All Mike Farrar articles – Page 2
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NewsExclusive: Confed finds venture capitalists to fund innovation
The NHS Confederation is working with a venture capitalist firm to seek private backing for innovations in the NHS.
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News'Close hospitals' to save the NHS, say managers, doctors and patients
The NHS faces financial ruin and is no longer sustainable in its current form, a collective of leading medical, leadership and patient organisations has warned.
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NewsFarrar issues rallying cry
The NHS has got to raise its game and get away from thinking that patching together the service is enough to keep it going, Mike Farrar has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeA strategy for maximising hospital capacity
Using home care services to reduce emergency admissions
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: Community engagement in Mid Devon
Examining the future of Tiverton and District Hospital after a meeting between commissioners and the public
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CommentMichael White: a gloomy picture of A&E
The inevitable result of soaring demand and dwindling resources
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NewsWho could succeed Sir David as NHS England chief executive?
Speculation about potential successors to Sir David Nicholson as chief executive of NHS England has focued on 10 names.
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NewsHealthcare leaders fear 'unintended consequences' of hasty Francis legislation
Senior figures have warned of “unintended consequences” of rushed legislation in response to the Francis report.
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NewsFarrar warns over speed of service change
The NHS has been too slow to develop into a “truly modern and efficient service”, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsFarrar bureaucracy review: everything's in play
Plans to cut bureaucracy in the NHS by a third are “ambitious but realistic”, the man leading the government’s post-Francis paperwork review has told HSJ.
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NewsPublic blame managers for Mid Staffs, survey finds
More than half the public blame NHS managers for the disaster of poor care at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, according to a survey shared exclusively with HSJ.
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Competition investigations spell problems for mergers
Trusts’ merger plans are likely to be blocked if they cannot prove they are the only way to improve services, new advice from Monitor suggests.
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CommentPodcast: Mike Farrar on why patients should be at the heart of solution
Mike Farrar responds to the Francis report
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CommentVideo: Mike Farrar reacts to Francis
NHS leaders must be more open with patients “than ever before”
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NewsSelbie: 'The NHS is not the same as health'
The chief executive of Public Health England has urged a fundamental rethink of how illness and wellbeing are perceived, stating: “The NHS is not the same as health.”
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NewsNHS changes vow over Mid Staffs inquiry
A public inquiry into regulators’ failure to prevent routine neglect at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trustl must lead to a more “patient-centred” health service, the NHS Confederation has urged.
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SupplementsBusiness as well as clinical excellence: A roundtable debate
Should the NHS be more like Tesco? How much should clinicians influence commercial decisions? Does the service have the right skills, notably in procurement? Claire Read reports from the HSJ roundtable on business practices
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat Francis will mean for boards
Robina Shah talks to Mike Farrar about a post-Francis NHS
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NewsCameron pledges to cap individuals' social care costs
PM pledges to cap care costs, as proposed by Dilnot commission
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NewsWarning on patient care 'rationing'
The government should take “a more active interest” in ensuring that patient care is not being rationed, a report suggests.