All Leader articles – Page 25
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LeaderDH must help make integration seamless
Progress on Transforming Community Services indicates more integration is coming our way. “Vertical integration” is the method of the moment, and HSJ understands some primary care trusts feel under considerable pressure to head in that direction.
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LeaderPreferred provider policy: unions jilted, Burnham jolted, competition wins the day
Andy Burnham’s “preferred provider” policy is now in its death throes. What began as a speech aimed at ingratiating the health secretary with the unions ended in a put-down from the prime minister.
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LeaderAt last – your chance to write a manifesto
Have you ever felt so frustrated with the political parties’ health policies that you wished you could write your own? Now your chance has come.
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LeaderGordon Brown’s knee-jerk reaction to Mid Staffs is doomed to failure
Gordon Brown wants the power to strike you off.
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LeaderDream of taking on ailing trusts founders on rocks of Good Hope
With just five weeks to go before non-foundation trusts have to outline their plans for joining the elite, there are severe doubts about the government’s aspiration for foundation trusts to rescue weaker hospitals.
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LeaderFoundation independence is on a knife edge
Foundation trusts are undermining their autonomy through poor governance and accountability.
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LeaderRoyal Surrey has some explaining to do
HSJ’s revelation that Royal Surrey County Hospital was the foundation trust selling millions of pounds of drugs on the export market requires some answers from its board.
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LeaderBurying the NHS mortality row will clear the way for quality push
The Department of Health is trying to get a grip on the toxic issue of hospital standardised mortality ratios.
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LeaderPatients shortchanged in local trade-off
It is ominous when the health secretary won’t deny that a political ideal has been a “damp squib” in practice. And so to foundation trusts’ local accountability, which Andy Burnham spoke to HSJ about in an exclusive interview this week.
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LeaderSenior NHS ranks have proved their value, how can they maintain it?
HSJ this week reveals that NHS trusts with the greatest increases in the number of managers are often those that are providing the best quality services.
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LeaderIt’s crunch time, but job cuts are not the only way to save the NHS money
While politicians have been quibbling over the size and the semantics of the public sector spending cuts to come, the NHS is quietly starting to get on with them.
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LeaderNHS quality accounts must live up to the name
A year and a half after former health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review called for all NHS providers to publish quality accounts, there is still no real consensus on what they should look like.
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LeaderUrgent care: confusing jargon – we’ve got your number
The NHS is constructing its own tower of Babel.
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LeaderRegulation must boost NHS managers’ reputation, not voters’ blood lust
Plans to regulate NHS managers are gathering pace. This creates both risks and opportunities.
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LeaderThis is PCTs’ admission of failure – but everyone shares the blame
Analysis of primary care trusts’ emergency and elective admissions data, shared exclusively with HSJ by health intelligence provider CHKS, reveals that in the majority of areas, both trends are going in the wrong direction: upwards.
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LeaderFour nations: was England’s approach to the NHS on target after all?
Research published this week by the Nuffield trust has reignited the debate over the value of health service targets.
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LeaderCQC SOS: high stakes mean it is essential registration succeeds
The Care Quality Commission is in difficulty.
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LeaderTories’ tempered pledges show the effect of political realities
The Conservatives’ draft manifesto on health offers subtle changes to the party’s health policies.
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LeaderPut the brakes on NHS car park consultation
If ever there was an example of pointless Department of Health micromanagement it is the launch of the consultation paper on car parking.
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LeaderIrrational optimism is the best prescription for NHS managers
Monitor’s outgoing executive chair Bill Moyes delivered a typically pugnacious valedictory address.