All McKinsey articles – Page 7
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HSJ Knowledge
World class commissioning: quality assurance
How can PCTs be sure they are on the right path to world class commissioning? We look at the quality assurance system developed by the Department of Health to help clinicians and managers achieve their targets
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HSJ Knowledge
Performance assessment: the management battle
There is a clear link between good management and better healthcare, but NHS managers' performance lags behind the private sector
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News
PCTs dub assurance test tough but useful
Primary care trusts that tried a new test of commissioning abilities say the process was hard but helpful.
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News
FESC is thrown open without Treasury probe
The Department of Health has extended its commissioning support programme without carrying out an expected value-for-money assessment of the scheme, HSJ has learned.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced last week that the framework for procuring external support for commissioners, FESC, is now open to all primary care trusts to buy in ...
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Comment
Michael White on health budgets
Opposition spokesmen as energetic as Andrew Lansley tend to respond to breaking news rather than to make it. It's the curse of opposition. When they're in the headlines it's usually bad news. The Tory health spokesman has been making headlines.
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Comment
Michael White on the consultant of the future
I make it a policy to chuckle when I hear of some mild British institution being likened to Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia by someone who hasn't understood much history. Even law lords do it.
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News
Commissioning: FESC is not enough alone, poll suggests
HSJ's exclusive poll of one in four PCT chief executives and commissioning directors shows high levels of uncertainty over using FESC for commissioning, writes Alexis Nolan
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning: delivering better services to communities
The government plans to improve services by making trusts better commissioners. Helen Mooney explains how a framework to help PCTs access skills in commissioning from the private sector should help them ultimately deliver better fitting services to communities
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News
DoH names 14 firms that will support PCTs
Fourteen private firms have been appointed by the Department of Health to help primary care trusts commission services, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Knowledge
Stephen Ramsden on being a good chief executive
'What is the role of a chief executive? I constantly ask myself this and I firmly believe the NHS has got it wrong.'
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News
Controversial and divisive: Whitehall's own Big Brother
Some say the Department of Health's commercial directorate employs questionable methods, while others eulogise over its success in getting best value for patients. As a new chief executive takes over, Daloni Carlisle examines the controversies to date
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News
NHS Confederation rolling news: McKinsey research finds gaps in NHS management
The NHS needs to build more clinical leadership to drive improvement in productivity and quality, according to research from McKinsey that also found gaps in current management performances in acute care.
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Comment
Andrew Jones on independence day
'The conundrum is simply how to devolve day-to-day responsibility to an independent board with the benefits of efficient delivery, local decisions and avoidance of political interference'
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News
DoH to get the measure of PCTs working with private sector
The Department of Health will measure strategic health authorities on the percentage of primary care trusts in their region that use the private sector to help them commission, HSJ has learned.
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News
News analysis: Primary care chiefs: a reorganisation too far
In the second of a three-part series, Victoria Vaughan turned to primary care trust chief executives for their views on Tony Blair's legacy to the NHS. They were found angry and disheartened by continued change.
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Comment
The age of uncertainty: new Audit Commission chair speaks out
New Audit Commission chair Michael O'Higgins has a lot on his plate as he waits for the health regulatory review and oversees the transition to a new inspection era ushered in by the local government white paper
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Comment
Anna Donald on turning cogs in a blancmange
'Most doctors would struggle to conceive of a hospital in anything other than descriptive terms'
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News
Data Briefing: cost benchmarking for foundations
With many foundation trusts having to save 15 per cent over three years, the Foundation Trust Network joined consultant McKinsey to develop a benchmarking tool. This aims to enable trusts to analyse costs at healthcare resource group level.
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Comment
Pret a Porter?: what a US business guru has to teach the NHS
An academic tome about the US health system, even one co-authored by one of the world's most renowned business theorists, seems an unlikely hit for an NHS audience. But Redefining Healthcare: creating value-based competition on results, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, has caught the attention of UK policy-makers, ...
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News
Private companies to join support framework
The Department of Health is set to announce next week the list of private companies that have won a place on the government's national framework for procuring external support for commissioners, HSJ has learned.