External contributors – Page 139
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CommentEnd Game: Simon Stevens as Shakespearean hero and election winner
Simon Stevens’ history lesson
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CommentWhy plans to 'ration' surgery in Devon were too politically unpalatable
A canary in a coalmine?
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CommentThe NHS contract will make perverse targets worse for hospitals
They are less likely to clear backlogs
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CommentHSJ100 analysis - politics: Importance of NHS is the only certainty in next election
Our top names are those best positioned to shape a year of volatility and voters, writes HSJ editor Alastair McLellan
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – commissioning: Stevens’ style reinforces his position
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-COMMISSIONINGHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-COMMISSIONING Simon Stevens’ immense political capital means much of the power and influence in the commissioning system sits with him in the top spot. Were they allowed, the judges might have considered inventing a position above number one for him.His position is ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – providers: Trusts will weather a time of faltering and flux
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-PROVIDERSHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-PROVIDERS The provider sector is facing significant upheaval in 2015 - even before you take into account the finance and performance problems trusts will undoubtedly face.Simon Stevens’ “horses for courses” approach to pushing new organisational forms for NHS providers might sit awkwardly ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis - finance: Civil servants and Labour rise on tide of the two big dates
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-FINANCEHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-FINANCE There are two dates in 2015 that loom very large in the minds of all those on the HSJ100 with responsibility for the financial health of the NHS.The first is 31 March, which will bring to a close the toughest financial ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – technology: Amateur night is over but top tech talent is still wanting
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-TECHNOLOGYHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-TECHNOLOGY NHS England’s national director for patients and information Tim Kelsey (42) sent out an unequivocal message to health service leaders last month to mark the launch of an NHS national technology strategy.“Interoperability and safe digital record keeping is no longer a ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – safety and quality: Post-Francis NHS must stay safe without spending more
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-SAFETYHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-SAFETY After the sea change in focus on quality and safety that followed the 2013 Francis report, 2015 will be about ensuring the issue remains at the top of the list in the face of an ever more challenging financial position.The pre-eminence ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – workforce: Recruitment set to become key political battleground
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-WORKFORCEHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-WORKFORCE The last 18 months has seen an unprecedented focus on the NHS workforce following the Francis report into the failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and this is unlikely to lessen in the coming year despite mounting financial pressures on acute ...
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CommentHSJ100 analysis – integration: The ‘joined up’ thinkers at the heart of party policy
HSJ100 LEADERS ICON-INTEGRATIONHSJ100 LEADERS ICON-INTEGRATION In various forms, integration is the dominant principle underpinning the policy offers from all three major parties, and in particular explains the positioning of Norman Lamb and Andy Burnham in the top 100.Mr Lamb (16) can lay claim to being the ...
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CommentPharmacists as care givers can make the forward view come true
A chance for new models of care
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CommentEngland's £250m waiting list initiative slips again
October was another flop for the government’s waiting list policy
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CommentReshape guidelines on body contouring surgery to best treat obese patients
After weight loss surgery
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CommentFTI Consulting analysis: Survey points to obstacles in way of forward view vision
Poll shows obstacles reformers are likely to face
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CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema