External contributors – Page 194
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CommentUnemployment is bad for your health - now and in the future
Public health work at one primary care trust has shown how unemployment could have massive impact on a generation’s life expectancy, and why it’s important they get back to work. John Middleton reports.
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CommentNorman Williams on driving change
The revolution in access to cardiac surgery that Devi Shetty has facilitated in India shows what is possible through clinical leadership.
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CommentAli Parsa on hospital process management
A major management challenge for hospital operators is the fact that hospitals are hybrid organisations.
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Comment'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'
Devi Shetty – nicknamed the Henry Ford of heart surgery – believes developments such as computerised diagnoses and technicians doing the work of highly trained medics are just around the corner. Ben Clover hears his ideas for the future of medicine.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: acute hospitals are living in Monitor's 'downside'
The regulator’s effciency savings target is worsening.
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CommentMichael White: the battle over waiting times is blurred by both sides
Headline-grabbing allegations are nothing a good figures massage can’t sort.
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CommentNigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
Does the Health Act leave Lansley powerless?
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CommentThe duty of communicating information to patients
Healthcare regulators need to communicate risks loud and clear.
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CommentMedia Watch: Lansley's regional pay plan is 'from another planet'
Health policy in the media this week.
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CommentMichael White: the many faces of Conservative ministers
Voters still don’t know which template fits the Tories best.
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Comment'The NHS could miss the next care revolution'
HSJ interviews GE Healthcare president John Dineen.
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CommentReaders' letters – 19 April 2012
Is the support service market a closed shop? And help is at hand for tinnitus sufferers
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CommentNoel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
The commissioning purse strings remain tightly tied.
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CommentMichael White: abortion row gives a glimpse of politically disfiguring culture wars
Partisans are standing firm and playing politics.
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CommentThere are no clear winners from the new price-setting regime
Who stands to gain most from Monitor’s new power to dictate “local modifications” to the price of NHS services?
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CommentSally Gainsbury: quiet panic at the DH
It is, as they say, the quiet ones you have to watch.
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