All Leader articles – Page 3
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What Matt Hancock’s arrival means for the NHS
The new health and social care secretary is keen to make his mark quickly, and has much to get to grips with, says Alastair McLellan.
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Jeremy Hunt: a ‘good’ health secretary?
Jeremy Hunt’s tenure as health secretary - the longest there has been - has come to an end. HSJ editor Alastair Mclellan reflects on his achievements and missteps.
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The funding deal is done, but a crucial few months follow
How far the NHS’s new funding deal will stretch will be shaped by some important decisions in the next five months.
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How much will the government give the NHS for its 70th birthday?
Before the NHS turns 70 on 5 July, the government will have revealed its broad ambitions for the “sustainable long term plan”.
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The nation's love affair with the NHS is endangering its health
Asked recently to reflect on his record as prime minister, Tony Blair chose the failure to tackle inequality as his greatest oversight.
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Why the CQC could inadvertently threaten NHS funding
Ted Baker, the chief inspector of hospitals, recently presented the latest Care Quality Commission inspection results to trust chief executives at a meeting organised by NHS Improvement and NHS England. His overall conclusion was that quality at NHS trusts was improving.
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The nine tests that will prove if the government is serious about NHS reform
A year after the publication of the Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens set out five tests for George Osborne as he prepared the 2015 spending review, which the NHS England chief hoped would fund his vision.
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Why the NHS England and NHS Improvement integration plans matter
The convoluted nature of the NHS’s national oversight is the product of the bungled Lansley reforms.
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Updated: May makes a bid for her place in NHS history
Time will tell if Theresa May’s intervention buys her a place alongside Thatcher and Blair in NHS history, writes Alastair McLellan.
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Innovation is vital to the NHS's sustainability and future
Alastair McLellan on how the HSJ Partnership Awards winners and those shortlisted have accepted the challenge to help the NHS deliver during a period of intense pressure
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Hunt acts fast to stop Liverpool becoming his Mid Staffs
This is the first time Jeremy Hunt has had to deal with a care scandal that both feels eerily like Mid Staffordshire, and that happened on the Conservatives’ watch.
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A very NHS compromise
The planning guidance is based on a new compromise between Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt, but it underlines the fundamental problems afflicting the NHS, writes Alastair McLellan.
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What 2018 will bring for NHS patients, staff and leaders
The NHS has known grimmer years than the one in which it will mark its 70th birthday, but probably not one that will feel as tough.
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Revealed: The surprising answer to fixing the NHS's A&E crisis
This year’s HSJ100 highlighted the Mexican standoff between Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt over whether the NHS had enough money to deliver on its priorities – particularly A&E access and elective waiting times.
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'Which of the children do we shoot first?' - the budget leaves the NHS with harsh choices
The government has a very clear ambition for the £1.6bn additional funding allocated to the NHS for 2018-19. £1bn is to be used to arrest the decline in elective waiting times and to begin to reduce the waiting list; £600m will be employed to make sure the NHS meets the ...
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Pay rises are not the priority for the NHS
This will not be the most popular of HSJ editorials. There is no doubt that most NHS staff deserve an inflation matching, even busting, pay raise – but there are also good reasons why they should not receive one.
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Grenfell: There but for the grace of God goes the NHS
The terrible fire at Grenfell Tower will be a defining moment in British public life just as “Baby P”, the Hillsborough disaster or the killing of Stephen Lawrence caused a major recalibration of our attitudes to social work, public safety and institutional racism.
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STPs may soon face a wave of judicial reviews
We live in an era of political populism, whether it be “Brexit means Brexit” or “a new kind of politics”.
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Humbled Tories will still take risks on NHS reform
Today’s election result has made a fool of Theresa May. But while expectations have been utterly confounded, we continue to have a just about viable Conservative government, with a programme resembling something like status quo for the health service.
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Revealed: the Tory minister who could take Jeremy Hunt’s job
The NHS section of the Tory Manifesto begins with a statement which could have happily been penned by Jeremy Corbyn.