External contributors – Page 182
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CommentStaff should be protected from 'never events'
The safety of healthcare workers should also be a factor on the never events list
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CommentTransforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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CommentWe must root out ageism in NHS cancer care
Bold steps now can improve cancer care in the long term
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Readers' letters - 20 December 2012
Reaction to the impact on general practice of a new funding formula and the future budget for specialised commissioning. Plus why front line nurses are not to blame for a lack of compassionate care
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CommentNHS managers' car metaphors belong on the scrapheap
Managers’ language can be damaging for the wider workforce
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CommentHealth leaders on Twitter have a public health responsibility
Health leaders can use social media to improve public health
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CommentNHS must plan for a longer austerity than we imagined
The autumn statement reveals frightening truths about savings
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CommentToo big to fail: why PFI will get a helping hand in an emergency
PFI creditors are likely to be protected when NHS trusts fail
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CommentA timely strategy for hospitals to cope with demand
Acute trusts cannot prevent overcrowding but they can reduce demand
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CommentMiles Ayling on health delivery
How will the NHS drive improvements in quality and value at a time of significant financial pressure?
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Comment‘What we need is to find problems that are exquisitely difficult’
Brunel University’s professor of healthcare systems Terry Young is on a quest to bring modelling and simulation into health service delivery
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CommentSally Gainsbury: Gilding the NHS settlement lily
Paul Baumann may struggle to spread some seasonal cheer to CCGs
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CommentMichael White: some notes on some scandals
Care scandals must not always leave the buck with hard-pressed staff
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CommentWhy the friends and family test won't work
The test will overload NHS leaders with more meaningless data
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CommentFulfilling the mandate will be worth the effort
Developing the NHS mandate was complex and time consuming but it is a good document
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CommentHSJ100 2012: Under 'Baron' Nicholson, a new health aristocracy takes shape
Sir David Nicholson divides the world of healthcare leaders between “barons” and “knights”.
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How the HSJ100 is judged
The HSJ100 seeks to indicate who will have the greatest influence over English health policy and the NHS in the 12 months from November 2012.
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HSJ100 2012: Waiting for Mr Francis
The seventh year of the HSJ100 in the wake of the passage of the Health Act reveals a landscape under transition as well as scrutiny.
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Ali Parsa on technology in healthcare
My grandchildren will not recognise the medicine and healthcare I receive today