All articles by Nick Edwards – Page 2
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Disaffection rules as chiefs mourn Alan Milburn's vision
Alan Milburn is the most popular New Labour health secretary, according to HSJ's survey of trust chief executives - not surprising when the same survey reveals the light that still burns brightly in people's hearts for the NHS plan.
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Breaking even must not mean trusts losing focus on money
The NHS should manage to hit its forecast position of a small surplus at the end of this year, according to this week's Department of Health figures. Not that it will be thanked or even believed. Within a few hours of the report being released on Tuesday, the protests began ...
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Top thinkers hail power of imagination
If clinicians are the likely generators of the ideas that will transform NHS performance, managers need the confidence to create the space for them to blossom. Our main feature this week looks at a group of very different ideas with the potential to make a huge difference locally and nationally.
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Criticism of Dr Foster JV masks the real story about poor data
The National Audit Office report on the Department of Health joint venture with health information provider Dr Foster does little to combat the notion that government is still feeling its way when doing deals with private companies.
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News
Time to break the circle of negativity
There's no row like a family row and the NHS family is not an exception. It has long been recognised that the NHS's own staff can often be the worst ambassadors for what is happening in the service, nationally and locally.
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DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions
If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...
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HR managers must forge new staff model
The pay and workforce draft strategy documents seen by HSJpaint a picture of just how demanding 2007 will be for the human resources profession.
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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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Sir Ian warns against complacency after 'creditable' recovery
Cutting the NHS's net deficit to £512m was a 'creditable' performance ' but cannot be used an excuse for complacency, acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers told HSJ.
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Statutory control on decisions is not enough to allay fears
All over the country, primary care trust chief executives are sitting hot and sweaty in their best suits, fighting for their future careers.
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News analysis: Sir Ian says intervene early and take tough decisions
So the deficit is smaller than the critics suggested, but NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers admits the service is not where he wants it to be. And he tells Nick Edwards that the longer trusts leave it to get back on track financially, the harder it will be
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Autonomy is key to applying lessons from private sector
'Do NHS managers really believe the 'myth' that public sector values are at odds with what Tony Blair called 'proper business management techniques'?'
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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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Maternity services are everyone's baby
Labour's most recent election manifesto promised that by 2009 all women would have choice on where and how they have their baby.
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Ten leaders who could put reform progress back on track
What do we know of the chief executives who will be running the new strategic health authorities from next week?
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Kaiser beacons shine light on NHS practice
A little like 'golden generation' of English footballers', the phrase Kaiser Permanente has all but disappeared from the health policy lexicon as a byword for innovation.
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HSJ Knowledge
The maths behind real case management
It seems a deceptively simple plan - if you can identify the relatively small number of patients likely to use acute services intensively, you can concentrate on simpler, cheaper and more effective preventative care. It was a promise first held out in work by Kaiser Pemanente in the US and ...
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London bombs: team NHS deserves better on comms
'Adversity fuels learning faster than most other things'
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Blair is urged to support foundations
Foundation trusts should be given the political backing for widespread joint ventures, mergers, 'acquisitions' with other trusts, the Foundation Trust Network has urged the prime minister.
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Much-needed campaign brought cheer in the midst of gloom
'Andy Burnham makes some thoughtful points about how managers can improve their own publicity'