External contributors – Page 325
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The history of hospital administrators
What is the earliest reference to hospital administrators?In his book The Crusades through Arab Eyes(2006, Saqi Books) Amin Maalouf refers to the severe wounding of Buri, the leader of Damascus and son of Tughtigin, in 1131.
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Trust websites
I don't know which is more alarming about your Working Lives article ('In on the act', page 26, 28 September), the idea that some unfortunate employee of the Healthcare Commission spent 285 hours studying NHS websites, or the reported remark that scanning a website for 30 minutes is only a ...
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Electronic staff record
I was interested to read the letter from Ken Hutchinson, managing director of HR Strategic Solutions, which characterised the electronic staff record as a failed Department of Health initiative (Feedback, page 19, 28 September).
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Pace of reform
Keith Palmer argues persuasively that there is a need to maintain the momentum of reform (Opinion, page 22, 12 October) but his analysis illustrates a fundamental difficulty. He focuses largely on secondary care and the only reference to general practices is about their referrals to other services, although he does ...
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NICE and value for money
I am currently denied a particular course of medication, in the sense that NICE has determined that the NHS would not receive value for the £2,000 per month that it would cost.
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Efficiency indicators do not tell the story behind the numbers
The comprehensive spending review is no longer the distant event it once seemed - the coming financial squeeze makes a numbers game out of the next 18 months or so.
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An online service tailored to your needs
This week, HSJgets personal. Today we have launched a new online service free to registered users of the website, designed to bring you the most relevant content direct to your desktop.
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Your Humble Servant: regime change
‘We need to start stockpiling resources for a long fight now. We have started buying up poster sites and newspaper advertising space to deny it to the opposition.’
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Sue Slipman on foundation trusts and the healthcheck ratings
'Having strengthened their financial management without comprising service quality, foundation trusts are now in a position to step up their investment in providing first class patient care'
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Outspoken Wanless returns to judge a dream deferred
It comes as no surprise that Sir Derek Wanless believes that the promise laid out in his seminal 2002 report is becoming a dream deferred.
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Emma Dent on the unhealthy English
'I knew that sales of Superkings are kept afloat by our friends in the North, but was hoping that, these days, the death rate would not differ so much from north to south.'
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Tim Gilling on why scrutiny committees will become more important
'We should be encouraged by evidence that shows a collaborative, improvement-driven approach'
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Robert Greene and Paul Ray on foundation finances
Patient choice presents particular challenges for foundation trusts, so good revenue forecasting is needed, say Robert Greene and Paul Ray
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Cameron speech: Tories elbow their way to the front on independence agenda
'Strategic health authorities will be less happy with the inference that they will become a local arm of the Department of Health, much reduced in power.'
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Comment: Win some and lose some - our verdict on the conferences
So as this year's party conferences recede over the horizon, who had a good or bad time of it?
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David Woodhead on gardening for the mind
'She was clear that picking up a spade and plunging it into the ground enabled her to channel some of the anger she had felt the previous week at work.'
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Hilary Thomas on talking about illness
'Two messages from old friends began 'What terrible news about your health' and 'Not good news!' and then switched subject in the next line'
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Emma Dent on slim pickings
Overhearing 17-year-olds fixating on how much weight you can gain and still look 'normal' has made me distinctly uncomfortable of late
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David Mobbs on health inequalities and the market
Nuffield Hospitals' David Mobbs argues that those who rail against the market stand to make health inequalities worse