Comment archive – Page 475
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Michael White on politics
Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.
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Media watch
The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'
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Mark Britnell on starting life as an SHA chief exec
'I recently chaired a conference where it was put to me that I would be neither a poacher nor a gamekeeper but rather the pheasant!'
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Ten leaders who could put reform progress back on track
What do we know of the chief executives who will be running the new strategic health authorities from next week?
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Good buy to all that: the need for procurement focus
With the government set to become a major purchaser of public services far more attention must be paid to the procurement process, warns Ann Rossiter of the Social Market Foundation
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Laura Donnelly on primary care leaders
One argument is that new strategic health authority chief executives, keen to assert authority and be seen to do so, are indulging in an exercise otherwise known as 'don't think much of yours?'
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Sophia Christie on primary care
'The challenge of the last three years has been demand management. The focus for the next two years must be a considered challenge to activity attribution.'
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Progress is about perception as headlines and reality clash
While optimism over the NHS is low, the public's feelings about services and choice are more positive. These contradictory perceptions mean GPs, managers and the DH have their work cut out ensuring patients 'interpret' reforms favourably, write MORI's Ben Page and Jonathan Nichols
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Day case rates
Marc Farr says day-case rates over the last three years have shown little sign of improvement
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on clinical engagement
'A meeting of minds gets enormous impetus when the fog of data is converted into information'
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'Turnaround teams' - a sticking plaster for a severed limb?
The ability to commission effective and efficient services is completely divorced from strategies to implement and provide cost-effective services, argue Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson
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Skilled analysts of little use to the NHS
Do external consultants working in NHS organisations really deliver the goods? Birmingham University's Jonathan Shapiro argues that they may know how to diagnose problems, but cultural signposts pass them by
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Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'
In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on the right targets
Once upon a time the word target used to have many in healthcare reaching for their crucifixes, or whatever else was needed to ward off evil spirits.
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Michael White on politics
'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'
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Data briefing: Better Care, Better Value indicators
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement recently published the Better Care, Better Value indicators for the second quarter of this financial year. They can be analysed to give some insight into what is happening across the country.
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We can work it out: dementia and the baby boomers
As the baby boomer generation ages, it will present some expensive challenges to services for people with dementia. Alison Moore reports
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Simon Stevens on powering reforms
Almost everywhere you look, it is possible to see the NHS equivalent of electricity transmission losses