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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NHS managers have a key role in local politics
'The NHS too often guards its plans for too long and too fiercely'
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Healthcheck ratings: tougher test means story must be retold
The Healthcare Commission said it would be a tougher test - and so it has proved. In the first national healthcheck ratings only two dozen organisations were rated excellent for service quality, and even fewer for their use of resources. Only half of NHS organisations met all the core standards, ...
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Silence can mean fear, not support
'One can understand why anxiety, uncertainty and fear rule'
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Petitions can a play role in local engagement
EM Forster famously gave democracy two cheers; the NHS seems rather less enthused.
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Efficiency drive lies at the heart of PM's uncompromising message
The prime minister's interview with HSJ this week poses important questions for health service managers. Among the familiar - the NHS is important, managers do a good job - are some more subtle but pointed messages.
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Don't leave unhappy medics to stew
'And there will be more points of conflict to come, such as the issue of where doctors work as opposed to where they are needed.'
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How overview and scrutiny committees can help, or hinder, NHS service redesign
Nick Edwards reports on a survey of OSC chairs about their attitudes towards NHS managers
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Healthcare inspection comes under scrutiny of its own
'Numbers do not impart wisdom in themselves, you have to learn how to select and use them'
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Surgical spirit soars in defence of the clinician
Royal College of Surgeons president Bernie Ribeiro is on a mission to stand up for education and to set up a national audit of clinical outcomes to convince commissioners of ISTCS' shortcomings
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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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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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Cliff Prior profile: 'The only thing you can't predict is where it will go'
In his new job heading a group of not-for-profit organisations, former Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior will have a key role in reshaping community services. But first he has to explain what it is all about