All Comment articles – Page 321
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CommentBrown's equality drive must begin at birth
More low-weight babies are born in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. This should be at the front of the next prime minister’s mind as he strives to give every child an equal chance, says Louise Bamfield
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Why the bedside has a place in the boardroom
Imagine sitting through a board meeting at Tesco. The meeting lasts three hours and at no time do chair Sir Terry Leahy and his directors talk about their customers or how satisfied those customers might be with the products and stores. It's a ridiculous notion, isn't it?
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Kaiser beacons shine light on NHS practice
A little like 'golden generation' of English footballers', the phrase Kaiser Permanente has all but disappeared from the health policy lexicon as a byword for innovation.
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MALCOLM LOWE-LAURI on Boards and Barricades
The best boards are where the debate involves all the players, is messy but retains a sense of form
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Order in the house: will legislation strike the right balance?
The supervised community treatment order is the latest legislative tool aimed at tackling 'revolving door' patients. But does it go too far? Mark Gould hears the pros and cons
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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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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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Maternity services are everyone's baby
Labour's most recent election manifesto promised that by 2009 all women would have choice on where and how they have their baby.
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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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Time to tear ourselves away from paper
Trusts' reluctance to store patient records electronically is a national scandal which is draining resources, harming patient care and limiting the potential of historical archives, argues Capita's Robert McIndoe
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Data briefing: How length of stay varies by SHA area
There is growing demand for new and innovative indicators to measure variations in performance between acute trusts. Length of stay measures include indicators of excess bed days, analysis over time and giving lengths of stay for specific diagnoses or procedures.
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John Appleby: New thinking on health variations
Arguments about what we get for our billions of NHS pounds rumble on. The Department of Health's latest analysis - noted here last month - claims the extra billions have essentially been spent on extra staff. We could take it to be a good thing - if the job of ...
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Anna Donald on lessons from Australia
'The NHS can't avoid political controversy, because what it does is too important, complex, and subject to debate'
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Anna Donald on turning cogs in a blancmange
'Most doctors would struggle to conceive of a hospital in anything other than descriptive terms'
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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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Simon Stevens on the lost art of analysis
'Explaining NHS Deficits detonates many of the most powerful urban myths surrounding the NHS'.
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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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Come back, bowler brigade, all is forgiven
The Department of Health is the department the government wants - lean, responsive and focused. But is that what the health service needs? Scott Greer says the DoH should start answering back to government
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Pick-and-mix NHS will serve all customers
Having the right people involved in the right discussions is the key to keeping the NHS in check, says Anna Coote, while Jessica Crowe argues for a wide form of accountability that leaves no voice unheard