor health in poor people and poor services to support them.
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Michael White on politics
In Oz there is tension over the public sector losing out in budget tussles with private-sector providers
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Media watch
The surrounding media coverage has led to yet another round of NHS manager bashing
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Increased activity may put bright future at risk
While health service investment has soared, the pressure on organisations to secure financial control may be driving down productivity. Peter Smith unravels the paradox
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Noel Pumridge on workforce planning
Or, in simple terms, why should the NHS pay a nurse in Workington almost as much as a nurse in Wimbledon? She'll only fritter it away anyway.
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How doctors learned to stop worrying and love data
The NHS has never lacked information, but, says Dr Foster Intelligence's Tim Kelsey, only now are managers and clinicians harnessing its power to change services. Public access is the next big challenge
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Barometer: PCTs January 2007
The latest Barometer survey of primary care trust chief executives showed growing confidence in negotiating power with acute providers, with the indicator score up again to 6.88 out of 10.
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PBR versus payment for performance
Mike Farrar ('PbR to become 'payment for performance' in NHS North West', HSJ 1 February) is right - there is no reason why pay for performance (P4P) can't be introduced into the NHS.
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Michael White on consultants
Chairing a session at a recent Unison conference on the future of the NHS I chided Clive Efford, Labour MP for Eltham in south London, after he had cheerfully abused consultants. I think the word he used was 'spivs', unaware that the room was full of them, including the nice ...
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Media Watch: all-night surgery
Another week, another pledge from the prime minister. This time he says surgeons will work at night.
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Michael White: junior doctors
'Hewitt would have watched footage of Cameron being cheered by a throng of angry junior doctors with some alarm'
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Laura Donnelly on thoughts at last orders
'I used to be frightened when a colleague wore a Virginia Bottomley mask in times of stress'
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Listen and learn: keys to good commissioning
How does accountability to patients and the public fit into the commissioning framework, asks David Colin-Thome. Below, Tim Gilling outlines the 10 areas essential to effective scrutiny