Comment archive – Page 462
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on going back to the floor
There's often no holding back. I got short shrift once from the cardiac nurses over agency staff policy.
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Media Watch
'Sack prat Pat' urged The Sun's leader as the paper told readers at the end of last week that 'if there's any justice, Pat Hewitt is not long for this political world'.
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Media Watch
'The backlash came fast and furious. Leading doctors? Bully boys intent on pushing homeopathy out of the NHS, said the What Doctors Don't Tell You website'
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A year in review: catching up with the excess in 12 turbulent months
2006 has been dominated by efficiency drives and government reforms. Financial problems began to bite and the public took to the streets over attempts to revamp local services. Amid the financial storm, NHS chief executive Sir Nigel Crisp resigned and only two trusts got top marks in the Healthcare Commission's ...
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Christmas comes early, so must planning
Last year most primary care trust chief executives polled by HSJthought their local delivery plans were badly flawed by an operating framework delivered late and with significant errors in the tariff.
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Devolving central budgets
David Nicholson needs to ensure that Cinderella services have ring-fenced funding when he devolves 90 per cent of the NHS funds to local budgets.
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Patricia Hewitt's letter regarding Monitor Compliance
Your article on 7 December ( Monitor will demand service level figures from foundation trusts) refers to general comments I made during last month's NHS Alliance conference about the importance of effective partnership working in the NHS.
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Hilary Thomas on clinical management
'The gap - often a tribal or cultural one - between doctors and managers seems to be widening again, not helped by the current, and inevitable, obsession with finance.'
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Michael Mandelstam imagines the confessions of a chief executive
'I follow neither rhyme nor reason, only the health secretary. I am a member of an elite, a new breed of NHS chief executive, ruthless and efficient - not like the old softies, few of whom now remain'
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Nicolaus Henke on Michael Porter's partial answer
The Harvard Business School guru's book Redefining Healthcareis a fascinating but flawed study of reform from which the NHS could learn, says McKinsey's head of global health systems
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Comment: National directors sign up to reform
No-one ever argues with the case that clinicians at every level are integral to successful service reform. But it is a truth observed more in the intention than the action. It is therefore welcome, although a little late in the day, for the government to wheel out two national clinical ...
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Your Humble Servant: how do you solve a problem like Patricia...?
To: Don Wise, chief executive
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Bed day costs
The Department of Health productivity indicators (click herefor story) detail how much each trust can save by reducing bed stay.
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Learning disability and language
Letters from Sam Smith, executive director, C-Change for Inclusion, Glasgow; Val Rowlands, superintendent physiotherapist, Stockport Learning Disability Service; and Rod Campbell, director of communication and development, The Regard Partnership, Kingston-upon-Thames
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Service link economics
Can Monitor chair Bill Moyes and KPMG consultant Kate Barber explain what is new about the 'The new economics' and justify the statement: 'Treating individual services as profit and loss units promises to transform financial management and clinical engagement' ( HSJ, 16 November 2006)?
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In a challenging year, our success is yours
Tonight, HSJis hosting its biggest-ever awards ceremony - this year we received more than 900 entries across 18 categories and more than 1,000 people will attend our prize-giving event in central London. In this, the Awards' 25th anniversary year, the success of the event is a ...
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Manchester inequalities missing
Letter from David Regan, director, Manchester Joint Health Unit
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Neil Goodwin on Serbian princes and American cousins
'Mixing with Europeans always reminds me how European we are in the UK and how much less we have in common with the USA'
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Feedback to 'A formula for unfairness'
I read with interest the article in your 16 thNovember edition ' A formula for unfairness'. It confirms the views that many of us have had that there is something wrong with the grant distribution formula used by Government.
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Return to the windmill - behavioural modelling and the future
The lack of a 'big picture' of where reforms will take us means investment and strategic planning are severely hampered. Alasdair Liddell and Laurie McMahon describe a behavioural modelling approach that can help