External contributors – Page 312
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Simon Stevens on engagement and alienation
'Clinical engagement has to be approached critically. It cannot be pursued as an end in its own right'
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Michael White on politics
'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'
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Money no excuse for hampering progress
As a medic and former White House adviser, Dr Mark McClellan is a natural opinion leader on health policy. He explains his vision
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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Michael White on politics
'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on getting safety on board
'Accounts of long and complex journeys give a sense of inevitability of error'
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Michael White on politics
'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'
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Michael White on politics
We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...
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Sophia Christie on telling our story
'Formal public meetings only ever engage the sort of people who like attending formal public meetings'
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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