John Oldham
Sir John Oldham is national clinical lead for quality and Productivity at the Department of Health and a member of the National Quality Board.
CommentCapitated budgets are a good deal for long term conditions
With the Year of Care capitation tariff attracting global interest, capitation budgets are becoming a mainstream need for seamless care of patients with long term conditions
CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
CommentIn defence of David Nicholson
It is essential Sir David stays to handle the NHS’s current transition
CommentThe healthcare arms race
It is blinkered to assume the best innovations come from developed nations
Comment'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
The turnaround of one factory into an efficient, clean, collaborative and effective faciility should shame healthcare organisations into doing more to make sure sustainability in the NHS becomes less an ideal and more a way of working, writes Sir John Oldham.