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Managers must dig deep for new skill set
Overcoming complex NHS management challenges - insularity, short-termism and a sometimes crippling hierarchy - will require major changes to the way managers operate, argues Nigel Edwards
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Barometer: PCTs April 2007
Primary care trust chief executives expect continuing wrangles over negotiating contracts with acute trusts, according to the latest Barometer survey.
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Name of the game is not 'no blame'
A 'no blame' culture may be useful but is not an end in itself. Frank Burns argues that evidence of real progress is needed.
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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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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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Barometer: Public Health April 2007
While confidence in sexual health services has continued its rise in the latest Barometer survey of public health directors, the most significant increase for April is public health funding for 2007-08, with the overall number up from 3.85 to 4.85 out of 10.
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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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With European law and the emphasis on work-life balance already shaking things up, what does the future hold for medical education? Three experts predict the shape of things to come
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Sophia Christie on why tenders need loving care
Community foundation trusts reproduce the organisations we disbanded five years ago
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Barometer - Mental health April 07
With the start of the new financial year comes a new record in this Barometer survey of mental health chief executives. The highest result has been recorded, with a confidence score of 9.47 for achieving break even by the end of the financial year.
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In defence of e-patient records
It hasn't been often over the last few years that I have found myself agreeing with ITRichard Granger (News, 3 May) but here here!
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Michael white on politics
Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.
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Media Watch
What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.
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Sophia Christie on treating adults like kids
Outcomes for children generate emotional engagement; those for adults are dull in their worthiness
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Michael white on politics
'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''
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Wanted: doctors to help redesign services
The need for more doctors to take on a management role has almost become a mantra, yet progress has been painfully slow. Penny Dash and Pam Garside examine the challenges and opportunities
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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Forging ahead with lessons from the future
Imagine being able to see the future and assess health needs and the repercussions of policy initiatives. Windmill 2007 did that and found some valuable pointers, as Alasdair Liddell and colleagues explain
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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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Is this really the end of under-capacity?
Financial incentives and technology mean inpatient demand and length of stay are falling, although the population is ageing. In 10 years waiting lists will be a thing of the past say Celine Druilhe and Eric Louie