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Richard Bourne on rethinking the role of local government
'Local government may not be brilliant at commissioning but they are better than the NHS. They have been at it longer, they have already embraced provider plurality, commissioning, market management, best value, overview and scrutiny and public engagement'
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How to be top
What is the secret of healthcheck ratings success? Loyal staff and paying close attention to what the public expects are key ingredients, hears Lynne Greenwood, as she talks to the two acute trusts with gold-standard ratings
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Carruthers hit the right note; now follow up with clarity
'What managers need is clarity on what is expected of them and what they can expect from the centre'
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Tough decisions still need to make a case
Managers attempting to restructure services across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire strategic health authority may feel they have at last got friends in the right places.
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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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Media Watch
So began the week of blanket coverage of the British Medical Association’s annual whinge-fest conference
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Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape
'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'
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Media Watch
Everyone was looking the other way on 16 June when the Financial Timesbroke the story that the government was advertising for private sector primary care trust management services.
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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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Effective health messages
For some people, being classified as ill or disabled is not such a bad thing
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Local authority role will mark out networks as a new voice
It makes more sense for elected representatives to concern themselves with how health services are planned than how they are provided
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Will it be Independence Day 5 July 2008?
You cannot expect to get the politician off your back while keeping the consumer at arm's length
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Michael White on politics
' The DoH is officially saying nothing, but my chums tell me they have no qualms about the quality of the iSoft product'
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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Surgeons slate target culture
Workforce planning has been plunged into 'disarray' by 'recent government policies' that show an 'arrogant' disregard of the views of consultants, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro was due to say yesterday.
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Monitor settles payment by results row
A public dispute between the foundation trust and primary care trust in Bournemouth over payments under payment by results has been settled.
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Ombudsman points to failed leadership over complaints
Leadership and management failures are evident in many of the complaints against the NHS handled by the parliamentary ombudsman.