All articles by Michael White – Page 20
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Michael White on managers and motivation
If middle managers don't manage and nurses are poorly motivated, no amount of money can solve the NHS's problems, says Michael White
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Michael White on Brown's bottler government
What a political week! The NHS may have ended up with a better-than-expected settlement from Alistair Darling’s comprehensive spending review, but voters will not be grateful to ‘Bottler Brown’ and his mates for a while.
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Michael White on the shadow health secretary
Now that Gordon Brown has started to open up in public and chancellor Alistair Darling has put a couple of jokes into his conference speech, there is no stopping the confessional flood in politics. Even Andrew Lansley has been affected.
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Michael White on this year's Labour conference
I filed this column, from Labour's Bournemouth conference, a little later than usual this week. Gordon Brown had brought the annual leader's speech forward by 24 hours (he is in such a hurry, that man) and I wanted to catch what he had to say.
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Michael White on the conference season
'The conference experience is to go home feeling that whatever interest brought you, it is worth doing for the rest of the year'
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Michael White on panic politics
'I imagined patients queuing outside their local hospital, just like Northern Rock'
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Michael White on former health secretary Stephen Dorrell
When I rang him he said the NHS has 'gone full circle' since Labour came in and abolished the internal market in 1997
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Michael White on sheepish politics
'Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb found himself uncomfortable with the party's hostility to NHS choice'
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Michael White on politics
'No-one blew the whistle hard enough when the new processes started looking flawed'
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Mike White on politics
'Mr Blair retains a lot more drive and determination than Mr Major had (ever), but his authority is fading'
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Mike White on politics
'Handy Andy Burnham urges respect for NICE's independent experts and insists that complementary medicines (another regular bugbear) must be a matter for 'local determination'.'
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Michael White on politics
'I do not think the Walsall trio, all nice chaps, will mind if I describe them as the Old Codgers, rather than the Three Musketeers'
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Michael White on politics
'Insiders already knew that the cash figure which health officials cite includes local IT costs which replace existing local IT costs'
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Michael White on politics
My conclusion, Watson, is that it is what street urchins call a cock-up, not a conspiracy
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Michael White on YouTube politics
'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'
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Michael White on the IT programme
Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach
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Michael White: the IT programme
'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'
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Michael White on the pay round
'The tough pay round is a blatant 'clawback' and I don't think doctors can expect much sympathy'
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Michael White: media spin
'Judicial review looms on the consultation process and voters don't need media spin to feel cheated'